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(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies will prevail today, June 20, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. Metro Manila will have cloudy skies to partly cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides due to severe thunderstorms are possible. Luzon, VIsayas and Mindanao will have light to moderate rains and slight to moderate coastal waters.
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday, June 19, said the office of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. in Ilocos Region is housed in a building owned by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III. Duque is ex-officio chair of PhilHealth. According to Lacson, he has a copy of the contract of lease for the building in Tapuac district in Dagupan City in Pangasinan. “If this is not conflict of interest I don’t know what is,” […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies are expected in the country today, June 19. In its 4 p.m. advisory, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the country, including Metro Manila, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, PAGASA said, will have light to moderate winds and slight to moderate coastal waters.
(Eagle News) — The Filipino seafarers who were on board one of the two oil tankers that were damaged in a supposed attack near the Strait of Hormuz on June 13 are back in the country. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the 11 Filipino seafarers of MT Front Altair arrived on Wednesday, June 19. Details on the repatriation of the 21 seafarers on board MT Kokuka Courageous were not made available so far. “The […]
(Eagle News) — For Senator Richard Gordon, the issue is not whether or not the hitting by a Chinese vessel of a Filipino fishing boat near Recto Bank was accidental. According to Gordon, “the issue is people are not supposed to be abandoned at sea,” which means Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang, for him, missed the point. “The crux of the matter is you left the fishermen in peril of the sea. Under the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, June 19, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte over his stance in the Recto Bank incident that saw a Chinese vessel hitting a Filipino fishing boat and abandoning it. “Yan ang problema. Pagdating sa China, consistent siya, naduduwag siya,” De Lima said in a brief ambush interview at Branch 34 of the Metropolitan Trial Court, where she attended a hearing on her disobedience to summons case. Asked if […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte is set to fly to Thailand this week to attend the 34th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit where he would join other ASEAN leaders in discussing important regional issues. Duterte is expected to push the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea during the ASEAN Summit in Thailand with the Philippines being the ASEAN-China dialogue coordinator, an official from the Department of Foreign Affairs said. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte already has a preferred Speaker of the next House of Representatives. A Radyo Agila source said the President made the decision in a meeting with neophyte congressmen in the Palace on Tuesday, June 18. The source, however, refused to divulge the name of Duterte’s choice, saying it would be relayed to Senator Manny Pacquiao, who was chosen by the PDP-Laban party, of which the President is chair, to make […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Wednesday, June 19, slammed Senator Panfilo Lacson’s comment the Mutual Defense Treaty could be invoked in the Recto Bank incident that saw a Chinese vessel hitting a Filipino fishing vessel and abandoning it. In a radio interview, Panelo said in the first place, there was “no act of aggression” so far. “Hindi pa natin alam kung ano bang nangyari doon, is it intentional? Assuming na intentional, ang […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, June 19, hailed the drop in the number of families who rate themselves as poor, based on a recent Social Weather Stations survey. “The Duterte administration continues to break barriers,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According to Panelo, this was “notwithstanding the divisive and destructive political propaganda war waged by the President’s critics and detractors during the campaign period for the midterm elections when the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a new Commission on Higher Education commissioner. Based on papers released by the Palace on Wednesday, June 19, Aldrin Darilag assumes the post left vacant by Prospero De Vera III. De Vera was promoted to CHED chairman in October last year. Darilag will serve as CHED commissioner until July 21, 2020.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law requiring clean restrooms and free Internet in the country’s transport terminals. Under Republic Act 11311 signed on April 17, terminals are also required to have lactating stations for mothers. The law does not cover deluxe sanitary facilities. Each day a transport facility does not comply with the clean sanitary facilities, it will be fined P5,000, and another P5,000 for each day fees from passengers are […]
