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(Eagle News) — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte has offered a P2 million reward for anyone who can give the names and the whereabouts of the suspects in the deadly Sept 2 bombing in a night market in Roxas District in Davao City. The mayor said that P1 million would be given for anyone who can give the name of the suspects, and another P1 million for those who can hand the suspects alive to […]
QUEZON CITY, Sept. 5 — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) firmly believes that death penalty will be a strong deterrent against all drug-related offenders in the Philippines. “Manufacturers, smugglers, pushers and all the more coddlers and protectors of illegal drugs in the country, both foreign and domestic, who were proven guilty in court, deserve nothing more than capital punishment,” said PDEA Director General Isidro S. Lapeňa. “Harsher penalties must be dealt for all drug traffickers […]
DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) — Philippines police Sunday were searching for three people wanted for questioning over the bombing of a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown blamed on an Islamic militant group. The blast, which tore through a bustling market in the heart of Davao city on Friday, killed at least 14 people and led to the president imposing a “state of lawlessness” in the country. The head of Davao police on Sunday described […]
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Sept. 4 (PIA) — U.S. Embassy in the Philippines’ United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and the government of the Philippines, through its Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), launched yesterday a partnership in support of The Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (USAID Oceans). The program will enhance the sustainability of Asia-Pacific fisheries, protect the region’s rich marine biodiversity, and mitigate the serious impacts […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine authorities on Saturday said the Abu Sayyaf, a local Islamic militant group notorious for kidnapping foreigners, was responsible for a deadly night market bombing that killed at least 14 people. Here are five key questions and answers about the Abu Sayyaf: – Who are they? – The group is a radical offshoot of a Muslim separatist insurgency that has claimed more than 120,000 lives in the south of the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited on Saturday (September 3) the hospitals where the wounded victims of the deadly blast in a night market in Davao City were being treated and assured their relatives that the government will cover all their medical expenses. Duterte’s expression was that of concern, pain and extreme sadness as he consoled the relatives of the injured victims being treated at the San Pedro Hospital and Davao Medical Center. […]
By Caesar Vallejos EBC Correspondent Businessmen, through the statement of the Makati Business Club (MBC), strongly condemned the blast that killed 14 people and injured 67 others at the Roxas night market in Davao City calling it a horrific act of terror. “This act of cowardice, which targeted the lives of innocent civilians and sought to foster fear in people, has no place in any society,” the statement said. Earlier reports mention that the Abu […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP)–Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte cancelled Saturday his first foreign trip to Brunei following a deadly blast in his home town, his spokesman said. An improvised explosive device tore through a night market in the southern city of Davao on Friday, killing at least 14 people and leaving another 67 injured. Duterte, who was in Davao at the time of the bombing, visited the blast site and has been monitoring the situation there with his […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police appealed to the public on Saturday (Sept. 3) to remain calm and vigilant after the deadly bombing of a night market in Davao City that killed at least 14 persons and injured more than 60 others. PNP chief Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said it was important for the public to remain calm and continue on with their normal lives as it was the aim of those behind the […]
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (AFP)–The Abu Sayyaf Islamic militant group carried out a bomb attack in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s home town that killed at least 14 people, the city’s mayor said Saturday. “The office of the president texted and confirmed that was an Abu Sayyaf retaliation. For the city government side, we are working on that it is an Abu Sayyaf retaliation,” Davao city mayor Sara Duterte, who is also the president’s daughter, told CNN Philippines. […]
by Dennis Santos DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday branded the bombing of a night market in his home town that killed at least 14 people an act of terrorism, and announced extra powers for the military to combat the threat. Duterte said there were no confirmed suspects for the attack in the southern city of Davao just before 11:00pm (1500 GMT) on Friday, although he named two Islamic militant groups and […]
DAVAO CITY (Sept. 3) — President Rodrigo R. Duterte has placed the country under a “state of lawlessness” hours after the deadly blast in a night market here in Davao City, as he authorized the police and military to conduct security searches in cars and frisking of individuals in checkpoints. Duterte clarified the state of lawlessness is not martial law and does not involve the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. “State of […]
