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Resolusyon para payagan ang NHA na ipamahagi ang ‘di na-okupahang housing units, aprub na kay Pangulong Duterte

(Eagle News) — Inaprubahan na ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang joint resolution na nagbibigay ng kapangyarihan sa National Housing Authority (NHA) na ipamahagi ang mga hindi na-okupahang housing units sa mga kwalipikadong benepisyaryo. Nilagdaan nitong May 9 ang nasabing joint resolution. Ang mga hindi na-okupahang pabahay ng mga tauhan ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) at Bureau of […]

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Fujimori says he will not appeal travel ban

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Ex-president Alberto Fujimori said Wednesday he would not oppose a judge’s ban on his leaving Peru ahead of a new trial. “I will not appeal. All I want is to have time with my family and write my memoirs,” the ex-president, 79, said on Twitter. Fujimori, president from 1990-2000, had been serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes that included commanding death squads that killed suspected civilian sympathizers of leftwing guerrillas […]

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Unang 2 taon na pagpapatupad ng SHS, naging maganda – DepEd

(Eagle News) — Naging maganda ang unang dalawang taon ng pagpapatupad ng Senior High School (SHS) sa bansa. Ayon kay Education Secretary Leonor Briones, natamo nila ang dobleng bilang ng mga mag-aaral na pumasok at nakapagtapos ng kanilang academic strand. Binigyang-diin pa ni Briones na umabot sa 1.2 milyong estudyante ang nakapagtapos sa Senior High School. Sa kabila ito ng pangamba ng ilan na maraming bilang ng mga estudyante ang mag-da-drop out pagkatapos na makakumpleto […]

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PNP Chief Albayalde, nababagalan sa imbestigasyon sa pananambang kay Cebu Mayor Loot

(Eagle News) — Nababagalan si Philippine National Police Chief Director General Oscar Albayalde sa imbestigasyon sa pananambang kay Daanbantayan, Cebu Mayor Vicente Loot kung saan apat sa kasamahan nito ang nasugatan. Tatlong araw ng mahigit ang lumipas mula nang mangyari ang pananambang wala pang makuhang impormasyon ang PNP sa panig nina Mayor Loot at mga kasamahan nito. Ang dahilan hindi pa nagbibigay ng kanilang sinumpaang pahayag ang kampo ni Loot. Paliwanag ni Gen. John Bulalacao, […]

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Police search scandal-tainted Malaysian ex-premier’s home

by M. Jegathesan Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysian police searched the home of scandal-tainted former premier Najib Razak on Thursday as the new government probes a massive graft scandal after sweeping to power in historic elections. At least a dozen police vehicles converged on Najib’s family compound in the capital Kuala Lumpur in the early hours, with a number of officers entering the home, an AFP journalist saw. Najib’s lawyer said […]

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Harden, Davis, James finalists for NBA MVP award

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Houston’s James Harden, Cleveland’s LeBron James and Anthony Davis of New Orleans are the finalists announced Wednesday for NBA Most Valuable Player honors. Harden, the league’s leading scorer in the regular season with an average of 30.4 points per game, appears the favorite to succeed Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook as MVP when the awards are announced on June 25. The Rockets star, who was runner-up in the voting […]

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Duterte cites characteristics next Chief Justice should have

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 16, said he wanted a person who is known for his or her integrity as the next Chief Justice. “Of course it could not be a politician, lalo na hindi babae,” Duterte said. Duterte made the comment  after Maria Lourdes Sereno’s appointment as Chief Justice was nullified by the Supreme Court, with a vote of 8-6. The decision stems from a quo warranto petition filed by Solicitor General […]

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg agrees closed-door talks with MEPs

by Alex Pigman Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet European Parliament members behind closed-doors to answer questions in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a top official said on Wednesday. Senior lawmakers have “agreed that Mark Zuckerberg should come to clarify issues related to the use of personal data in a meeting with representatives of the European Parliament,” the parliament’s leader Antonio Tajani said in […]

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France says N.Korea must demonstrate ‘sincerity to negotiate’

PARIS, France (AFP) — North Korea must “demonstrate its sincerity to negotiate on its denuclearisation”, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday after Pyongyang threatened to cancel its summit with US President Donald Trump. “Highs and lows can come along as the recent news from the peninsula shows, but we must not lose sight of the goal,” Le Drian said during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. Referring to the “complete […]

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Red alert raised after ash bursts from Hawaii volcano

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A massive plume of volcanic ash burst from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue warnings about air quality and the likelihood of a major eruption. The Hawaiian County Civil Defense Agency said rock falls and gas explosions from one of the craters on Kilauea had caused the ash plume which was drifting downwind to the southwest. Authorities said the ash cloud was as high as 10,000 […]

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Trump says US not notified yet on North Korea threat to cancel summit

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump sounded a note of caution Wednesday about his much-vaunted summit with Kim Jong Un, saying “we’ll see” after Pyongyang threatened to cancel. Trump said the US government had not received any official word of a change in plans for the June 12 meeting in Singapore. “We haven’t been notified at all. We’ll have to see,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “We haven’t seen anything. […]

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President Duterte says “declaring war” vs China over militarization pointless, but PHL will still use arbitral ruling

  (Eagle News) — President Duterte said there was no point in “declaring war” against China over its militarization in disputed areas in the West Philippine Sea, even as he said he had told China’s President Xi Jinping that he would be still be asserting the arbitral ruling that the Philippines won. “There was this arbitral ruling because of the conflicting claimants. You must remember that it’s not only China — in reality, not China […]

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