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(Eagle News) – More than 50 officials and employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) have been placed on “floating status” and are set to be fired by President Rodrigo Duterte for alleged corruption, Malacanang said on Thursday. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that these officials and employees “have pending administrative and criminal charges.” Panelo said that he still has no information as to who these officials were, but confirmed that they were […]
(Eagle News) – After days of hot weather with almost no rains, Angat dam’s water level went below the 160 meter critical level as of Thursday morning, July 11. According the PAGASA’s dam monitoring, the dam’s water level as of 6 a.m. Thursday stood at 159.93 down from (July 10) Wednesday morning’s 160.30 La Mesa Dam’s water level also went down to 72.16 meters from Wednesday morning’s 72.21 meters. This was, however, still above […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Francis Tolentino filed a bill which will declare the “existence of a national emergency” due to the traffic and congestion crisis in various metropolitan centers in the country. Senate Bill 213 also seeks to grant emergency powers for two years to the President to address this traffic crisis. “This bill proposes to declare the existence of a national emergency in view of the traffic and congestion crisis in Metropolitan Manila, Metropolitan […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte warned there could be “dangerous times ahead” which necessitated strengthening the country’s military and police, including equipping them properly with “armaments.” Duterte, speaking at the appreciation dinner on Tuesday night, July 9, for outgoing House Speaker and former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, said that he hoped that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) would be better equipped by the time his term […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine security forces confirmed Wednesday that at least one Filipino “suicide bomber” was behind a deadly attack last month, in a first for the Asian country. Norman Lasuca and one other yet to be identified suspect blew themselves up outside a military camp on the remote southern island of Jolo on June 28 in an attack that also killed three soldiers and two civilians, the police and military said. “We […]
(Eagle News) — The United States Embassy in Manila said that it was not true that US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang would be replacing the incumbent US Ambassador Sung Kim. “We’ve seen this claim. It is not true. In September 2018, the White House announced the President’s intent to nominate Mina Chang to be an Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development for the Bureau of Asia,” the US […]
(Editor’s note: In the latest development, the US Embassy has denied that US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang is being eyed as the next US Ambassador to the Philippines. See story here: https://www.eaglenews.ph/us-embassy-says-not-true-that-us-state-dept-official-mina-chang-would-be-replacing-ambassador-kim/) (Eagle News) – The next ambassador of the United States in the Philippines could be the current US State Department deputy assistant secretary Mina Chang. If appointed, Chang will be the second female US ambassador to the country after […]
by Emily Manuel (Eagle News) — Swedish Ambassador Harald Fries reiterated the Swedish embassy’s support to the #RespetoNaman campaign in a media fika or gathering which he hosted at his Makati City residence last July 9, 2019. According to to the ambassador, “gender equality is a top priority for the Swedish government.” “Four and a half years ago, when a new government came into power in Sweden, they formed the first feminist government in the […]
(Eagle News) – A strong 5.6 magnitude quake struck 20 kilometers southwest of Makilala, North Cotabato Tuesday night, July 9, followed by aftershocks, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The quake was of tectonic region and had a depth of 14 kilometers. It struck at 8:36 p.m., Tuesday. Its strongest aftershock so far occurred at 10:12 p.m. and 11:31 p.m., both with a magnitude of 4.8. The quake was felt at […]
Presents sworn affidavits, video of fishermen in case, saying they had nothing to do with the petition during oral arguments before Supreme Court (Eagle News) – Solicitor General Jose Calida bared on Tuesday, July 9, that the fishermen in the Writ of Kalikasan petition filed by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) had nothing to do at all with the petition but that their names were merely “used” by the IBP to fight the […]
(Eagle News) — Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez has agreed to be the Majority Floor Leader as had been decided by President Rodrigo Duterte, according to Albay Rep. Joey Salceda. “He’s accepting the mandate from us,” he said of Romualdez. Salceda said that they have also asked Romualdez to already report to Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano who had been chosen by President Duterte as the next House Speaker under a term-sharing agreement with Marinduque […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Dutere got its highest satisfaction rating to date, with 80 percent of adult Filipinos saying they are satisfied with his performance, according to the Second Quarter survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS). The latest survey results showed that only 12 percent of those surveyed were dissatisfied, while nine percent remained undecided. “Compared to March 2019, gross satisfaction with Pres. Duterte rose by 1 point from 79%, gross undecided […]
