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QUEZON City, Philippines – The Department of Education reminded incoming Grade 11 students as well as their parents to enroll early – this weekend preferably – so that the first day of classes on June 13 will be non-problematic. The DepEd warned senior high school students that they may not be accommodated if they do not enroll early as the acceptance in a senior high school track is on a first-come, first-serve basis. (Eagle News […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The European Union guaranteed that it will cooperate with the new President, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. According to EU Ambassador Franz Jessen, the EU is just waiting for the formal start of Duterte’s presidency before presenting its plans to him, including the peace talks in Mindanao. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, May 12 – The government remains optimistic in neutralizing the Abu Sayyaf Group, as well as in freeing its remaining hostages before President Benigno S. Aquino III steps down from office in 52 days, a Palace official has said. During a media briefing in Malacañang on Tuesday, Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said the administration is determined to achieve this goal but declined to give specific forecast or target dates, given the sensitivity of […]
MANILA , Philippines (AFP) — Philippine communist rebel leader Jose Maria Sison has expressed hopes of ending nearly three decades in exile under the new presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, a potentially explosive homecoming opposed by senior military figures. Sison, 77, fled to Europe soon after peace talks failed in 1987 and has stayed abroad since, while one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies continued to claim thousands of lives. “I will return to the Philippines if Duterte […]
Panoramic view sa isinagawang Lingap Pamamahayag – Lingap sa Mamayan ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Quezon Convention Center.
QUEZON City, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has declared failure of elections in 11 municipalities in the country after voting did not push through last May 9, affecting 17,657 registered voters. COMELEC Resolution No. 10129 said there were a total of 52 clustered precincts from 11 towns, mostly in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and eastern Visayas where no elections were held last Monday due to problems in the ballots and security […]
MANILA, Philippines — Supporters of Vice Presidential Candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos on Wednesday morning (May 11) trooped to Luneta Park to protest alleged anomalies and cheating in the vote counting machines or VCM. Raquel Cascon, an Overseas Filipino Worker from Hong Kong claimed that most of the voters in the said were solid for Marcos. Protesters also said that they are ready to go to the streets — in a show of force — to […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has denied it had a “Plan B,” referring to circulating reports on an alleged plan that would ensure that Liberal Party vice-presidential bet Leni Robredo would continue the Aquino government’s “agenda”. In a statement, the Palace claims it has no plans to impeach the winning president and install the Vice President who comes from the Liberal Party to continue its agenda. “Masyado yatang malawak na imahinasyon ang ginagamit sa ganyang mga […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has already formed the transition team to be headed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., that would be in charge of the “smoothest transition possible” for the administration of the next President. President Aquino himself has informed the camp of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte about this transition team. “I talked to Mr. Bong Go (Tuesday) to relay to Mayor Duterte that an Administrative Order is being drafted designating the Executive […]
(Eagle News) The camp of vice-presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., claimed on Wednesday that a “new script” was introduced into the transparency server of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on Monday night (May 9), pointing to this as the possible cause of the sudden erosion of vote counts for the senator. “We received unsettling information that at past 7:30 p.m. on May 9, 2016 Election Day, a new script or computer command was […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Four Indonesian sailors kidnapped by suspected Islamic militants in the strife-torn southern Philippines were released Wednesday, the second group of Indonesian hostages to be freed this month. Gunmen abducted the sailors on the high seas off the east coast of Malaysia’s Sabah state on April 15, shooting and wounding another crew member. Philippine Islamist group Abu Sayyaf was suspected of having carried out the kidnapping, the latest in a recent spree of […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Bongbong Marcos lead in the local absentee voting where government employees, military and police personnel as well as members of the media exercised their right to vote. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
