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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to conduct his own investigation into the release of convicts of under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Senator Bong Go, Duterte’s former longterm aide, said the President was particularly interested in knowing if there was corruption in their release. A joint Department of Justice and Department of the Interior and Local Government is now looking into the implementing rules and regulations of the GCTA law, which increases the […]
(Eagle News)–Three others convicted for the rape and murder of Aileen Sarmenta and the murder of her friend Allan Gomez in 1993 are already deceased. According to Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon, who faced the Senate hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Monday, Sept. 2, George Medialdea, Rogelio Corcolon and Zoilo Ama died in prison. Faeldon could not say, however, the cause of their deaths. Apart from Medialdea, Corcolon and Ama, former […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Most Asian markets fell on Monday as fresh Chinese and US tariffs on goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars kicked in, though Donald Trump reiterated that the two sides were still due to holds talks this month. Hong Kong was also being weighed by another weekend of violence, fuelling worries about possible Chinese intervention in the financial hub, while the unrest has also hit property firms and Macau’s casinos. […]
by Martyn WOOD NEW YORK, United States (AFP ) — Top-ranked defending champion Novak Djokovic said “life goes on” after a shoulder injury forced him to quit Sunday’s clash with Stan Wawrinka in the last 16 of the US Open. Wawrinka, the 23rd seed and 2016 champion, led Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 2-1 when the Serb quit with a nagging left shoulder problem that had troubled him since the start of the tournament. “The pain was […]
(Eagle News)–The second division of the Commission on Elections has ordered the dismissal of the election protest filed by former Pasig Mayor Robert Eusebio against now-Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto. Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said the second division cited the “insufficiency in form and substance “of the election protest in its unanimous decision. “It failed to reflect a detailed specification of the acts or omissions complained of showing the electoral frauds, anomalies, or irregularities in the […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Eight warships, four aircraft and more than a thousand personnel from the US and ten Southeast Asian countries will join maritime drills kicking off Monday, as part of a joint exercise extending into the flashpoint South China Sea. The first Asean-US Maritime Exercise (AUMX) between the regional bloc and Washington lasts for five days, starting at the Sattahip Naval Base in Thailand and ending in Singapore. The drills come at a […]
(Eagle News)–Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon on Monday, Sept. 2, denied he had signed the release order for former Calauan, Laguna Antonio Sanchez. Sanchez was convicted of the rape and murder of Aileen Sarmenta, and of the murder of her friend Allan Gomez. In the hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance before the Senate, Faeldon said he merely signed a memorandum that jumpstarts the process of the release. The memorandum he signed he […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Comedian and actor Kevin Hart was hospitalized Sunday with major back injuries after his car crashed into a ditch, according to highway authorities. According to the California Highway Patrol report, Hart was riding in his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda — a powerful vintage car — with two other people in the wee hours of Sunday on Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles County. The driver, identified as Jared Black, lost control of […]
(Eagle News)–Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon has confirmed those convicted in the slay-rape of the Chiong sisters have been released. Faeldon made the admission Josman Aznar, Ariel Balansag and Alberto Caño had been released from the New Bilibid Prison under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law under questioning by Senator Panfilo Lacson during the Senate hearing the GCTA law. The memorandum for release, Lacson said, was signed by Technical Chief Superintendent Maria Fe Marquez. […]
(Eagle News)–The grant of good conduct time allowances even to convicts of heinous crimes was the prevailing practice since Republic Act 10592 was passed, Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon said. In a hearing on the GCTA law by the Senate, Faeldon noted that this was based on the interpretation of the law that convicts even of heinous crimes are not excluded from coverage of the law. Faeldon said because of this, a perusal of […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters threw morning rush hour train travel into chaos on Monday, kicking off another day of potential turmoil after a weekend featuring some of the worst violence in three months of anti-government protests. The global financial hub is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis as a largely leaderless movement has drawn millions on to the streets to protest against what they see as an erosion of […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Surigao del Norte early Monday, Sept. 2. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit 32 kilometers southeast of General Luna at 2:53 a.m. Depth of focus was 2 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
