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(Eagle News) — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte has offered a P2 million reward for anyone who can give the names and the whereabouts of the suspects in the deadly Sept 2 bombing in a night market in Roxas District in Davao City. The mayor said that P1 million would be given for anyone who can give the name of the suspects, and another P1 million for those who can hand the suspects alive to […]
QUEZON CITY, Sept. 5 — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) firmly believes that death penalty will be a strong deterrent against all drug-related offenders in the Philippines. “Manufacturers, smugglers, pushers and all the more coddlers and protectors of illegal drugs in the country, both foreign and domestic, who were proven guilty in court, deserve nothing more than capital punishment,” said PDEA Director General Isidro S. Lapeňa. “Harsher penalties must be dealt for all drug traffickers […]
DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) — Philippines police Sunday were searching for three people wanted for questioning over the bombing of a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown blamed on an Islamic militant group. The blast, which tore through a bustling market in the heart of Davao city on Friday, killed at least 14 people and led to the president imposing a “state of lawlessness” in the country. The head of Davao police on Sunday described […]
By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton PAWNEE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in Oklahoma rattled the area northwest of Pawnee on Saturday, fuelling growing concern about seismic activity linked to energy production, a federal agency said. The magnitude 5.6 quake, which was felt from South Dakota to Texas, prompted the closure of some 35 wastewater disposal wells in the area, officials said. It shallow quake struck 9 miles (14 km) northwest of […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Bangladesh hanged a wealthy tycoon and top financial backer of its largest Islamist party late Saturday for war crimes, dealing a massive blow to the group’s ambitions in the Muslim-majority nation. Mir Quasem Ali, a key leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed after being convicted by a controversial war crimes tribunal for offences committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan. The 63-year-old was hanged at the Kashimpur high […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine authorities on Saturday said the Abu Sayyaf, a local Islamic militant group notorious for kidnapping foreigners, was responsible for a deadly night market bombing that killed at least 14 people. Here are five key questions and answers about the Abu Sayyaf: – Who are they? – The group is a radical offshoot of a Muslim separatist insurgency that has claimed more than 120,000 lives in the south of the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited on Saturday (September 3) the hospitals where the wounded victims of the deadly blast in a night market in Davao City were being treated and assured their relatives that the government will cover all their medical expenses. Duterte’s expression was that of concern, pain and extreme sadness as he consoled the relatives of the injured victims being treated at the San Pedro Hospital and Davao Medical Center. […]
By Caesar Vallejos EBC Correspondent Businessmen, through the statement of the Makati Business Club (MBC), strongly condemned the blast that killed 14 people and injured 67 others at the Roxas night market in Davao City calling it a horrific act of terror. “This act of cowardice, which targeted the lives of innocent civilians and sought to foster fear in people, has no place in any society,” the statement said. Earlier reports mention that the Abu […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP)–Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte cancelled Saturday his first foreign trip to Brunei following a deadly blast in his home town, his spokesman said. An improvised explosive device tore through a night market in the southern city of Davao on Friday, killing at least 14 people and leaving another 67 injured. Duterte, who was in Davao at the time of the bombing, visited the blast site and has been monitoring the situation there with his […]
(Reuters) — Hangzhou is looking like a ghost town, as authorities have closed down shops and ramped up security checks to ensure its first-ever G20 summit passes off perfectly As of Friday (September 3), highways around the G20 venue were virtually empty except for a few cars. Reuters journalists were warned by men who identified themselves as “neighbourhood watch volunteers” not to film in a residential area not far from the G20 venue. In […]
(Reuters) — Laos is set to host the annual ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and East Asia summits that will bring together state leaders from over 20 nations and international organisations next week in the capital, Vientiane, with maritime security and cross-border trade expected to top the agenda at the annual meetings. Ahead of the meetings, newly-elected Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte said he had no intention of bringing up the International Court ruling […]
