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QC to DENR: Reconsider Payatas closure

QUEZON CITY, Jan. 21 (PIA)–The Quezon City government appealed to Environment Secretary Gina Lopez to reconsider her order regarding the immediate closure of the Payatas sanitary landfill as the move would derail the city government’s solid waste management system.A statement from the City’s Environmental Protection and Waste Management Department stated that the Quezon City government is addressing every necessary step to address the concerns of the DENR Secretary. “To this extent, the Quezon City government […]

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QC extends deadline for business tax payments

QUEZON CITY, Jan 21 (PIA)–Quezon City has extended the deadline for first quarter tax payments. Taxpayers now have until February 3 to settle their tax obligations without penalties. The extension is provided under City Ordinance 2550 which was approved by Mayor Herbert Bautista on January 16. The deadline for the payment of business taxes in Quezon City has been extended from January 20 to February 3. The grant of the extension was described as necessary […]

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House Speaker urges PNP chief to resign

  (Eagle News) — House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez called on the chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald dela Rosa to resign after he himself expressed deep shame and regret that a Korean businessman was killed inside the national police headquarters in Camp Crame in Quezon City. In a statement, Alvarez called on Rosa to “immediately resign as chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to save President Rodrigo Duterte from further […]

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Senators dismayed at PNP regarding Joo slay

QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES – The Senate condemned the Philippine National Police after the heinous act of kidnapping and killing Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo in Pampanga. According to Senator Francis Escudero, this is like a big black eye to the PNP due to their weak response to its officials and personnel caught doing illegal activities as well as their seeming protection of their crooked members. Senator Panfilo Lacson, on the other hand, said that it […]

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Camp Crame security monitoring to be heightened after murder of Korean national

  (Eagle News) — Security in around the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City will be heightened following confirmed reports that Korean businessman Ji Ick-Joo was killed inside its premises. All CCTV recordings inside Camp Crame will be reviewed, according to PNP Spokesperson Police Senior Supt. Dionard Carlos. They are now coordinating with the PNP headquarters support service to review all CCTV recordings taken on October 18 and 19 2016, when the […]

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Trump presidency to put the Philippines’ Duterte administration on the spot, says analyst

  By Rowena Dela Fuente-Deimoy Eagle News Service QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Trump administration is expected to assert that the United States is the only superpower in the world. With the formal assumption to office of US President-elect Donald Trump, the new administration is seen to embark on a new foreign policy which is way different from that of outgoing US President Barack Obama. In an interview with Eagle New Service, International […]

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Militants stage rallies against Trump in Manila ahead of inauguration

  Hours before the inauguration of United States President-elect Donald Trump, hundreds of militants staged a rally in Manila denouncing the incoming US president as a protector of big business and American interests that would affect Filipino immigrants. The militant groups of Bayan and League of Filipino Students marched along Roxas Boulevard and tried to come near the US embassy but were prevented by members of the Manila Police District. Later on, the rallyists were […]

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Police suspect in Korean’s kidnap-slay fetched from NBI, now in Camp Crame

    (Eagle News) — Policemen have now fetched from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) the main cop suspect in the abduction and killing of  a Korean businessman last year. After an Angeles City court issued an arrest warrant for SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel and other cops involved in the crime, a team from the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group went to the NBI to serve the arrest warrant on Sta. Isabel. Sta. Isabel […]

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S Korean murdered in Philippine police HQ; PNP chief expresses deep shame

  (Eagle News) – The head of the Philippine National Police expressed deep shame that those involved in the abduction-slay of a Korean businessmen were members of his police force and that the victim was even killed inside the police’s national headquarters. PNP chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said he wanted to disappear from the face of the Earth after learning of the crime that happened right inside PNP’s Camp Crame in Quezon City.. […]

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Teresita Ang See bares 11 additional cases of ‘Tokhang for Ransom’

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Teresita Ang See of the Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order (MRPO) revealed that the case of ‘Tokhang for Ransom’ is not a new thing.  This has happened even before the controversial abduction-slay of  Korean-National Jee-Ick-Joo . Jee-Ick-Joo was abducted by a group of armed men in Angeles City, Pampanga last year. Suspects demanded P5-million ransom money from Joo’s wife, in exchange for his life.  But the suspects apparently had already […]

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DOJ recommends filing of criminal complaint vs police suspects in Korean’s kidnap-slay

  (Eagle News) — The Department of Justice is recommending the filing of a kidnapping for ransom with homicide case in court against three police officers involved in the abduction and killing of Korean national Jee Ick Joo last year. Assistant State Prosecutor Olivia Laroza Torrevillas found probable cause to charge SPO3 Ricky Sta Isabel, Ramon Yalung and two other police officers for the October 18, 2016 abduction and killing of Korean businessman Ji Ick […]

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