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(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 […]
By Emily Manuel Contributor, Eagle News (Eagle News) — The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) kicked off “Sandaan”, a celebration of 100 years of Philippine cinema, with a Film Ambassadors’ Night held at the Samsung Hall, in Taguig City last February 10, 2019. The event brought together filmmakers, artists of the industry, special guests, and movers of Philippine cinema. FDCP honored 89 films that received awards from prestigious international film festivals, including Shireen […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The Vatican’s envoy to France is being investigated for sexual assault after he was accused of molesting a official at the Paris mayor’s office during a ceremony last month, a judicial source told AFP. The envoy, 74-year-old Luigi Ventura, has been based in Paris since 2009 and serves as a diplomat for Catholic Church’s Pope Francis. He was accused of molesting a man at the Paris townhall on January 17 […]
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) — The New People’s Army has freed six hostages in Agusan del Sur. The six, who were being held captive since December last year, were released in Bayugan City in Agusan del Sur on Thursday, Feb. 14. They have been turned over to the 401st Infantry Brigade in Purok 12-A, Poblacion, Sibagat. President Rodrigo Duterte ended peace talks with the Communist rebels in December last year following what he said were their atrocities that […]
(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 […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Global energy demand will surge by a third over the next two decades on advancing prosperity, but Indian demand growth will eclipse that of flagging giant China, Britain’s BP forecast Thursday. “The demand for energy is set to increase significantly driven by increases in prosperity in the developing world,” BP said in its Energy Outlook 2019 for the industry. “This improvement in living standards causes energy demand to increase by […]
by Julie JAMMOT Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — With its Lego-like avatars and easy-to-learn coding for budding programmers, the online gaming app Roblox has cornered the market in younger gamers, with 80 million monthly users, many of them under 16. Now the platform, which has already taken the United States by storm, is setting its sights on Europe and Asia to become a global giant. Kids log on to the mobile app after school to guide their […]
by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — The United States’ largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is facing a sexual abuse crisis after a bombshell report revealed hundreds of predators and more than 700 victims since 1998. The report by two Texas newspapers found some 380 church leaders and volunteers have faced public accusations of abuse, mostly of children as young as three years old. Some of the accused […]
