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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Protests took place Sunday in Manila over Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s plans to honour the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos with a state burial. About 2,000 people gathered in heavy rain to denounce Duterte’s plans to move Marcos’ remains from his northern hometown to the National Heroes’ Cemetery in the capital, Manila, next month. “We would be the laughing stock of the entire planet,” Senator Risa Hontiveros, one of four members of […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Five people have been killed in the Philippines and tens of thousands have fled from floods caused by days of unrelenting rain, rescuers said Sunday. Civil defence officials warned residents of Manila and nearby provinces to expect more heavy seasonal rain over the coming days as more than 24,000 people sought refuge in schools and government buildings. “We are expecting more low-lying areas to experience flooding,” National Disaster Risk Reduction and […]
(Eagle News) — More rains are expected Sunday (Aug. 14) in Metro Manila, and the rest of Luzon as residents in low lying areas and near waterways in the Philippine capital were ordered to evacuate Saturday. The Office of Civil Defense has recorded 3.5 millimeters of moderate rains in the last hour (from 6:45 a.m. to 7:45 a.m.). Enforced evacuation is ordered for residents along Tullahan River in Quezon City, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela. […]
MANILA, Aug. 13 – The Election Registration Board (ERB) will convene from August 11 to August 15 to evaluate applications for registration for the 2016 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. The ERB is composed of the Election Officer as chairman, the local civil registrar, and the most senior in rank public school official in a city or municipality, as members. In the absence of the civil registrar, the city or municipal treasurer can take his […]
QUEZON CITY, Aug. 13 – “Not all landlords are created equal. Some have really big landholdings. And they form the bastion of the landlord-oligarchy.”—Rafael “Paeng” Mariano, DAR chief Taking the cue from President Rodrigo Duterte, Agrarian Reform chief Rafael Mariano announced on Friday the new directive of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR): to free farmer-tenants from the grips of landlord-oligarchs. “These landlord-oligarchs use their power, influence, and connections to deprive farmer-tenants of land that should have […]
MANILA, Aug. 13 – Former President and Special Envoy Fidel V. Ramos met in Hong Kong with his old friends –Madam Fu Ying (Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress and former Ambassador to Manila 1998-2000) and Professor Wu Shicun (President, China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies) — in a friendly atmosphere. They discussed, in their private capacity, the way forward in the spirit of universal brotherhood and sisterhood for peace […]
CHINA has welcomed former Philippine President Fidel Ramos as a special envoy of the Philippine President for talks in Beijing, said Rafael Alunan III, former interior and local government secretary of the Philippines on Friday. Alunan made the statement at a press conference after accompanying Ramos in having dinner with senior Chinese official Fu Ying in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Ramos also attended the press conference. Commenting on the meeting between Fidel Ramos and Fu […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nababahala ang Provincial Bus Operators Association of the Philippines (PBOAP) sa plano ng Department of Transportation (DOT) na isara ang bus terminals sa Edsa para lumuwag ang traffic sa Metro Manila. Ayon sa grupo, meron pang ibang paraan para paluwagin ang edsa na hindi kailangang alisin ang bus terminals na legal ang operasyon. Dapat balansehin ang pag-hahanap ng solusyon sa traffic at pangangailangan ng mga pasahero. Halos 400 thousand […]
PANACAN, Davao City (Eagle News) — Humingi ng paumanhin si Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte kay Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno sa mga binitiwan niyang salita. Sa isang press conference sa Panacan, Davao City. Sinabi ng pangulo na hindi niya intensyon ang mga masasakit na salita na kaniyang binitiwan. Aniya may nangyayaring patayan dahil sa ilegal na droga at trabaho niyang bigyang-kaalaman ang publiko sa kanilang paligid upang maka-iwas sa anu-mang panganib. Una rito, pinuna ng […]
PASAY City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Isasara ang South-bound lane ng EDSA malapit sa MRT 3 Taft Station ngayong weekend. Para sa pag-assemble ng apat (4) na bagong Light Rail Vehicles o LRVS. Ayon sa Department of Transportation (DOT), ang lane ay isasara mula sabado ng alas-otso ng gabi hanggang alas-tres ng madaling araw ng Linggo. Ganoon na din mula alas-tres ng hapon hanggang alas-diyes ng gabi ng Linggo. Nais ng DOT na tiyakin ang […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Japan on Friday announced it is pouring a massive $2.4 billion into a new railway in the Philippines aimed at easing Manila’s notorious gridlock. Japan, the Philippines’ top trading partner and source of aid, said the 38-kilometre (24-mile) elevated commuter line would connect Manila to nearby Bulacan province to decongest the capital and help spur economic activity. “This is one of the biggest projects Japan has ever embarked upon using the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Ten prisoners in the Philippines were killed when a suspected jailbreak and attempt to kidnap the warden went wrong in a Manila suburb, authorities said Friday. The prisoners, including two Chinese, were meeting with the warden of the Paranaque City jail in his office when the explosion occurred on Thursday evening, killing the inmates and wounding the warden, said national jail service spokesman Senior Inspector Xavier Solda. The blast comes as […]
