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(Eagle News) — The Palace has declared Jan. 21 a special non-working holiday in several parts of Mindanao. According to Proclamation No. 646, the declaration applies to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Isabela in Basilan and to Cotabato City. The declaration was made to allow voters to participate in the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law ratification slated on that day. Residents of Lanao del Norte except Iligan City, and six towns in North Cotabato […]
(Eagle News)– Paolo Duterte has asked a Davao court to cancel the bail it granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for libel. In making the plea in a motion filed before Branch 54 on Jan. 4, the former Davao vice mayor, through his lawyers, argued Trillanes “flagrantly violated the conditions of his bail and (the) court’s custody over him” when he left for the United States without seeking the court’s permission allegedly to attend speaking […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima has cried foul over some people’s comments her detention was a result of the existing political climate, saying this implied she targeted political enemies when she was in a “better” political climate in the first place. “I have persecuted no one for political reasons or personal vengeance. I have killed no one. I have stolen nothing. I have sold or traded no drugs. I have not conspired with […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Bam Aquino has renewed his call for the suspension of the excise tax on fuel following what he said was a recent “big-time fuel price hike” due to an increase in oil prices in the world market. “Nalulunod pa rin sa mahal na presyo ng pagkain at bilihin ang ating mga kababayan kaya napakalaking pagkakamali na payagan ang ikalawang bahagi ng excise tax sa ilalim ng (Tax Reform for Acceleration and […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Sonny Angara on Thursday, Jan. 17, called for the passage of a law that would grant tax exemptions to small-scale miners who would sell their gold to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. In a statement, Angara said if passed, the Gold Bill, as it is called in the Senate, will “ensure the strength of the country’s (gross international reserves)” promote the Philippines’ “greater monetary and external sector stability,” and “help support the […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration denied geologist Mahar Lagmay’s claims it gave inaccurate rainfall forecasts and late warnings on Tropical Depression “Usman,” which killed several people in December especially in the Bicol area. In a statement, PAGASA administrator Vicente Malano said the agency defines “moderate to heavy rainfall in its Severe Weather Bulletins as 24-hour daily accumulated rainfall of 60 to 180 millimeters and more than 180, respectively.” “In […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs assured the families of the seven Filipino seafarers who were detained in Libya that it was exerting best efforts to bring them home. In a statement, the DFA said Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. already held a meeting “with the Libyan official on the sides of the Global Compact for Migration meeting in Morocco last month.” “The Secretary reiterated his request to Libyan Embassy Chargé d’Affaires […]
by François AUSSEILL and Fran BLANDY Agence France Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Kenyan police scoured the rubble of a Nairobi hotel complex for more victims Wednesday as the death toll from a jihadist attack jumped to 21 and mourners began to bury the dead. President Uhuru Kenyatta had earlier announced the end of a 20-hour operation at the DusitD2 complex which saw hundreds of people rescued and all five jihadists “eliminated”. The bloody assault […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines registered an average hunger rate of 10.8 percent in 2018, the lowest annual average hunger rate since 2003, the Social Weather Stations said. In its December 16 to 19 survey, the SWS said in particular, 10.5% or an estimated 2.4 million families experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months, or 2.8 points lower than the 13.3%, or an estimated 3.1 million families, hunger in September 2018. The 2.8-point […]
(Eagle News) — Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday, Jan. 16, hailed President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war anew, saying it should serve as “an example” to the whole world. “The war against crime and drugs carried out by you is an example to the whole world and personal to me. Drug menace is rampant in my country and I feel that we should follow your footsteps to control this hazard,” Sirisena said during the state banquet […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Tax Appeals has acquitted former military comptroller Jacinto Ligot and his wife in a P428-million tax evasion case. In acquitting Ligot and his wife Erlinda, the third division said the prosecution failed to “prove beyond reasonable doubt” the two filed false income tax returns and Statements of Assets Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) from 2001 to 2004. “The evidence relied upon by the prosecution to prove their allegations have either […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines and Sri Lanka on Wednesday, Jan. 16, inked several agreements during Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena’s state visit to the country. The Palace said signed were: a memorandum of understanding between the Philippines’ Department of National Defense and the Ministry of Defense of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on defense and military education and training and exchanges of defense and military delegations a memorandum of understanding on academic cooperation […]
