(Eagle News) — Anumang oras maaari nang maglabas ng decison ang Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148 kaugnay sa kahilingan ng Department of Justice na alias arrest warrant at hold departure order (HDO) laban kay Senator Antonio Trillanes IV kaugnay sa muling pagbuhay sa kasong kudeta ng mambabatas. At kung papabor ang decison ni Judge Andres Soriano sa justice department maaari ng arestuhin ang senador at hindi na ito maaaring magkanlong kahit nasa senado. Pasya […]
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Trump plans US exit from international postal treaty
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it plans to withdraw from an international treaty on postal rates in another moved aimed at pressuring China amid broader trade and political disputes. The United States intends to exit the system of setting postal rates for smaller packages under the Universal Postal Union “as soon as practical” and no later than Jan. 1, 2020, said a statement released by the White House press […]
US gov’t to give add’l P1.35 billion in aid for Marawi rehab
(Eagle News) — The United States government will be providing P1.35 billion ($25 million) for the Marawi rehabilitation for the next three years as part of its aid program to the Philippines. US Ambassador Kim Sung recently announced this on his visit to Marawi City. The aid project is called the Marawi Response Project, a three-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program designed to improve economic and social conditions of communities directly affected […]
Noted gov’t personalities beat deadline for COC filing for 2019 senate race
(Eagle News) — Noted government officials and personalities, including former senators seeking a senate comeback and other former government officials, beat the deadline for the filing of certificates of candidacy to run as senatorial bets for the May 2019 polls on Wednesday, October 17. Among those who filed their COCs were former presidential adviser for political affairs Francis Tolentino who is running under the PDP-Laban ruling party, former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., who […]
Enrile re-files certificate of candidacy as senate bet for May 2019 polls
(Eagle News) — Former senator Juan Ponce Enrile refiled his certificate of candidacy (COC) on Wednesday, October 17, as a senatorial candidate for next year’s elections after the wrong profession was listed in the COC he had earlier filed on Tuesday. Enrile, 94, went to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) main office in Intramuros, Manila to refile his COC where his correct profession as a “lawyer” is listed. In the first COC filed for […]
Israel’s Ambassador Harpaz makes courtesy call on INC Executive Minister, visits INC Museum and Central Temple
(Eagle News) — The Ambassador of Israel, His Excellency Rafael Harpaz, visited the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) Central Office on Wednesday morning, October 17, for a courtesy call to Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo. He also had a quick tour of the INC Museum, as well as of the INC Central Temple in Quezon City. “It was a wonderful visit. I would like to thank Brother Eduardo Manalo for his friendship […]
Asia CEO Awards honors SM’s Tessie Sy-Coson, former BSP governor Amando Tetangco as Lifetime Contributors
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service The Philippines’ biggest business awards that recognize leadership excellence honored two of the country’s leading public and private figures as Lifetime Contributors of the Year: SM Investments Vice Chairman and BDO Chairman Teresita Sy-Coson and former Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando Tetangco, Jr. Asia CEO Awards 2018 was held at the Marriott Hotel with the theme “Let’s Build this Country!” Tech changes In her acceptance speech, Tessie Sy-Coson […]
Roque changes his mind, decides to run as senate bet for May 2019 polls
(Eagle News) – Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque changed his mind and decided to run for senator in the May 2019 elections, instead of as a party-list representative, when he filed his certificate of candidacy with the Commission on Elections on Wednesday, October 17. Roque will run under the People’s Reform Party (PRP) of the late senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. He said that he was offered by President Rodrigo Duterte to run under […]
Mattis to visit toxic Agent Orange site in Vietnam
by Thomas WATKINS Agence France Presse HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AFP) — The toxic legacy of the Vietnam War will come under the spotlight again Wednesday when US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visits a former storage site for Agent Orange, which is blamed for birth defects and cancers among a million Vietnamese. US forces used what is now the Bien Hoa airport outside Ho Chi Minh City as one of the main staging grounds […]
G7 calls for ‘transparent’ probe in Khashoggi case
OTTAWA, United States (AFP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven called Tuesday for a “transparent” probe into the disappearance of a Saudi journalist and regime critic, saying they were “very troubled” by the case. Jamal Khashoggi, an insider turned critic of the conservative monarchy, was last seen on October 2 when he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to sort out marriage paperwork. “We, the G7 foreign ministers, of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, […]
World Heritage sites threatened by sea level rise
PARIS, France (AFP) — From Venice and the tower of Pisa to the medieval city of Rhodes, dozens of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean basin are deeply threatened by rising sea levels, researchers warned Tuesday. All but two of 49 UN-recognised icons of human civilization rimming the Mediterranean Sea risk being damaged by the rising watermark, soil erosion, or both, with few options for protecting most of them, they reported in the scientific […]
Two pilots killed in Ukraine fighter jet crash: military
KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine’s military said Tuesday that two pilots died when a Sukhoi fighter jet crashed during military exercises with the United States and other NATO countries. The Sukhoi-27 plane crashed at around 5:00 pm local time (1400 GMT) “during a training flight”, the army general staff said on its Facebook page, adding that “the bodies of the two pilots have been found”. The circumstances of the crash are being investigated, the statement […]
