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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Suspected Eastern Visayas drug lord Kerwin Espinosa is finalizing his judicial affidavit with the help of his lawyers, according to the Philippine National Police – Anti-Illegal Drugs Group (PNP-AIDG). Espinosa is scheduled to swear an oath on the veracity of his affidavit in front of his lawyers. According to PNP Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa, the draft of Kerwin’s affidavit contains the names of police and government officials […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson confirmed that the Senate Committee on Public Order would conduct their hearing inside Camp Crame in Quezon City to hear the testimony of alleged Eastern Visayas drug lord Kerwin Espinosa. Because of security considerations, Lacson said Wednesday’s hearing at the PNP Conference Room would be open to media but not to the public.
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacañang will not stop the widespread protests scheduled on November 25 by anti-Marcos groups. According to Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar, anyone has the freedom to express how they feel and that as long as the protesters will not violate any laws, such protest actions will be allowed.
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The National Security Adviser does not see the anti-Marcos protests as a security threat. According to National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., the government sees the anti-Marcos rallies as a form of democratic expression that should not be suppressed. “You would expect na merong kanya-kayang plano (both sides) as a matter of democratic advocacies,” Esperon said. https://youtu.be/wnJOkCBMWQQ
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The petitioners against the Marcos burial asked the Supreme Court to make the Marcos family and officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines answer for the burial of the former President at the Libingan ng mga Bayani last Friday (November 18). According to former Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo, they filed a 17-page petition for contempt asking the Supreme Court to order the respondents to pay a fine […]
Proclamation No. 524 – The Philippine celebration of the International Year of Rice in 2004, and declaring the month of November as National Rice Awareness Month WHEREAS, the Government continually supports the ideals of the United Nations (UN) and recognizes the importance of the declaration of 2004 as the International Year of Rice (IYR); WHEREAS, the Philippines was instrumental to have 2004 declared as IYR; WHEREAS, the UN Declaration of 2004 as IYR emphasizes the […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday (November 21) told all Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) commissioners to resign after he received intelligence and internal reports on alleged corruption in the commission. Duterte said he received reports on anomalies in the ERC including questionable appointments, the commission having too many consultants, and how its officials deal with contracts. In a press conference in Lima, Peru, where he is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Duterte […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The impeachment of South Korea’s embattled President Park Guen-Hye in a snowballing corruption case inched closer Monday when the main opposition party said it was examining its options. The move comes the day after prosecutors named Park a criminal suspect in a major influence-peddling case, tightening the noose on an already hugely unpopular leader. “We will immediately review the timing and methods of impeachment and set up a subcommittee to […]
PUKHRAYAN, India (AFP) — The death toll from India’s rail disaster rose to 142 on Monday after workers toiled through the night removing victims from the wreckage, with grim warnings that more bodies were trapped inside. There was little hope of finding survivors among the mangled remains of 14 carriages, which came off the tracks in northern India on Sunday in a rural district of Uttar Pradesh state. “The actual toll will still be higher […]
MARRAKECH, Morocco (20 November, 2016) –- In response to the close of COP22, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, leader of WWF International’s Climate & Energy Practice, issued the following statement: “The UN climate talks continue to be filled with twists and turns, but they have delivered what they needed to this week – putting substance behind the promise of the Paris Agreement so it can be fully implemented. The Marrakech work has not been the most glamorous, but it’s […]
KANPUR, India (Reuters) — Indian rescue workers picked their way through the last of the mangled carriages of a derailed train on Monday (November 21) to pull out more bodies from a disaster that killed at least 133 people and injured more than 200. Fourteen carriages of the train, en route from Patna to Indore, derailed in the early hours of Sunday (November 20) while most of the more than 500 passengers were asleep. […]
Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station, carrying a European, a Russian and an American astronaut for a six-month mission at the orbiting outpost. https://youtu.be/7fXZimysuto
