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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Dec. 21, said he wanted the Road Board abolished, putting an end to debates about what he believed the Road Board’s fate should be. “I have always been wary about this office because it has been the milking cow of people who are in government,” he said of the office tasked to determine where the motor vehicle users’ charges go. The MVUC is paid by motorists upon registration of […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Koko Pimentel on Friday, Dec. 21, confirmed President Rodrigo Duterte indeed wants the Road Board abolished. According to Pimentel, the chief executive told this to him during Senator Manny Pacquiao’s 40th birthday celebration in General Santos. “..President Duterte called for me and told me in very categorical terms that ‘we should abolish the road board’,” Pimentel said. He said he told Duterte that the Senate, under Pimentel’s leadership then, already passed […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Dec. 21, said the support of a body of the United Nations Human Rights Council for a probe into what it said were the human rights violations against Senator Leila de Lima constituted an “intrusion of our sovereignty.” “They have been saying that and we’ve been saying that the problem with you people is you’re listening to the critics of this administration. You are not investigating on your own,” […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Education (DepEd) prodded the Ateneo De Manila University to conduct the proper investigation and other actions regarding the various bullying incidents caught on videos that had gone viral involving one junior high school student. DepEd said that it had already “written the principal” of Ateneo High School to let the school officials know that the bullying incidents had already reached the department. For now, DepEd said that it would […]
(Eagle News) — There will be no work in Malacanang and in other government offices on Dec. 26. This was according to Memorandum Circular 55 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea. The suspension, according to the memo, covers local government units, state-run firms, government financial institutions, state universities and colleges, among others. According to the memo, agencies whose functions involve the delivery of basic and health services and other services that include disaster preparedness and response […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — London’s Gatwick Airport, paralyzed for more than two days after dozens of drone sightings, said it planned to reopen Friday for a “limited number” of flights. “Gatwick’s runway is currently available and a limited number of aircraft are scheduled for departure and arrival,” the airport said on Twitter. It advised passengers to check the status of their flights before travelling to the airport. But police have still yet to find […]
(Eagle News) — The national costume used by Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray during the pageant in Thailand will be on display at the National Historical Commission of the Philippines museum starting this Rizal Day, December 30. The display of the costume was significant to the official launching of the National Quincentennial Committee—a government agency mandated to facilitate the celebration of the “500th anniversary of the Victory at Mactan” which is considered the very first […]
HAWIJA, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi authorities said they uncovered a new mass grave containing the remains of dozens of people in an area of northern Kirkuk province once held by the Islamic State group. Security forces have discovered dozens of mass graves since they drove out IS in 2017 after three years of occupation of swathes of northern and western Iraq. The United Nations said in November that more than 200 mass graves containing up to […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA / Richard CARTER Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese prosecutors re-arrested former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn over fresh allegations Friday, apparently dashing his hopes of being home for this coming holiday in the latest twist to a roller-coaster saga. The case of the once-revered 64-year-old tycoon has gripped Japan and the business world since he was arrested as he stepped off his private jet at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on November 19. […]
(Eagle News) — Tiniyak ni Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu isang bagong tanawin ang masisilayan sa Manila Bay susunod na taon. Ito’y matapos tanggapin ni cimatu ang hamon na pagsasagawa ng rehabilitasyon sa Manila Bay. Ayon kay Cimatu, nagsimula na siyang makipagpulong sa mga kinauukulang ahensya para masimulan na ang rehabilitasyon sa unang buwan ng bagong taon. Aniya gagawin nila ang lahat upang maibaba ang coliform level sa Manila Bay […]
Adds issue should be addressed “internally,” within school policy parameters (Eagle News) — For Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, “circumspection” should be exercised in dealing with the bullying incident in Ateneo Junior High School. According to Guevarra, an Atenean, “we are dealing with growing up and adolescent children lacking in maturity and discernment here.” “..Sensitive care and understanding should be extended to those young children who commit and/or are at the receiving end of these acts,” […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The world’s only known albino orangutan has been released back into the jungle more than a year after she was found emaciated and bloody in a remote corner of Borneo, an Indonesian NGO said Friday. Environmentalists rescued “Alba” from a cage where she was being kept as a pet by villagers in Central Kalimantan in April last year. She was found with dry blood smeared around her nose — the result […]
