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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has accused former Bacolod City Mayor Monico Puentevella of twisting his words to make it appear reelectionist Mayor Evelio Leonardia was among those included in the narco-list. In a video uploaded on his Facebook account, President Rodrigo Duterte said he never mentioned Leonardia as among those with illegal drug links. “Yung sinabi ni Mayor Monico na pinangalanan ko si Leonardia as one of the..di totoo yan. I was purposedly […]
(Eagle News) – The rise of China as a new world power is good for developing countries as this would “create a world where the lesser have a chance,” according to Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., after his bilateral meeting with his counterpart Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in China. In his statement at a joint press briefing with the Chinese foreign minister on Wednesday, March 20, Locsin said he and […]
(Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has rejected the application of Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek to operate as a transport network company in the Philippines. In a statement, the Department of Transportation said it rejected the application of Velox Technology Philippines Inc. “for failure to pass nationality requirements in the country’s foreign ownership laws.” Velox Philippines is a local subsidiary of Go-Jek. According to the LTFRB, the Pre-Accreditation Committee of the LTFRB saw […]
(Eagle News)—Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales have filed a communication against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court. The communication— filed on March 15, two days before the Philippines’ official withdrawal from the ICC—was for his alleged crimes against humanity in connection with China’s expansive claims in the West Philippine Sea. Del Rosario has been a vocal critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s stance in the […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A boulder-sized fish of a kind known to “sink yachts” has washed up on an Australian beach. The 1.8 metre (six feet) specimen — believed to be a Mola Mola, or ocean sunfish — came ashore near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia at the weekend. The enormous creature is distinct for both its size and peculiar shape featuring a flattened body and fins. The fish can […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — More than 800 South Korean couples were livestreamed having sex in love motels, Seoul police said Thursday in one of the largest-scale and most intrusive examples yet of the country’s spycam epidemic. The hyper-wired South has been battling the increasingly widespread proliferation of so-called “molka”, or spycam videos, which largely involve men secretly filming women in schools and toilets, among other places. The latest case is unusual for involving couples […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Wednesday, March 20, arrested a National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant and a retired priest in Cavite. Renante Gamara, 61, and Arturo Joseph Balagat from the Diocese of San Bernardino in California were nabbed after a search of their “safehouse” in Imus around 5:30 p.m. yielded two hand grenades, a 9-mm caliber gun, among others, National Capital Region Police Office director Guillermo Eleazar said. According to Eleazar, the police had been […]
(Eagle News) — Over P6 million worth of suspected shabu was recovered in an abandoned car in Bulacan on Thursday, March 21. The police said they found the P6.8 million worth of suspected illegal drugs in a black Daewoo car with plate number XKP-622 in Camachilihan, Bustos, following a tip. The suspected drugs, they said, bore a packaging similar to the packaging of the suspected shabu seized from an exclusive subdivision in Muntinlupa on Tuesday, March 19. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Singapore’s trade minister said Wednesday he was hopeful that an Asia-wide trade pact, which is backed by China and excludes the United States, could be sealed by the end of the year. On a visit to Washington, Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said that a clearer picture would emerge on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in May after elections in four countries that are part of […]
LYON, France (AFP) — Catholic Church’s Pope Francis has rejected the resignation of French cardinal Philippe Barbarin who was handed a six-month suspended jail sentence this month for failing to report sex abuse by a priest under his authority, prompting surprise among Church leaders and condemnation from victims. The pope’s decision, announced by Barbarin in a statement and confirmed by the Vatican, comes ahead of a judicial appeal of the case. But it also […]
(Eagle News) — Two leftists have asked the Supreme Court to nullify what they said were the sweetheart deals entered into by Meralco with its own generating companies in 2016. For this, Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares and Rep. Carlos Zarate filed a petition-in-intervention with an application for urgent relief by way of temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction to allow them to intervene in the case originally filed by Alyansa Para sa […]
by Agence France Presse A US woman who says she is descended from slaves who were photographed in 1850 by a racist Harvard University professor on Wednesday sued the university over the “exploitation” of the images of her ancestors. Tamara Lanier filed suit in the northeastern state of Massachusetts over the photographs taken in South Carolina of a slave and his daughter, known only by their first names: Renty — the patriarch of her […]
