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(Eagle News) — After receiving a relayed instruction for her not to attend cabinet meetings anymore starting Monday (December 5), Vice President Leni Robredo announced that she is resigning from President Duterte’s cabinet. In a statement issued on Sunday, Robredo said that she is tendering his resignation as Chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) on Monday. She said she arrived at this decision after she received a text message from Cabinet […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial telephone conversation with the leader of Taiwan was just a “courtesy call,” US Vice President-elect Mike Pence said Sunday. “It was nothing more than taking a courtesy call from a democratically elected leader,” Pence told ABC’s “This Week” program, speaking about the Friday call between Trump and Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen, which broke decades of US diplomatic policy and risks creating a serious rift with China. Washington […]
(Eagle News) – The Iglesia Ni Cristo historical biographical film, “Felix Manalo” bagged a total of five awards, including the much coveted “Best Picture” in the 64th FAMAS (Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences) awards Sunday night (December 4). The film about the first executive minister of the Iglesia Ni Cristo also bagged the Best Director award for Joel Lamangan, Best Actor for lead star Dennis Trillo, Best Theme Song for […]
Welcome to Carbon Neutral City! This urban development — with its own smart grid — runs entirely on locally-produced, clean energy. Here, wind parks, solar panels and biogas plants powered by cattle manure and vegetable waste, are the norm. https://youtu.be/xTMjZ3KvpZU MARIAN HENBEST FRED. GARET / AFP VIDEOGRAPHICS / AFP
DAVAO CITY (PIA) — President Rodrigo Duterte asked the graduates of the Motorcycle Riding Course for police and other personnel to be prepared to tackle terrorism and the government’s campaign against illegal drugs in its graduation rites which he attended. In his message during the event held in Matina Aplaya here on Friday, Dec. 2, the President warned that terrorism would become the country’s concern in the next two to three years and everyone should […]
Retired US astronaut and the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, was recovering after his medical evacuation from Antarctica but is not yet able to return home, his manager Christina Korp said Sunday. “He still has some congestion in his lungs so has been advised not to take the long flight home to the States and to rest in New Zealand while it clears up,” Korp said in a statement. Aldrin, 86, […]
US President-elect Donald Trump told Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte that Manila was conducting its deadly drug war “the right way”, Duterte said Saturday, in stark contrast to the criticism he received from President Barack Obama. The Philippine president called Trump late Friday evening to congratulate him on his election victory with Trump wishing him “success” in his controversial anti-crime crackdown, in which some 4,800 people have been killed since June, according to Duterte. “He […]
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba will respect Fidel Castro’s dying wish that no statues be erected in his honor and no streets be named after him, President Raul Castro said Saturday. The national assembly will introduce legislation at its next session later this month so that “his wish is fulfilled,” Raul Castro told a massive rally for his brother on the eve of his burial in the eastern city of Santiago de […]
by Glenn Chapman with Jocelyne Zablit in Los Angeles Agence France Presse OAKLAND, United States (AFP — Up to 40 people were feared dead in a huge fire that tore through a rave party in a warehouse near San Francisco, as authorities warned Saturday of a prolonged search and recovery effort. The building lacked permits for people to live and work as a group of artists did, and for the party to take […]
SAN NICOLAS, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Pinangunahan ng mga guro ang isinagawang blood letting activity sa San Nicolas West Elementary School, San Nicolas, Pangasinan nitong Biyernes, December 2. Ayon kay Ginoong Rudolf Tan, District Nurse, ang blood letting na ito ay hindi lamang sa San Nicolas isinagawa kundi may isang grupo din aniya sa Pozorrubio, Pangasinan. Dalawang beses aniya nila ginagawa ang blood letting sa isang taon para mapunuan ang kakulangan at pangangailangan ng dugo. Dagdag […]
ROXAS, Oriental Mindoro (Eagle News) – Nasunog ang 12 establisimyento at nadamay pa ang isang sub-station ng Philippine National Police sa Morente Ave., Bagumbayan, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro. Nagsimula ang nasabing sunog bandang alas 2:30 na madaling araw nitong Biyernes, Disyembre 2. Ayon kay FO3 Querube G. Peradilla ng Bureau of Fire Protection, umabot sa ika-apat na alarma ang nasabing sunog. Kaya kinailangan pa ang tulong ng mga pamatay sunog mula sa Mansalay, Bongabong at Bansud na mga kalapit bayan […]
(Eagle News)– Former Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) general manager Al Vitangcol III has posted a P60,000 bail following an order from the Sandiganbayan directing his arrest over his alleged attempt to extort $30 million from Czech railcar supplier Inekon Group. Vitangcol also described as “baseless” these new graft cases filed against him by Office of the Ombudsman over this alleged extort try. “Alam naman po natin na ang mga kasong ito ay gawa-gawa […]
