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(Eagle News)– Red and yellow alerts are in effect over Luzon grid today, June 20. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines said the red alert, which means there is a generation deficiency, will be in effect from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. It said a yellow alert, which means reserves do not meet the minimum requirements, is hoisted from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., from 11 a.m. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, June 19, told soldiers not to surrender to the Abu Sayyaf if they find themselves in dire straits in combat. Duterte said he has seen, after all, how some soldiers who gave themselves up would be decapitated by the kidnap-for-ransom group and would “only be treated like dogs” in the group’s camp. “So do not ever surrender, especially that part of the warzone sa Jolo. Kasi ho […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies will prevail today, June 20, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. Metro Manila will have cloudy skies to partly cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to severe thunderstorms are possible. Luzon, VIsayas and Mindanao will have light to moderate rains and slight to moderate coastal waters.
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday, June 19, said the office of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. in Ilocos Region is housed in a building owned by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III. Duque is ex-officio chair of PhilHealth. According to Lacson, he has a copy of the contract of lease for the building in Tapuac district in Dagupan City in Pangasinan. “If this is not conflict of interest I don’t know what is,” […]
(Eagle News) — For Senator Richard Gordon, the issue is not whether or not the hitting by a Chinese vessel of a Filipino fishing boat near Recto Bank was accidental. According to Gordon, “the issue is people are not supposed to be abandoned at sea,” which means Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang, for him, missed the point. “The crux of the matter is you left the fishermen in peril of the sea. Under the […]
(Eagle News) — Two Filipinos were killed and three others were injured in a train and car accident in New Zealand on Wednesday, June 19. Ambassador to New Zealand Jesus Domingo did not reveal the identities of the dead and those injured in the incident in the Bay of Plenty along Pongakawa School Road near Te Puke town, but told Eagle News New Zealand bureau that they were carpenters who had just arrived in the country […]
(Eagle News) — A suspected Pakistani terrorist was arrested in Zamboanga City on Tuesday, June 18. Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said on Wednesday, June 19, that Waqar Ahmad, 36, a suspected member of Daulah Islamiyah, was nabbed for violating immigration laws by working as a storekeeper in his uncle’s appliance store. The arrest was made possible after a surveillance of the store. “He will be deported as his presence here is inimical to national security,” […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, June 19, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte over his stance in the Recto Bank incident that saw a Chinese vessel hitting a Filipino fishing boat and abandoning it. “Yan ang problema. Pagdating sa China, consistent siya, naduduwag siya,” De Lima said in a brief ambush interview at Branch 34 of the Metropolitan Trial Court, where she attended a hearing on her disobedience to summons case. Asked if […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has approved the creation of two special investigating teams to probe the killings of three political activists in the Bicol region. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete, also the Department of Justice spokesperson, said Guevarra made the approval on Tuesday, June 18, a day after Neptali Moraga, former Bayan Muna Bicol regional coordinator, was killed in Naga, Camarines Sur. On June 15, Ryan Hubilla and Nelly Bagasala, alleged members of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte already has a preferred Speaker of the next House of Representatives. A Radyo Agila source said the President made the decision in a meeting with neophyte congressmen in the Palace on Tuesday, June 18. The source, however, refused to divulge the name of Duterte’s choice, saying it would be relayed to Senator Manny Pacquiao, who was chosen by the PDP-Laban party, of which the President is chair, to make […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Wednesday, June 19, slammed Senator Panfilo Lacson’s comment the Mutual Defense Treaty could be invoked in the Recto Bank incident that saw a Chinese vessel hitting a Filipino fishing vessel and abandoning it. In a radio interview, Panelo said in the first place, there was “no act of aggression” so far. “Hindi pa natin alam kung ano bang nangyari doon, is it intentional? Assuming na intentional, ang […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines is celebrating the 158th birth anniversary of its national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, on Wednesday, June 19. Well, Google is celebrating it, too.
