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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Sisimulan na ngayong araw ang unang foreign trip ngayong taon ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Umalis patungong Hainan Province, China ang Pangulo para dumalo sa “Boao forum for Asia” na dadaluhan din ng ibang world leaders. Ito na ang magiging ikatlong pagbisita ng Pangulo sa China matapos ang kanyang pulong kay Chinese President Xi Jinping noong October 2016. Layunin nito na patatagin at palalimin ang bilateral relations ng dalawang bansa. Matapos […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police joined the nation in celebrating the Day of Valor, noting the “unbroken tradition of a true Filipino valor thirsting for freedom.” In a statement, PNP spokesperson Chief Supt. John Bulalacao said the PNP was “giving honors to the Filipino soldiers who gave their lives and treasure so that we may all live in peace and freedom.” “We pay respect to the heroes whose lives were sacrificed and whose […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has ordered a review of all “traditions” of cadets in the Philippine National Police Academy following the mauling of six of its recent graduates, and stressed the need for more uniformed personnel who will supervise them. Año, a cum laude graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, ordered Philippine Public Safety College president Ricardo de Leon and PNPA director Chief Superintendent Joseph Adnol to “institute the necessary systematic reforms […]
(Eagle News) — Senators on Monday called on the public to continue to be brave in defending the country, noting the heroism of war heroes and veterans. Senate President Koko Pimentel said in a statement this was “a time when the country needs all its citizens, not to fight in trenches, but to make the Philippines better for Filipinos.” “Filipinos never failed to respond to the call of duty when their country needed them..It’s time to […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte called on Filipinos to “defend the honor of our motherland” on Monday, April 9, Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor, as he recalled the heroism of thousands of Filipino and American troops who marched in Bataan 76 years ago. “Seventy-six years have passed since Filipino and American troops fought side by side in defense of our democratic way of life,” the President said in a statement. “Immeasurable […]
(Eagle News)–For Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, the National Food Authority Council is no longer needed. In a radio interview on Sunday, Alvarez said there was, after all, an NFA administrator who could oversee the country’s rice situation. “Pag ginawa niya ng maayos trabaho niya, siguro naman walang problema,” he said. Alvarez made the pronouncement after Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said President Rodrigo Duterte had ordered the NFA Council abolished in a meeting with rice traders on […]
(Eagle News)—Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade has sacked Land Transportation Office personnel in Nueva Vizcaya over corruption allegations. Tugade issued the order against personnel at the LTO’s Bayombong District Office and Aritao Extension Office, after rice traders and truckers complained to President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday. According to the complainants, several of the LTO personnel earn as much as P1 million a day by extorting money from thousands of truckers bringing agricultural products from Cagayan Valley outside […]
(Eagle News) — The Makabayan bloc of the House of Representatives has urged a probe into the government’s list of supposed terrorists who are alleged members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). The left-leaning group said the House Committee on Human Rights, through Resolution 1807, should also condemn the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) list that was attached to the government petition seeking to declare the CPP-NPA as a terrorist organization, and […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs is still checking whether there were Filipino casualties when a vehicle plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Munster, Germany. In a DFA statement, Embassy Chargè d’Affaires Lilibeth Pono said around 4,100 of the 22,500 Filipinos are in North Rhine-Westphalia, where Munster is located. She said the Embassy has also asked the Essen Honorary Consul in Essen, Heinz-Peter Heidrich, to coordinate with police in Munster. Pono said members of the […]
(Eagle News)—-The Department of Labor and Employment said there was a need to conduct a nationwide profiling of child laborers. According to DOLE, the profile will “serve as a basis for the provision of appropriate services and interventions necessary to remove the children from child labor.” According to the guidelines released by DOLE, child labor refers to any economic activity done by children under 18 years of age. Exploitation is harmful to the physical, mental, or […]
(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno will still attend the April 10 oral argument set for her quo warranto case even if the Supreme Court does not act on her manifestation that five justices inhibit themselves. This is according to Josa Deinla, SC spokesperson, who gave a radio interview on Sunday. “Talagang nagpasya si Chief Justice na pupunta siya personal at aattend sa hearing,” Deinla said. Deinla reiterated however that Sereno was not acknowledging that […]
(Eagle News)–The Coalition for Justice (CFJ) is urging the Supreme Court en banc to order its five supposedly biased members to inhibit from the quo warranto case against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. The CFJ said Justices Teresita de Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, and Noel Tijam should be told to inhibit if they refuse to inhibit themselves “to preserve (the SC’s) credibility as an institution mandated to dispense justice.” “To allow its members to brazenly […]
