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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, Feb. 26, thanked Japan for its help to Filipinos who were on board the Diamond Princess and who have now been repatriated. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after the arrival of the 445 Filipinos who were quarantined in the Japan cruise ship off Yokohama. The quarantine was imposed after a passenger who had gone on a bus tour in Kyushu tested positive for the novel coronavirus. […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments has confirmed the ad interim appointment of Wendel Avisado as Budget secretary. The CA plenary made the confirmation after the CA committee on budget and management made the recommendation for the same. Avisado was designated to the post by President Rodrigo Duterte last year. He served as Davao administrator at a time President Duterte was mayor of the city.
Only permanent residents, Filipinos leaving for studies, returning OFWs allowed to travel to S. Korea so far, Panelo says (Eagle News) — The government has imposed a travel ban on South Korea as a precaution against the novel coronavirus. Earlier, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said only travelers coming from North Gyeongsang would not be allowed entry into the country temporarily. In a press conference later in the day, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said “any travel […]
(Eagle News) — A Commission on Appointments panel has recommended for confirmation the ad interim appointment of Wendel Avisado as Budget secretary. The recommendation was done by the CA’s committee on budget and management in a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 26. The recommendation will be submitted to the plenary for approval. Avisado was designated to the post by President Rodrigo Duterte last year.
(Eagle News)–These pictures from the Department of Health show each part of the room where each repatriate from the Diamond Princess will be staying for the duration of the required 14-day quarantine. Around 400 repatriates arrived at the New Clark City on Tuesday evening, after their 14-day quarantine in the Japan cruise ship lapsed. The Philippines has so far confirmed three COVID-19 cases. Pictures courtesy of Madz Villar, Eagle News Service
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers as the easterlies affect the eastern section of the country. Visayas and Mindanao will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. Flashfloods or thunderstorms are possible.
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government has successfully brought home 445 Filipinos, mostly crewmembers of the MV Diamond Princess cruise ship, through two chartered flights of the Philippine Airlines (PAL), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. The first flight, which carried 309 passengers, as well as a two-member repatriation team from the DFA and a four-member health response team from the Department of Health (DOH) arrived at Clark Airbase at 10:10 p.m. of […]
The second batch of repatriates is now boarding the flight to Manila! ✈ This batch is expected to arrive sometime before midnight.@teddyboylocsin #DFAinACTION#AssistancetoNationals pic.twitter.com/3PVodTcmsH — DFA Philippines (@DFAPHL) February 25, 2020 (Eagle News) – More than 400 Filipino repatriates from the Japan cruise ship, the MV Diamond Princess, have now boarded the two chartered planes that will bring them to the country Tuesday night, Feb. 25. This was according to the Department of Foreign Affairs […]
https://youtu.be/SNhoLO_OOAY (Eagle News) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is looking for “alternative options” to minimize the impact of the decision of Honda Cars Philippines to close its production in the country which will affect some 380 workers. Honda, in a statement issued on Monday, Feb. 24, said that it would close its plant in Sta. Rosa Laguna effective this March. It said that this is “to meet Honda’s customer needs in […]
(Eagle News)–The easterlies continue to affect the eastern section of the country today, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers as a result. Visayas and Mindanao, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms. The eastern sections of Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will have […]
(Eagle News)–Why ask us to issue a concurrent resolution for ABS-CBN to operate? This was the question posed by Senate President Tito Sotto to the National Telecommunications Commission on Tuesday, Feb. 25, a day after Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Congress could issue the concurrent resolution authorizing the NTC to issue the provisional authority “subject to the Congress’ eventual disposition” of ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal application. According to Sotto, the NTC “should be decisive enough to […]
(Eagle News) — Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, Feb. 25, said he would file a concurrent resolution expressing “Congress’ sentiment” that ABS-CBN be granted a provisional authority to operate until the end of the 18th Congress in 2022 or until Congress rejects the network’s application for a franchise. Drilon made the revelation in a radio interview, after Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Congress, through the concurrent resolution, could authorize the National Telecommunications Commission […]
