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(Eagle News)—A majority of Filipinos believe the number of illegal drug users in their area has decreased over the past year, a recent Social Weather Stations survey showed. According to the Fourth Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey conducted from December 16 to 19, this translates to 66% of Filipino adults vis à vis the 14% who say it has increased, and the 7% who say it has remained the same. “By area, the proportion of people who […]
(Eagle News)—-The Court of Tax Appeals has denied the plea of Rappler Holdings Corp. and executive editor Maria Ressa for the charges of tax evasion to be junked against them. In junking their plea, the First Division ruled the four amended information against them accomplished their purpose. “The Supreme Court has ruled that an Information need only to state the ultimate facts constituting the offense and not the finer details of why and how the crime […]
(Eagle News)—Light rains will prevail over several parts of the Philippines, including Metro Manila, as the northeast monsoon affects the country. Visayas and Caraga will experience cloudy skies with light rains, while Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. PAGASA said the eastern section of Central and Southern Luzon, of Visayas and of Mindanao […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure providing for bigger discount rates for political advertisements during the elections. Under the new law, which amends the Fair Election Act, candidates and parties can get discounts 30 percent to 50 percent for television, from 20 percent to 40 percent for radio and 10 percent for print. The campaign period or national and party-list candidates kicked off on Tuesday, Feb. 12. It will end on […]
Other bills signed, others vetoed (Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the rice tariffication bill into law, Senate President Tito Sotto said. The signing came after the President met with various rice traders who had been opposed to the measure that essentially allows the market to be flooded with cheaper rice imports for as long as they are imposed a tax. Under the measure, rice traders can import an unlimited quantity of rice for as long […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Dozens of communities won approval to join a new Muslim-led territory in the Philippines’ south, results showed Thursday, yet the exclusion of a key rebel stronghold raised concerns about the peace process in the restive region. The results are from the second and final round of a landmark referendum that was the culmination of a decades-long process seeking to halt Muslim separatist violence that has claimed some 150,000 lives since […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Feb. 15, urged parents to have their children vaccinated for measles. The President made the brief statement over PTV-4, amid a measles outbreak declared in some parts of the country, including Metro Manila, where the number of measles cases reached 196 from Jan. 1 to 19. “Mga kababayan, dumadami ang kaso ng tigdas at ang komplikasyon nito ay mamatay ka. Sa mga anak natin, bakuna lamang ang […]
(Eagle News) – More than half of local government units within the Manila Bay watershed area have failed to comply with environmental laws, according to an assessment made by the Department of Interior and Local Government. The DILG said that 95 LGUs or 53 percent of the 178 LGUs within the Manila Bay watershed area failed to hit the indicators gauging their compliance to existing environmental laws. Sixteen of these LGUs with the worst […]
(Eagle News) — The former Rappler reporter who, along with the online news outfit’s executive editor Maria Ressa, faces a cyber libel complaint over a 2012 article published on the news site, posted bail on Friday, Feb. 15. Reynaldo Santos. Jr. voluntarily surrendered and posted a P100,000 bail before the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46. The cyber libel charges against Santos, Ressa and Rappler Inc. were filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng, who was described […]
(Eagle News) — The Judicial and Bar Council has shortlisted 13 candidates for the associate justice post left vacant by Lucas Bersamin, now the Chief Justice, in the Supreme Court. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, ex-officio JBC member, said Court of Appeals justices Edgardo delos Santos, Amy Lazaro-Javier, Eduardo Peralta, Ricardo Rosario, Japar Dimaampao, Ramon Garcia, Henri Inting, Jhosep Lopez, and Mario Lopez; Court of Tax Appeals Presiding Justice Roman Del Rosario; Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang; Court Administrator Jose […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Suspected drone activity briefly disrupted flight departures Friday from Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international traffic, the airport said. It said in a statement that departures were suspended between 10:13 (0613 GMT) and 10:45 am (0645 GMT) “due to suspected drone activity”. “Dubai Airports has worked closely with the appropriate authorities to ensure that the safety of airport operations is maintained at all times and to minimize […]
(Eagle News)–The National Press Club on Friday, Feb. 15, expressed dismay over the manner in which Rappler’s executive editor Maria Ressa was arrested, but clarified the arrest itself was not a form of “political harassment.” In a statement, the NPC said that while the way in which Ressa was arrested “smacks of bad taste” as it was reportedly done near the end of office hours “thus affording Ms. Ressa little or no time at all […]
