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Senate leadership is asking Senator Osmeña’s committee report on the joint resolution granting the President emergency powers to avert the energy crisis in 2015. Senator Osmeña remains adamant that there is no need to give the President emergency powers.
The Malacañang assured the public regarding their concerns on the President’s emergency powers, saying that said powers are laid down in the law and would be used carefully by the President to avert the power crisis.
The United States of America sent $750, 000 or 33 million pesos to aid the victims of typhoon “Ruby”.
The Department of Agriculture warned vegetable vendors who will sell vegetables at a higher price this holiday season. Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said that there is an ample supply of vegetables, so there is no reason to raise the price of vegetables in the market.
Several cities declare a ban on the use of fireworks in their territories.
By Rowena dela Fuente (Eagle News Service) BUSAN, South Korea, Dec. 12 (ENS) — South Korea underscored its continuing official development assistance (ODA) to the Philippines, as it vowed to provide ODA loans for more development projects in the provinces. The position was made by South Korean President Park Geun-Hye during her bilateral meeting with President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, at the sidelines of the 25th Commemorative Summit of the Association of South East Asian Nation […]
PAGASA is currently monitoring a low pressure area near eastern Mindanao. Although said LPA is still outside the Philippine area of responsibility, PAGASA said that it may enter the country within 24 hours.
According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the death toll due to typhoon “Ruby” now stands at nineteen, with more than 900 injured and 3 million displaced by the said typhoon.
Every month of December, we celebrate Human Rights Month. To gain better understanding of your rights as a citizen, here is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly of 1948.
By Rowena dela Fuente (Eagle News Service) Busan, South Korea, Dec. 11 (ENS) — South Korean President Park Geun-Hye today pledged her country’s commitment to help the Philippines recover from the devastation brought about by Typhoon Ruby which hit Eastern Visayas, Southern Luzon and some Mindanao provinces. During the bilateral meeting between President Aquino and President Park today (Dec. 11), the South Korean leader expressed her sympathies and condolences to the families affected by Typhoon Ruby. […]
(Eagle News Service) — Iligan City Rep. Vicente Belmonte survived an ambush attempt Thursday afternoon, Dec. 11, near Laguindingin Airport in Misamis Oriental which killed four of his escorts and staffmembers. Belmonte suffered injuries, along with two other companions. They are now being treated at a local hospital in Laguindingan. According to Police Superintendent Bernard Mendoza, spokesperson of the Police regional office, the ambush happened around 1:45 p.m. The still unidentified assailants opened fire on […]
Iligan representative Vicente Belmonte was wounded in an ambush that killed four people in Misamis Oriental.
