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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited Marawi for the third time as martial law in Mindanao entered its fourth month. A statement from the Presidential Communications Operations Office said the President made a stopover at a “temporary patrol base,” where he even “tried out a sniper rifle and fired it toward the direction of the enemies.” The media was not informed of Duterte’s visit beforehand as in his previous visits to Marawi on July […]
(Eagle News) — Take a leave of absence or resign. This was the message of the six commissioners of the Commission on Elections to their embattled chief, Andres Bautista. In a statement on Thursday, Commissioners Christian Robert Lim, Rowena Guanzon, Luie Tito Guia, Arthur Lim, Sheriff Abas and Al Parreno urged Bautista to do either or “for the sake of his career, and most importantly, for the sake of his family, particularly his four innocent […]
(Eagle News) — Two of the three policemen believed involved in the killing of Kian delos Santos finally broke their silence in public about what supposedly happened the night the boy was killed. P01 Jerwin Cruz insisted on Thursday that the man who was being dragged in circulated footage from the barangay’s closed-circuit television camera was their asset, and not the 17-year-old boy. “Yun po ang asset namin. Isa siya sa nakakakilala sa aming hinahanap na […]
(Eagle News) — The contents of the spot report supposedly detailing what happened on the night Kian Delos Santos was killed do not match what the Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police believed happened, based on testimonies. This was revealed during Senator Bam Aquino’s questioning of PNP-IAS Director General Alfegar Triambulo and Senior Supt. Chito Bersaluna during the hearing held by the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs on Thursday. The […]
(Eagle News) – The bird flu strain that hit Pampanga is H5N6, a strain of avian influenza that can be transmitted to humans, the Department of Agriculture said, citing confirmatory results of tests of affected samples that the Philippines had submitted to another country. The government, however, said that the rate of transmission for such a strain is “very low.” The agriculture department had earlier sent the samples from Pampanga of the affected poultry […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday swiped back at former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, who has accused the senator’s son of being engaged in smuggling activities. “First, I have nothing to do with my son’s business,” he said in a statement. He added that there was “no smuggling of cement as it is not subject to Customs tariff and duties but (was) only subject to (Value Added Tax).” “My son said when I […]
(Eagle News) – Former Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon accused Senator Panfilo Lacson of being irresponsible when he “destroyed” his and his men’s reputation at the Bureau of Customs, and claimed that the senator’s son was involved in the smuggling of cement in the country. In a press conference in Taytay, Rizal on Thursday, Faeldon claimed that “Bon Journo,” a company connected to Panfilo Lacson Jr., son of the senator, was the “number one smuggler of cement […]
(Eagle News) — Naglatag na ang Korte Suprema na umuupo bilang Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) ng mga panuntunan para sa paghahanda sa recount ng mga balota kaugnay sa electoral protest ni dating senador Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos. Sa limang pahinang resolusyon ng PET, nakasaad ang mga patakaran sa isasagawang ballot revision kabilang na ang binuong exploratory mission o retrieval team. Ang retrieval team ang tutunton at mageeksamin sa lahat ng ballot boxes sa mga probinsya at […]
(Eagle News) — Piso para sa laban ni Leni. Ito ang naging paraan ng mga indibiduwal na sumusuporta sa bise presidente kaugnay sa counter protest ng Pangalawang Pangulo sa inihaing electoral protest ni dating senador Ferdinand “Bongbong Marcos” hinggil sa nakaraang halalan. Nauwi sa fund-raising ang grupo dahil hindi anila kayang bunuin ng bise presidente ang natitirang P7.4 million na dapat bayaran sa Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET). Sabi ni Atty. Purificacion Bernabe, walang iligal sa kanilang […]
(Eagle News) – Paraffin tests done by the police on the slain Grade 11 student Kian Loyd delos Santos showed he was negative for gunpowder nitrates, which meant he did not fire a gun contrary to the arresting policemen’s claim. “Both hands of the cadaver do not contain gunpowder nitrates,” said the results of the Philippine National Police’s paraffin tests on Kian’s body. “The qualitative examination conducted on the paraffin cast taken from both hands […]
(Eagle News) — Commission on Elections Andres Bautista is mulling “all options” following the filing of an impeachment complaint against him. In an interview with reporters before a House committee deliberation on the Comelec’s proposed budget, Bautista said among these options was resignation or a leave of absence. “Yun ang ating tinitimbang, kung ano ang ating susunod na hakbang,” he said. He said he wanted to protect “first and foremost” the interest of his family […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines now has 10 gold medals, 15 silver medals and 20 bronze medals as of Wednesday night, August 23, in the ongoing Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but remains in the sixth place in the over-all medal tally. Philippine runner Trentren Anthony Beram won the country’s 10th gold in the Men’s 200-meter run, while another runner Aries Toledo won the 9th gold in the men’s decathlon event on […]
