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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Sept. 7, suggested his daughter Davao Mayor Sara Duterte could succeed him in the future. “Kung di man ako makabayad sa inyo, andiyan man si Inday. Mayor man siya… she might be… in the future, pwede niyong malapitan. Inday is good. Marunong. Marunong sumipa, marunong sa lahat,” Duterte said in a speech before the Filipino community in Jordan. Duterte noted that his daughter was the “alpha” in their family. […]
(Eagle News)–Net trust in President Rodrigo Duterte is still very good in the second quarter of 2018, with 70 percent of Filipinos having much trust in him, a Social Weather Stations survey said. According to results of the survey done from June 27 to 30, only 18 percent were undecided, and 13 percent had little trust in the President, yielding a net trust rating of +57. The SWS said that this was an 8-point decline […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday, Sept. 7, insisted President Rodrigo Duterte wants him arrested even without a warrant. “The AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and PNP (Philippine National Police) still have orders to have me arrested even without a warrant,” Trillanes, who has neen holed up in the Senate since Proclamation No. 572 declared void ab initio the amnesty granted to him, said. Trillanes made the statement even after Presidential Spokesperson Harry […]
(Eagle News)—-President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Sept. 7, blamed the high inflation rate on the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on select products. In a speech before the Filipino community, Duterte clarified, however, that he was “not apologizing.” He said the government was “trying to control it.” Also on Friday, the Department of Finance released a list of measures it said would be implemented to arrest inflation, which the Philippine Statistics Authority pegged at […]
(Eagle News) — The police have placed in their custody several suspects in the Lamitan blast in Basilan that killed several people. A report said the suspects were members of the Abu Sayyaf Group. The police have yet to release the identities of the suspects. On July 31, a bomb went off near an Army detachment along the Magwakit intersection of Barangays Bulanting and Colonia, killing at least ten people. The bomb was allegedly intended to […]
(Eagle News) –Senate President Tito Sotto on Friday, Sept. 7, banned the conduct of a mass and the entry of supporters of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV in the Senate premises over the weekend. “There is a church nearby. Senate is closed on weekends,” Sotto said. Besides, according to Sotto, “only staff of senators are allowed.” He added they had to turn off the air-conditioning units “at certain times and on weekends because (they) will bog […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)–Billionaire businessman Richard DeVos, owner of the NBA’s Orlando Magic and founder of health and home care product manufacturer Amway, died Thursday at his Ada, Michigan, home. He was 92. DeVos, the father-in-law of US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, bought the Magic in 1991 and under his watch took five division titles and reached the NBA Finals in 1995, losing to Houston, and 2009, falling to the Los Angeles Lakers. “Mr. DeVos’ […]
Presidential son says Manases Carpio to charge the senator with libel, too By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte has filed libel charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The charges filed before the Davao City Prosecutors Office on Thursday, Sept. 6, stem from what the presidential son said was Trillanes’ “defamatory publication, with malice, afterthought, and evil intent to malign, ridicule and harass me and my family during a teleradyo […]
(Eagle News) — The Makati court where the Department of Justice lodged a second motion for an alias warrant and hold departure order against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will not issue the warrant just yet. Lawyer Diosfa Valencia, the Clerk of Court of the Makati Regional Trial Court’s Branch 150, said they have to retrieve case records first. Trillanes, who played a prominent role in the Oakwood mutiny and Peninsula Manila siege in 2003 and […]
by Hazel WARD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Nearly six in 10 deaths from treatable conditions in low- and middle-income countries result from low-quality healthcare — a bigger killer than insufficient access to treatment, researchers said Wednesday. Every year, about five million people in these countries die as a result of sub-standard care, according to a report published by The Lancet medical journal. This was out of 8.6 million total deaths from treatable conditions, […]
by Kyoko Hasegawa and Richard Carter Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs scrabbled through the mud Friday to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18. Around 22 people are still unaccounted for in the small northern countryside town of Atsuma, where a cluster of dwellings were wrecked when a hillside collapsed with the force […]
(Eagle News) — No Filipino was hurt in the foiled missile attack in the Saudi city of Najran, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to Consul General Edgar Badajos of the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah, based on a report from Filipino community leader Fayes Mailao, all the 7,850 Filipinos in Najran are safe. These include the Filipino nurses who work in the two hospitals which are near the area where debris from the blasted missile […]
