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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure providing for bigger discount rates for political advertisements during the elections. Under the new law, which amends the Fair Election Act, candidates and parties can get discounts 30 percent to 50 percent for television, from 20 percent to 40 percent for radio and 10 percent for print. The campaign period or national and party-list candidates kicked off on Tuesday, Feb. 12. It will end on […]
Other bills signed, others vetoed (Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the rice tariffication bill into law, Senate President Tito Sotto said. The signing came after the President met with various rice traders who had been opposed to the measure that essentially allows the market to be flooded with cheaper rice imports for as long as they are imposed a tax. Under the measure, rice traders can import an unlimited quantity of rice for as long […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Feb. 15, urged parents to have their children vaccinated for measles. The President made the brief statement over PTV-4, amid a measles outbreak declared in some parts of the country, including Metro Manila, where the number of measles cases reached 196 from Jan. 1 to 19. “Mga kababayan, dumadami ang kaso ng tigdas at ang komplikasyon nito ay mamatay ka. Sa mga anak natin, bakuna lamang ang […]
(Eagle News) — The former Rappler reporter who, along with the online news outfit’s executive editor Maria Ressa, faces a cyber libel complaint over a 2012 article published on the news site, posted bail on Friday, Feb. 15. Reynaldo Santos. Jr. voluntarily surrendered and posted a P100,000 bail before the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46. The cyber libel charges against Santos, Ressa and Rappler Inc. were filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng, who was described […]
(Eagle News) — The Judicial and Bar Council has shortlisted 13 candidates for the associate justice post left vacant by Lucas Bersamin, now the Chief Justice, in the Supreme Court. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, ex-officio JBC member, said Court of Appeals justices Edgardo delos Santos, Amy Lazaro-Javier, Eduardo Peralta, Ricardo Rosario, Japar Dimaampao, Ramon Garcia, Henri Inting, Jhosep Lopez, and Mario Lopez; Court of Tax Appeals Presiding Justice Roman Del Rosario; Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang; Court Administrator Jose […]
(Eagle News)–The National Press Club on Friday, Feb. 15, expressed dismay over the manner in which Rappler’s executive editor Maria Ressa was arrested, but clarified the arrest itself was not a form of “political harassment.” In a statement, the NPC said that while the way in which Ressa was arrested “smacks of bad taste” as it was reportedly done near the end of office hours “thus affording Ms. Ressa little or no time at all […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the United States had “productive” talks with China over their trade dispute, after negotiations in Beijing ended with no indication of any concrete progress. In a tweet, Mnuchin said that he and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had “productive meetings with China’s Vice Premier Liu He.” © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections has released the list of candidates who have illegal campaign posters as of Thursday, Feb. 14. Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon released the names in a Tweet on Friday, Feb. 15, a day after she said her office had sent notices to 34 candidates for violating the requirements on campaign posters–they were either oversized or were placed in prohibited areas. The list she tweeted, however, contained 40 names. The […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, Feb. 15, scoffed at Maria Ressa’s claims the government was behind her arrest for cyber libel and was abusing its power, urging her to be “woman enough” and face her case instead of blaming the administration. “Excuse me, Maria. Abuse of power? You are the one abusing your power as a journalist. You are marshaling your colleagues to support you on the basis of misplaced and baseless cause. What is […]
(Eagle News) — The businessman who filed cyber libel charges against Rappler Inc., its executive editor Maria Ressa and former reporter Reynaldo Santos on Friday, Feb. 15, said he was “exploring other cases that can be filed” against the online news outfit and Ressa, as he decried what he said were their attempts to mislead the public. In a statement, Wilfredo Keng slammed what he said was Rappler’s and Ressa’s “ingenious attempt to divert attention […]
(Eagle News) — At least 37 blocks of suspected cocaine were recovered off Dinagat Islands in Caraga. The police said the blocks of suspected cocaine were found floating near the shoreline of Cagdianao in Barangay Poblacion on Tuesday, Feb. 12. The discovery was reported by a fisherman to the Cagdianao municipal police station. The blocks will be subjected to examination at the Crime Laboratory of the Police Regional Office-13.
(Eagle News) — A 4.2-magnitude aftershock struck Surigao del Norte on Friday, Feb. 15. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the aftershock from the 5.9-magnitude earthquake in the province on Feb. 8 hit 53 kilometers southeast of General Luna at 5:24 a.m. The depth of focus was 9 kilometers. No damage nor aftershocks were expected. https://youtu.be/gAUI4U8iJvU
