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(Eagle News) – Angat dam’s water level continued to go down below the 160-meter critical level with the level recorded at 158.75 meters as of Monday morning, July 15, according to PAGASA’s dam monitoring. The dam water level decreased by 40 centimeters compared to Sunday morning’s level at 159.15. There were not enough rains in Bulacan the past few days which contributed to the declining water level there. In contrast, the La Mesa dam’s […]
(Eagle News) – There is a now tropical depression in the country, with the country’s weather bureau giving it the name “Falcon.” Falcon was the low pressure area east of Guian, Samar that developed into a tropical depression today, Monday, July 15. Because of this, scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms over Bicol region and Eastern Visayas. This is due to the trough of the tropical depression. There will also rains and thunderstorms to be felt […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that Iceland and the other countries which supported and voted for the resolution seeking a comprehensive review and report on his government’s war on drugs do not really understand the problems ailing the Philippines. The 73-year old Philippine leader, known for his acerbic tongue, did not mince words in criticizing Iceland in particular which authored the resolution that was approved by 18 countries of the 47-member council. […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would set up by December the “Department of Overseas Filipino Workers” to address the concerns of the country’s OFWs. The department would make sure that the recruitment of OFWs would be under strict regulation of the government, and would work to prevent the abuse of Filipinos working abroad. “Kailangan na ninyo ng isang departamento (You already need a department),” he said in a speech during the […]
Fifty-one people were injured and several homes, churches and other buildings damaged on Saturday when an earthquake sent terrified residents of the southern Philippines fleeing their homes before dawn, police said. The 5.8-magnitude quake struck the northeast coast of Mindanao island at 4:42 am (2042 GMT Friday) at a depth of 11.8 kilometres (7.3 miles), with the Philippine seismology office also recording seven less intense aftershocks. The quake struck five kilometers east southeast of Cantilan, […]
(Eagle News) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions thanked the United Nations Human Rights Council for adopting the resolution seeking a comprehensive written report into Philippone government’s drug war. In her tweet, UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard said that she was also thanking the UN human rights body “on behalf of the thousands of victims of a senseless war on drugs, the dozens of murdered defenders, lawyers, farmers […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would require the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to state its purpose before allowing any of its investigators to come to the country. “Let them state their purpose and I will review it,” Duterte told reporters on Thursday. This was before the 47-member council voted on the controversial Iceland authored resolution pushing for a comprehensive review and report on the Philippine drug war. He said […]
Foreign affairs chief says PHL will be “Friend to friends, enemy to enemies, and a worse enemy to false friends.” (Here is the full text of the statement of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., on the adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council of the Iceland resolution pushing a comprehensive review and report of the drug war under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.) In 1945, the Philippines, along with 50 other states, […]
14 states , including Philippines, reject Iceland-authored resolution (Eagle News) – The Philippines, along with 13 other countries, rejected a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution pushed by Iceland and other Western nations that sought a comprehensive written report on the Philippine drug war under President Rodrigo Duterte. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr was scathing in his statement read after the UN human rights body voted in favor of a draft resolution pushed by […]
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, July 11, narrowly approved a resolution mandating a “comprehensive” international review of the drug war in the Philippines, with 18 states in the 47-member council backing the resolution first pushed by Iceland. Activists said they had initially hoped the UN would demand a formal “inquiry”, but compromised on calling for a “report” to win a majority. The text, proposed by Iceland, was backed by 18 states in […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s strong stand against Canada on the issue of returning its trash back to its shores has inspired other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to also take a strong stand on saying no to wastes being dumped into their countries. This was relayed by Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero of the Bureau of Customs to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. Guerrero, who came from the 28thmeeting […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte revealed that he would be firing 64 officials and employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) for their involvement in corruption, daring them to resign first before he makes his move. “I was reading the dossier from all intelligence sources, if I can dismiss them, I will be dismissing something like 64 Customs employees,” he said. “It’s a simple case, you resign or I file charges,” Duterte said shortly […]
