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(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday, March 1, slammed as “revolting” what he said were the insertions and realignments being done by some lawmakers to the P3.7-trillion national budget for 2019 even after the bill was ratified by both houses of Congress. He said this was as some lawmakers felt “anxiety” for the slashing of the pork barrel allocations of at least 60 colleagues after the bicameral ratification of the proposed national budget. “I have it on […]
(Eagle News)—-A Department of Justice panel has found probable cause to indict former Health Secretary Janette Garin over the deaths of children who were administered the controversial vaccine Dengvaxia. In a statement, the DOJ panel said it also found probable cause to indict several Department of Health officials, and officials of Sanofi Pasteur, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and the Food and Drug Administration on the same charges. The panel recommended that eight […]
(Eagle News)–A Manila court has ruled the Coast Guard officers accused in the death of a Taiwanese fisherman off Batanes in 2013 should go to trial. In denying the motion for reconsideration filed by Commander Arnold dela Cruz, Seaman Second Class Nicky Aurelio, and Seamen First Class Edrando Aguila, Mhelvyn Bendo II, Andy Gibb Golfo, Sonny Masangkay, Henry Solomon and Richard Corpuz, Branch 15 said their arguments against the homicide charges filed against them for the […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday, March 1, said it was exhausting all “diplomatic avenues and legal remedies” to save a Filipina who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia. The DFA issued the statement after the Saudi Court of Appeals affirmed the sentence of the Filipina on Thursday, Feb. 28, for killing her employer in Makkah three years ago. The Filipina, who was a minor when she was deployed to Saudia Arabia in […]
by Sebastien BERGER Agence France Presse HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — North Korea on Friday promised further negotiations with the US, as both sides sought to hold open the door while staking out their positions after their Hanoi summit spectacularly failed to produce a nuclear deal. The meeting between the North’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump broke up in disarray Thursday, with a signing ceremony canceled and no joint communique issued. Each […]
(Eagle News)—-A Syrian national was arrested after he allegedly tried to enter the country using a Kiribati passport, the Bureau of Immigration said on Friday, March 1. BI Port Operations Chief Grifton Medina said Al Naasan Ibrahim was arrested upon his arrival from Malaysia at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Feb. 22. This was after he allegedly admitted to being Syrian, and to merely paying US$5,000 to a Jordanian national based in Siem Reap, Cambodia […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte still has no specific plans to visit the United States so far. When asked on Friday, March 1, about whether Duterte would finally make the visit, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said “specific dates will have to wait for the end of the elections.” Locsin noted the President, after all, was busy endorsing his candidates for the polls slated in May. In any case, he said he has already conveyed […]
(Eagle News)–Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. believes there is no need to review the Mutual Defense Treaty to ensure the United States will come to its aid should China attack the Asian country over the dispute in the South China Sea. “In vagueness lies the best deterrence,” Locsin said in a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday, March 1. “We are very […]
(Eagle News)—-A Manila court has reset the arraignment of Rappler’s executive editor Maria Ressa and former reporter Reynaldo Santos for cyber libel. Instead of Friday, March 1, Branch 46 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa rescheduled the same to April 12 at 8:30 a.m., and ordered the prosecution to comment on Ressa’s and Santos’ motion to quash within 10 days. In their motion filed early this week, Ressa and Santos argued the information against them does not cite an […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will appoint “in the next few days” an undersecretary who will supervise the citizens’ complaint hotline 8888. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea made the revelation as he announced government plans to create another office that will monitor the public’s complaints, and to incorporate a text messaging system to the current setup in an interview over dzmm radio. “Talagang tututukan na yan because dati, it was under an office of a director..,” Medialdea […]
(Eagle News) — Twelve people were hurt after an elevator in a building in Makati malfunctioned early Friday morning. A dzbb report said the 12 people, mostly call center agents, sustained minor injuries after the elevator in the PBCom building on Ayala Ave. plummeted from the 52nd floor to the 38th floor around 1 a.m. Upon reaching the 38th floor, the elevator’s emergency brake was activated but its doors refused to open on the 12th […]
(Eagle News) –The country’s economic managers assured farmers they would have the necessary assistance to protect them from the possible adverse effects of the lifting of the quantitative restrictions on rice imports under the Rice Tariffication Law. Budget Benjamin Diokno said at least P5 billion has been released under the 2018 national budget for this purpose. He said this was apart from the P5 billion in Special Allotment Release Order issued to the Department of […]
