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(Eagle News)– Senator Leila de Lima on Friday (December 2) skipped the first preliminary probe of the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the four complaints filed against her in connection with the illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). De Lima has earlier announced that she won’t show up, since her presence was not really required. She said she would just send a representative who will obtain the copies of complaints. De Lima sent her staff, Romeo Siazon, to […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has asked both chambers of Congress to speed up its work regarding the government’s planned shift to federalism. The Chief Executive stressed his vow to sacrifice his current post just to give way to a federal form of government. “Ako, I am offering my term. Sabi ko nga, ma-craft lang iyan. Wala kayong problema sa akin,” Duterte said in a speech delivered at the third Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Social Security Services (SSS) on Thursday, December 1 announced that it has released Php 7.2 billion for the 13th month pension of its members. SSS officer-in-charge of benefits administration division Normita Doctor said that the members can now avail of the 13th month pension starting December 2016. “Along with the early release of 13th month pensions, by the end of this year pensioners will also get their regular monthly pension […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – National Capital Region Police Office Director Chief Superintendant Oscar Albayalde said that the public has no reason to fear the issuance of terror alert all over the country. In an interview with Radyo Agila, Albayalde said the terror alert only aims to put the police on security alert. https://youtu.be/u9cfcQL2EKg
(Eagle News)– New United States ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim arrived in Manila on Thursday (December 1) night and expressed his optimism on the relation between the two countries. “I’m very eager to get started, very much looking forward to meeting as many Filipinos as possible and visiting many beautiful places in the Philippines. And I know that my staff at the embassy has arranged a very busy schedule for me,” Kim told reporters […]
(Reuters)– China’s coastguard has rescued Filipino fishermen from a capsized boat near a disputed West Philippine Sea shoal, a Philippine Coast Guard official said Friday (December 2), underlining the fast thawing of ties between two countries long at odds over sovereignty. A Philippine Coast Guard vessel was navigating choppy waters to collect the two fishermen from the Chinese ship, in what would be the first time in four years both countries’ coastguards were in close […]
DAVAO CITY, Nov. 2 —A top official of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has said that President Rodrigo R. Duterte does not distinguish between friend or foe and is willing to go to great lengths to push forward the peace process in Mindanao. “Our President is a president for all. Whether you are a rebel [or] are a plain civilian … he is a president for the 100 million plus […]
DAVAO CITY, Dec. 2 – President Rodrigo Duterte asked Muslim local leaders for unity to attain peace and development in Mindanao as he pushed for the adoption of federalism in the country which he said could bring national stability. In his message during his attendance to the Third Local Government Unit summit of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on Thursday, Dec. 1, he said there has been suffering because there seems to be no […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck southeast Peru on Thursday, damaging some homes and roads but causing no casualties, the National Civil Defense Institute (INDECI) said. The quake in the Puno region hit at 5:40 pm local time (2240 GMT), its epicenter 58 kilometers (36 miles) from the town of Lampa and at a depth of 30 kilometers, according to the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP). “Eight collapsed homes are reported in […]
by Adam PLOWRIGHT Guy JACKSON PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Francois Hollande dramatically announced Thursday he would not seek re-election next April at the end of his five-year term as he bowed to historic low approval ratings. The withdrawal means the 62-year-old Socialist will be the first president of France’s fifth republic, founded in 1958, to quit after just one term. “I have decided that I will not be a candidate,” Hollande said in […]
JUBA, South Sudan (AFP) – UN human rights experts on Thursday said “ethnic cleansing” was under way in South Sudan after visiting the country where violence has soared since a peace deal collapsed in July. “There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan using starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages; everywhere we went across this country we heard villagers saying they are ready to shed […]
(Reuters) Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64, became Thailand’s new king on Thursday after he accepted an invitation from parliament to succeed his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October. King Bhumibol, 88, was widely loved and regarded as a pillar of stability during decades of political turbulence and rapid development in the Southeast Asian nation. Prince Vajiralongkorn, who will be known as King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, according to a statement released by parliament’s […]
