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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Seven policemen in Angeles City received an angry tongue-lashing from Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa after being involved in the alleged extortion of three South Korean nationals. Dela Rosa did this when he visited the Angeles City police on Wednesday. The fuming mad PNP chief said he wanted to execute the seven rogue cops by firing squad, but instead asked them to do stationary push-ups. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The group Alliance of Concerned Transport Organizations or ACTO will not join the planned nationwide “transport holiday” to be held on Monday, February 6 by other transport groups. The strike was organized to protest the plan of the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to phase-out passenger jeeps and replace them with electric jeeps. ACTO Chairman Efren De Luna said that the group decided to not join the “transport […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Top executives of Unilever and Close-Up, including security and event organizers of the May 2016 “Close-Up Summer Concert” have been charged before the Department of Justice for criminal negligence for failing to ensure the safety of concert goers, five of whom died due to drugs. The charges were filed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), together with the families of some of the victims who died in the […]
A rainbow rises from the mountains in the West Bank part of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli settlement of Ovnat, on January 28, 2017. THOMAS COEX / AFP
A picture taken on January 31, 2017 in Paris shows the Eiffel tower in a heavy fog. Ludovic MARIN / AFP
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is asking politicians to limit the number of their security aides. The measure is part of the government’s anti-illegal drugs measure. President Duterte pointed out that many mayors who were connected with the illegal drug trade were able to escape justice because of their many security aides. The President asked Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea to draft an order based on the Alunan doctrine to limit the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Former Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao, who was accused in the killing of publicist Bobby Dacer and his driver Manuel Corbito in year 2000, has surrendered to the Philippine National Police this week in Camp Crame, Quezon City. PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group – National Capital Region (CIDG-NCR) Chief Sr.Supt. Benny Tamayo on Wednesday (February 1) made this confirmation. He said that Mancao voluntarily surrendered and is currently in […]
by Thomas WATKINS Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — New Pentagon chief James Mattis on Wednesday heads to South Korea and Japan, where he will seek to reassure the key US allies about American security commitments in the region. The defense secretary’s visit marks the first overseas trip of any senior official in the government of President Donald Trump, who suggested while campaigning that America’s longstanding role in Northeast Asia could change. “The trip […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Former United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, one of the world’s most recognized South Koreans, announced Wednesday he will not stand for the presidency of his country. Ban returned home last month after a decade in New York and was widely expected to run in elections due this year, but his putative candidacy ran into a series of stumbles. “I will withdraw from politics,” he told reporters at a press conference. […]
MANILA, Philippine (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines to arrest corrupt and abusive policemen, saying that the culture of corruption in the current Philippine National Police was “very serious.” He said he personally would reorganize the police force, addressing newly promoted generals in Malacanang on Tuesday, January 31. “Let me reorganize the enforcement diyan sa drugs sa police. In the meantime, they would be arrested and I […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Ibinunyag ng bagong Commander ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa ilalim ni Western Mindanao Command (WESMINCOM) Major General Carlito Galvez, Jr., na nasa 27 pang mga bihag ang hawak pa rin ng bandidong Abu Sayyaf sa Sulu. Ayon pa sa Heneral, pahirapan aniya ang kanilang operasyon sa naturang Isla ng Sulu laban sa mga bandidong grupo lalo na at ilan sa mga residente ay ayaw nang makipagtulungan sa mga […]
BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del Norte (Eagle News) – Aprubado na ng Sangguniang Panglungsod ng Butuan City ang rekomendasyon ng CDRRMC council na ipailalim na sa state of calamity ang nasabing lalawigan. Ayon kay Vice Mayor Jose Aquino II, magagamit ng gobyerno ang 5% ng calamity funds para sa restoration, rehabilitation at relief purposes. Tinatayang nasa 32,443 pamilya mula sa 39 barangay ng Butuan ang apektado ng baha. May 6,093 na pamilya naman ang sa kasalukuyan ay nasa mga […]
