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MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Bagaman nagpatupad na ng total ban sa deployment ng mga Overseas Filipino Worker (OFWs) sa Kuwait, nangangamba pa rin ang minority bloc sa Kamara sa posibleng patuloy na pag-abuso sa ating mga kababayan ng mga illegal recruiter. Ito ay matapos na payagan ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ang ibang OFWs na bumalik sa kanilang mga kumpanya sa Kuwait partikular na ang mga nagbakasyon lang sa bansa at ang […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday said he would also assign Philippine names to the features at the Philippine Rise that were named by China. “We will still discuss this with the National Security Adviser and other Cabinet members,” he said. Lorenzana issued the brief statement after the Palace condemned China’s move to name the five undersea features. In a Facebook post, Jay Batongbacal, an associate professor at the University of the Philippines […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Labor and Employment has qualified the government’s total ban on overseas Filipino workers to Kuwait, saying this only referred to “all types of workers being deployed for the first time for overseas employment in Kuwait.” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III clarified the “general coverage” of department issued Administrative Order No. 54 regarding the total ban on the deployment of OFWs in Kuwait. “The deployment ban covers all types of […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – According to Department of Health (DOH), Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is among the top killers in th Philippines, causing more than half of all deaths annually. This disease which is manifested primarily as heart attacks and strokes are caused by smoking, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol. That is why the government exerts its full effort to raise people’s awareness about this serious health problem, thus declaring the […]
The death toll from “Basyang” has risen to nine, officials said Wednesday, as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding. Landslides and flash floods brought by the storm struck Mindanao on Tuesday and killed eight people, the civil defense office in the region said, doubling its earlier figure of four deaths. “Most of the floods have subsided and all roads are now passable, but we have two people still missing […]
“Iba naman yung exercising sovereign rights,” he says (Eagle News) — Unlike some of his colleagues, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III sees nothing wrong with China’s naming of five undersea features at Philippine Rise. “Without reading the convention or the treaty, or the rules governing the name, common sense tells me that no one has a monopoly of the power or the right to name features on earth. Wala naman pong ganun,” he said on […]
(Eagel News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) reported on Wednesday that over 5,000 barangays in the country have already been declared drug-free under the administration’s anti-drug campaign since July 1, 2016 up to February 8, 2018. PDEA Spokesperson Derrick Carreon said in a press briefing that the 5,327 barangays were out of the 24, 137 drug-affected barangays which represent 57.42% of the 42,036 barangays nationwide. According to Carreon, this was the result of […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has protested China’s naming of five undersea features at the Philippine Rise. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who issued a statement on the matter on Wednesday. “We object and do not recognize the Chinese names given to some undersea features in the Philippine Rise. Per our Philippine embassy in Beijing, they have already raised our concern to China,” Roque said. According to Roque, the embassy was […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday urged the Philippines to file a diplomatic protest against China over its reported naming of five undersea features at Philippine Rise. “So palagay ko this time, it warrants at the very least, a diplomatic protest dahil hndi pwedeng hahayaan na lang yan. At least ngayon maliwanag na, dapat off limits na sa kanila itong Benham Rise,” Trillanes said in an interview with reporters. […]
(Eagle News) — The camp of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Wednesday slammed House Deputy Speaker Gwendolyn Garcia for her claim the Ombudsman’s move to dismiss her was connected to her “vigorous and active role” in the impeachment proceedings against the top magistrate. According to Sereno’s spokesperson, lawyer Jojo Lacanilao, this statement was “bereft of truth and wisdom.” “To set the record straight, the Chief Justice has nothing to do with the Ombudsman’s decision. (Garcia) […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Naghain ng petisyon ang mga bus operator kaugnay ng dagdag-pasahe, gayundin ng provisional hike, sakaling hindi pa maipatupad ang kanilang petisyon. Ang pitong pahinang joint petition ay inihain ng Southern Luzon Bus Operators Association, Nagkakaisang Samahan ng Nangangasiwa ng Panlalawigang Bus sa Pilipinas at ng Samahang Bus Transport Operators ng Pilipinas. Inihain nila ito sa Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), kasunod nang pagtaas ng presyo ng langis dahil […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson is pushing for the removal of interconnection fees that are charged to consumers for calls and text messages made across two different networks. For this, Lacson called for an amendment to Senate Bill 1636, or the Lifetime Cellphone Number Act. “We are here to protect the consumers. And the consumer, not being made aware he is calling through a different PTE (public telecommunications entity), is helpless in being charged with […]
