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(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, Feb. 24, said he did not favor the deportation of Chinese workers in the country. “Yung mga Chinese dito, hayaan mo ‘yan na dito magtrabaho. Hayaan mo,” he said in a speech during a PDP-Laban event in Laguna. According to Duterte, this was because there were “300,000 Filipinos in China.” “Eh kung umalis ‘yung [300,000] of them?” he asked. Some senators want a crackdown on Chinese illegal workers, with […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Feb. 23, slammed Senator Leila de Lima over her comments against the Build, Build, Build program, saying it would rather “ignore” her as “her senses apparently have flown to the cuckoo’s nest.” “A detained senator from the opposition has described the Build, Build, Build program, ‘grossly inefficient,’ among other nonsensical descriptives and false narratives…We will just watch her in amusement as she cantankerously pontificates like a headless chicken running berserk,” […]
Ninety-eight workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, officials said Saturday, in the latest case of alcohol poisoning in the country. The deaths in Assam state came less than two weeks after tainted liquor killed about 100 people in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In addition to the latest toll, at least 200 more people were still hospitalised, according to a […]
A top Catholic cardinal admitted Saturday that Catholic church files on priests accused of sexually abusing children were destroyed or never even drawn up in a move which allowed paedophiles to prey on others. “Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,” German Cardinal Reinhard Marx told a landmark Vatican summit on tackling paedophilia within the clergy. “Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated […]
President Nicolas Maduro’s security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday on a crowd awaiting the distribution of humanitarian aid at the Venezuela-Colombia border as tensions spiked ahead of an opposition deadline to bring in food and medical aid. “We want to work!” people chanted as they faced Venezuelan National Guard riot police blocking the crossing at the Urena border bridge to Colombia, one of several ordered closed Maduro late Friday. In the confusion, […]
(Eagle News)–Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Nestor Espenilla passed away on Saturday night. Espenilla, who had been battling tongue cancer, was 60 years old. He was appointed BSP governor in 2017.
(Eagle News)–Former Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan is the 12th senatorial bet President Rodrigo Duterte is endorsing. “Yes. Alunan is 12th in PRRD’s list. They are friends and bilib si PRRD kay Alunan,” Senator Koko Pimentel, who is among those included in Duterte’s slate, said. Apart from Alunan and Pimentel, Duterte’s senatorial slate is composed of former Philippine National Police chief Ronald Dela Rosa, former special assistant to the president Bong Go, former presidential political adviser […]
(Eagle News)—The Bureau of Customs will conduct its own probe of the blaze that hit its Port of Manila building in Manila on Friday, Feb. 22. “We have our Enforcement and Security Service securing the affected offices, and our Intelligence Group and the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service have been tasked to identify the cause of the flame,” Customs Commissioner Rey Guerrero said in a statement on Saturday, Feb. 24. According to Guerrero, the situation […]
(Eagle News)–The national flag will be flown at half-mast on Sunday, Feb. 24, in honor of the late National Artist for Architecture Bobby Mañosa. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the Office of the President gave the order for the flag to be displayed as such on Mañosa’s interment “as a sign of mourning..” Panelo said this will be done “in all places where (the flag) is displayed in the country and in Philippine embassies abroad..” […]
(Eagle News)—The Manila International Airport Authority announced the cancellation of some flights on Saturday, Feb. 23. The cancellation was due to bad weather in Guam, it said. Below is a list: UA 184: Manila – Guam UA 183: Guam – Manila
(Eagle News)—Over P50 million worth of property was lost in two fires in Manila on Friday night. The first fire took place in the Bureau of Customs in Manila around 9 p.m. The blaze started on the third floor of the P-O-M building which housed records, and quickly spread to other structures including the Port of Manila. “Yung building po na yun, isang isolated na building.. Pag stockpile yan, yan po ay madaling masunog at […]
(Eagle News)—-The Department of Education is studying the Department of Health’s proposed “no-vaccination, no-enrollment policy” in public schools following the increase in measles cases in the country. “As much as there is a growing need to reinvigorate the campaign for the importance of vaccination, Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones emphasizes that the proposed policy must take into consideration the human rights of learners, especially their access to quality basic education,” the DepEd said. According to […]
