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QUEZON City, Philippines – The summary hearing regarding the returning of the money stolen from the Bangladesh Central Bank was set on May 2, in the Regional Trial Court of Manaila, Sala of Judge Reynaldo Alhambra. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Philippine National Police admitted that several of its personnel committed mistakes during the dispersal of protesting farmers in Kidapawan. According to the PNP, it is not part of their dispersal policy to fire guns which several police did on Kidapawan. The PNP added that said police were already identified and dismissed from the service. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The National Capital Region Police Office started assigning 240 police marshals in public utility buses in order to protect the passengers from hold-up situations as well as snatchers and pick-pockets. Said police marshals will board buses to check on the situation of passengers. Said measure will be implemented in EDSA and other major roads in the National Capital Region. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho […]
QUEZON CIty, Philippines – Now in custody of the National Bureau of Investigation Cybercrime Division is the hacker that attacked the official website of the Commission on Elections. Said suspect was apprehended due to the combination of digital and human surveillance. The COMELEC website was hacked last March 28 by a group of hacktivists that called themselves Anonymous Philippines. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo filed a petition to the Supreme Court to allow her to go to Pampanga and exercise her right to vote. According to the motion filed by her camp, Arroyo asked that she be allowed to leave the Veterans Memorial Medical Center and that the Commission on Elections recognizes the right of prisoners to vote and that she retains her right to vote because said right is denied […]
MANILA,Philippines (AFP) — Trash-talking Philippine presidential favourite Rodrigo Duterte has warned he is prepared to cut diplomatic ties with the United States and Australia after their ambassadors criticized his joke about the jailhouse rape of a missionary. Duterte also told the ambassadors to “shut their mouths”, as controversy continued to rage over his comments in which he said he wanted to have been the first to rape the Australian woman who was brutalized and murdered […]
MANILA, April 21 — The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) warns the public against a number of misleading claims currently circulating, regarding the use of biometrics in the 2016 National and Local Elections. The COMELEC has been receiving alarming reports that, in a number of cities and municipalities, unauthorized persons or parties have been conducting so-called “biometrics,” purportedly with the knowledge and consent of COMELEC. This is completely false, and constitutes an electoral offense punishable by law. […]
MANILA, Philippines — There was no reported incident of overseas Filipino workers being affected by the two earthquakes that struck the Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday said. “We received an update from Labor Attaché Luz Talento of Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Tokyo that no Filipino was hurt from the series of earthquakes that hit the Kumamoto area in Kyushu island; we thank God that they are safe. We […]
(Eagle News) — Sinibak na sa pwesto ang mga hindi pa pinangalanang pulis na umano’y gumamit ng baril sa mga magsasakang nakilahok sa protestang nauwi sa marahas na dispersal sa Kidapawan City at ikinamatay ng tatlong katao habang ikinasugat ng iba pa noong Abril 1. Ayon kay Philippine National Police Director for Operations Jonathan Miano, base aniya sa Police Operational Procedures, bawal gumamit ng armas sa gayong sitwasyon maliban na lamang kung talagang kinakailangan. Patuloy pa aniyang […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang said it would back all legal processes that aim to ensure the integrity of banking transactions in the Philippines, amid the investigation for the cyber theft of US$81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh. In a statement, Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma said that “the government supports all legal processes that are observed to ensure the integrity of all banking and financial transactions in the Philippines.” “The Anti-Money Laundering Council has […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The company of the ten Indonesian sailors abducted by the Abu Sayyaf Group will pay a Php 50 million ransom in exchange for their freedom. According to the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, the company and the ASG faction have already agreed on the price and are now just finalizing the details regarding the delivery of the money to said ASG faction. The 10 Indonesian sailors were abducted […]
