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(Eagle News) – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US is ready to defend the Philippines in case of any “armed attack” on Philippine forces in the South China Sea. Pompeo noted that the Philippines as an island nation “depends on a free and undistracted access to the seas” and that China’s “island building and military activities” threatened the country’s sovereignty. “China’s Island building and military activities in the South […]
They are unlike American firms which operate with “highest standards of transparency, adhere to rule of law,” he says (Eagle News) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, March 1, warned the Philippines against entering into deals with Chinese state-run or state-backed firms. Speaking to the media at the Department of Foreign Affairs where he met with Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., Pompeo said American companies were the “best partners” in infrastructure, development, […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Information and Communication Technology, together with the Philippine National Police, is now investigating the sinister “Momo challenge” that has recently been linked to the death of an 11-year old boy. Information and Communication Technology Acting Secretary Eliseo Rio Jr on Friday, March 1, called on parents to report to them any suspicious online and social media activity of their children that might be connected to the “Momo” which […]
(Eagle News)– The Palace on Friday, March 1, said it still wants a review of the Mutual Defense Treaty. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement even after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the assurance his country would come to the Philippines’ aid should it be attacked in the disputed West Philippine Sea, based on the treaty. According to Panelo, although the Palace was “pleased to note that the US has made a […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday, March 1, slammed as “revolting” what he said were the insertions and realignments being done by some lawmakers to the P3.7-trillion national budget for 2019 even after the bill was ratified by both houses of Congress. He said this was as some lawmakers felt “anxiety” for the slashing of the pork barrel allocations of at least 60 colleagues after the bicameral ratification of the proposed national budget. “I have it on […]
(Eagle News)—-A Department of Justice panel has found probable cause to indict former Health Secretary Janette Garin over the deaths of children who were administered the controversial vaccine Dengvaxia. In a statement, the DOJ panel said it also found probable cause to indict several Department of Health officials, and officials of Sanofi Pasteur, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and the Food and Drug Administration on the same charges. The panel recommended that eight […]
(Eagle News)—-A Syrian national was arrested after he allegedly tried to enter the country using a Kiribati passport, the Bureau of Immigration said on Friday, March 1. BI Port Operations Chief Grifton Medina said Al Naasan Ibrahim was arrested upon his arrival from Malaysia at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Feb. 22. This was after he allegedly admitted to being Syrian, and to merely paying US$5,000 to a Jordanian national based in Siem Reap, Cambodia […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte still has no specific plans to visit the United States so far. When asked on Friday, March 1, about whether Duterte would finally make the visit, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said “specific dates will have to wait for the end of the elections.” Locsin noted the President, after all, was busy endorsing his candidates for the polls slated in May. In any case, he said he has already conveyed […]
(Eagle News)–Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. believes there is no need to review the Mutual Defense Treaty to ensure the United States will come to its aid should China attack the Asian country over the dispute in the South China Sea. “In vagueness lies the best deterrence,” Locsin said in a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday, March 1. “We are very […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will appoint “in the next few days” an undersecretary who will supervise the citizens’ complaint hotline 8888. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea made the revelation as he announced government plans to create another office that will monitor the public’s complaints, and to incorporate a text messaging system to the current setup in an interview over dzmm radio. “Talagang tututukan na yan because dati, it was under an office of a director..,” Medialdea […]
(Eagle News) –The country’s economic managers assured farmers they would have the necessary assistance to protect them from the possible adverse effects of the lifting of the quantitative restrictions on rice imports under the Rice Tariffication Law. Budget Benjamin Diokno said at least P5 billion has been released under the 2018 national budget for this purpose. He said this was apart from the P5 billion in Special Allotment Release Order issued to the Department of […]
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Thursday, Feb. 28, denied the government was waging a war on human rights defenders. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement as he slammed the Observatory of Human Rights Defenders report that said the Duterte administration “has taken measures that have actively contributed to an increasingly hostile environment for human rights defenders.” According to Panelo, the allegations in the report were “a rehash of the old issues thrown against the administration.” “One […]
