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MANILA, Philippines – According to Senator Koko Pimentel, the government should learn a lesson regarding the violence in the Kidapawan crisis. The senator made said statement after the fact-finding hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Pimentel added that during emergencies like the one that sparked the Kidapawan crisis, local government units and the national government should respond in a timely and urgent manner to avert a crisis. (Eagle News Service […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – According to the University of the Philippines – Diliman, it received the first batch of computers, projectors and printers donated to the said university in response to the fire that damaged the UP Faculty Center. Said donations will be used for the needs of the Colleges of Arts and Letters, Social Sciences and Philosophy. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection, the fire caused damages worth Php 3M. (Eagle News Service […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Senator JV Ejercito and his co-accused asked the Sandiganbayan 6th Division to dismiss the technical malversation case filed against them due to the lack of the element of application of said public funds in a purpose that is not provided in the law. His co-accused filed a separate motion to dismiss said case due to lack of probable cause. The Sandiganbayan 6th Division asked the prosecution to answer said motion within […]
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III and Prince Albert II of Monaco on Thursday witnessed the signing of the Philippines-Monaco Framework Agreement for Cooperation that will form the basis for future cooperation between the two countries. The Agreement, which covers such areas of cooperation as economic, scientific, humanitarian, and disaster risk reduction and management partnership and environmental protection, was signed in Malacañang Palace by Foreign Affairs Secretary Jose Rene Almendras for the Philippines and Minister […]
LAS Vegas, United States (AFP) — Twenty-one years after clambering through the ropes for his first professional fight, Manny Pacquiao will make the long walk to the ring for what could well be the final time on Saturday in Las Vegas. It will complete one of the most vivid rags-to-riches journeys in a sport that is famous for them, an odyssey which has taken him from a $20 purse to a reported $20 million payday […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Honda has confirmed another death involving a Takata airbag, bringing the global total to 11 fatalities in a scandal that has set off the biggest auto recall in US history. The latest death came last week when a 17-year-old Texas teenager died from injuries sustained after her 2002 Honda Civic collided with another car, activating the defective airbag. Honda’s US unit on Wednesday confirmed the death, which is the 10th […]
Senators began their own investigation as to what really happened during the bloody dispersal operation of 5,000 farmers who barricaded the Cotabato-Davao highway in Kidapawan City wherein three farmers died and scores injured.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island of java late Wednesday, US seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued. The earthquake hit at 9:45 pm local time (1445 gmt), the us geological survey said, some 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of the city of Banjar in West Java, at a depth of 35 kilometers. Indonesia sits on the pacific “Ring of Fire” where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity […]
The country’s parliament approved a new prime minister, after a 10-year reign of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Former bureaucrat and legislator Nguyen Xuan Phuc has been handed the challenge of maintaining the momentum of one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies.
Organizers and participating chefs for the Madrid Fusion Manila 2016 paid a courtesy call on President Benigno S. Aquino III as the country hosts the world’s most important gastronomy event. Among those present during the courtesy call in Malacañang include Spanish ambassador to the Philippines Luis Calvo, Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez, and Spain’s Secretary Of State for Latin American Affairs and International Development Cooperation Jesus Gracia, Administrator Miele Esteban of the Gastronomy and Special Projects, […]
China has begun operating a lighthouse on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea near which a US warship sailed last year to challenge China’s territorial claims. China’s transport ministry held a “completion ceremony”, marking the start of operations at the 55-meter (180-ft) high lighthouse on Subi reef, where construction began in October, according to state news agency Xinhua. Subi reef is where the US guided missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed within […]
MANILA, Philippines – Relieved Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) commander, Director Getulio Napeñas Jr., expressed his misgivings regarding the case filed against him by the Office of Ombudsman which held him administratively liable regarding the Mamasapano encounter. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
