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BEIJING, China (AFP) — The death toll in a landslide that buried a village in southwest China rose to 24 on Friday, with 27 people still missing three days after the disaster, state media said. Four more bodies were found on Friday after five, including two children and a mother with a baby, were unearthed the day before in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, according to official news outlets. Eleven people have been found alive […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — The death toll from monsoon storms in Bangladesh rose above 100 Friday with flood levels still rising in many parts of the country, officials said. About 20 people have died in 48 hours, taking the toll to 104, making it one of the worst monsoons in years, officials said. Most victims have drowned but some have been killed by landslides, snake bites and lightning strikes. Five girls aged between six […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte vetoed the Security of Tenure bill because its definition of what was prohibited contracting was “sweeping.” In his veto message, Duterte said that the definition “effectively (proscribes) forms of contractualization that are not particularly unfavorable to the employees involved.” According to Duterte, while labor-only contracting should be prohibited, “legitimate subcontracting should be allowed, provided that the contractor is well capitalized, has sufficient investments, and affords its employees all […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has directed the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the killing of lawyer Anthony Trinidad. Guevarra issued the order after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered a thorough probe into his death in Negros Oriental. Trinidad was driving his car when he was ambushed by unidentified motorcycle-riding men in Guihulngan City last Tuesday. His wife was injured. The Palace has condemned the incident. “We will prosecute these killers and ensure that they […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice panel probing the sedition complaint against Vice President Leni Robredo and others has set the first hearing this August. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said the hearing was scheduled on Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. Apart from Robredo, facing the charges also for libel, cyber libel, harboring a criminal and estafa over the Ang Totoong Narcolist videos against President Rodrigo Duterte’s family are Senator Leila de Lima, Antonio Trillanes IV, some […]
(Eagle News)–A party-list representative was briefly held at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport after he allegedly cracked a bomb joke on Thursday, July 25. Maj. Querico Tomotorgo, chief of the Philippine National Police Aviation Station 2, said in an interview over radio dzbb that APEC Rep. Sergio Dagooc was briefly held at Terminal 2 after the incident prior to his flight to Cagayan de Oro. According to Tomotorgo, Dagooc cracked the joke to NAIA personnel, […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of the Interior and Local Government has floated the possibility of closing some areas in El Nido, Palawan for rehabilitation. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said in letters to Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu that Bacuit Bay and Corong Corong Outfall “may be closed from water activities to preserve the area and prevent the tourists and locals from contracting diseases.” Año made the remark after a ground assessment from […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, July 26, assured the public of “utmost fairness” in the resolution of the sedition complaint filed against Vice President Leni Robredo and several others. “The evidence, or the lack of it, will speak for itself,” Guevarra said. According to Guevarra, “in the ordinary course of things, the complaint shall be dismissed as to those respondents against whom no evidence is presented..” “…while those against whom sufficient evidence is […]
(Eagle News)–A thunderstorm advisory has been hoisted over several areas in Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said moderate to heavy rainshowers are expected over Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Bataan, Pampanga, Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan and Batangas. The conditions, PAGASA said, will last for two hours. The same conditions are already being felt in Bamban, Tarlac and Mabalacat, Pampanga. “All are advised to take precautionary measures against the impacts associated with these hazards which […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte has signed Republic Act 11346 which raised the excise tax on all tobacco products as a move to “protect the right to health of the Filipino people.” Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea announced that President Duterte signed House Bill No. 8677 and its counterpart bill in the Senate, Senate Bill no. 2233 into law on Thursday, July 25. The new law, RA 11346, would impose higher excise taxes on cigarettes from P35 […]
Two of their cohorts remain at large, authorities say (Eagle News)–Authorities have arrested two Bureau of Internal Revenue officials for the alleged extortion of P75 million, but their two alleged cohorts remain at large. The suspects, identified as Alfredo Pagdilao Jr., 58, chief assessment officer at BIR-Pasig; Agripina Vallestero, 61, revenue officer; were nabbed in a joint entrapment operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation and the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission on Saturday, July 20. […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said two missiles fired under his supervision were newly designed tactical weapons that sent a “solemn warning” to the South over plans to hold military drills with the United States. Thursday’s missile tests were the first since Kim and US President Donald Trump agreed to resume nuclear talks during an impromptu meeting last month in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. […]
