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By Ben Blanchard KUNMING, China, Nov 18 (Reuters) – China and the United States wrapped up a three-day humanitarian relief military drill on Friday, looking past simmering tensions over the disputed South China Sea and the deployment of an advanced U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea. The exercises, held in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, come a month after a U.S. navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) – Up to 30,000 people have been displaced by violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, half of them over the course of last weekend when dozens of people died in clashes with the military, the UN said Friday. Troops have poured into a strip of land along the Bangladesh border, an area which is largely home to the stateless Muslim Rohingya minority, since coordinated attacks on police posts last month. The army this […]
(Eagle News) — A Filipino politician on Friday, November 18, urged the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate and suspend Senator Leila de Lima, whose name had been repeatedly mentioned by several witnesses who have testified regarding her connections to the illegal drug trade. Greco Belgica, a former Manila City councilor, filed a formal complaint with the office of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales and asked her to suspend the lady senator for 90-days as the investigation on her alleged […]
Dumating na sa Lima, Peru si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte para kanyang pagdalo sa 24th APEC Leaders’ Summit. Bandang alas-dose kwarenta y singko ng tanghali oras sa Pilipinas, o kaya alas onse kwarenta y singko ng gabi sa Peru, lumapag ang eroplanong sinakyan ng delegasyon ng Pangulong Duterte. Una rito, tiniyak ni Pangulong Duterte na susulitin nito ang malaking gastusin sa kanyang biyahe sa Lima, Peru para dumalo sa APEC Leaders Summit. Sinabi ni Pangulong Duterte […]
Ikinatuwa ng mga taga Ilocos Norte ang naganap na paglilibing kay dating Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos sa Libingan ng mga Bayani. Ayon sa kanila, maraming nagawa sa bansa si Marcos noong nabubuhay pa kung kayat marapat lamang na bigyan ito ng marangal na libing. Naniniwala rin sila na hudyat na ito ng pagkakaroon ng kapayapaan sa bansa. (Weller Reyes,Ilocos Norte EBC Correspondent)
(Eagle News) — Suspected big time drug lord, Kerwin Espinosa, will execute an affidavit and help government identify all those involved in the illegal drugs trade — including their protectors — in Eastern Visayas, even without him being placed under the government’s witness protection program (WPP) Upon his arrival from Abu Dhabi, his lawyers said that Espinosa is willing to tell everything that he knows in his affidavit. Meanwhile, Philippine National Police Chief Director General […]
(Eagle News) — The spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philipines said the preparations for the burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos have long been done, and that it was only continued after the Supreme Court finally allowed the burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. AFP spokesperson Restituto Padilla said the military just followed procedures since they received no information of any pending motion for reconsideration about the issue with the high […]
(Eagle News) — Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos appealed for the public’s understanding and apologized for the Marcos family’s decision to bury her father, the late President Ferdinand Marcos, at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, in strictly private ceremonies that had not been previously announced. “Ako po’y humihingi ng dispensa at pang-unawa sa naging pasya ng aking pamilya na gawing payak, pribado at taimtim ang paglibing sa aking ama upang hindi na masaling ang mga […]
(Eagle News)– Ten suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits and four Army soldiers were killed during a clash in Patikul, Sulu Friday morning, November 8. In a statement, the Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command said troops of the Army’s 35th Infantry Battalion under Joint Task Force Sulu engaged about 150 Abu Sayyaf men under Radullan Sahiron at Sitio Dyundangan in Barangay Buhanginan around 10:20 a.m. The clash lasted for 45 minutes. Aside from four killed, […]
(Eagle News) — Ten days after the Supreme Court’s controversial November 8 ruling, the Marcoses buried the late President Ferdinand Marcos in very private and tightly guarded ceremonies at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, catching the country by surprise, most especially the anti-Marcos activists. With no prior announcement about the event, the petitioners who had earlier asked the Supreme Court to stop the planned burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, are now indignant […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Alleged drug lord Kerwin Espinosa apologized to President Rodrigo Duterte and promised the President that he will expose all of those who were involved in the illegal drug trade.
