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CALOOCAN CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Matagumpay na naisagawa ang Lingap sa Mamamayan ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Caloocan City Jail. Ang nasabing aktibidad ay pinangunahan ni Bro. Elmore Dennis Managuit, ministro ng INC at ng mga kaanib na mula sa lokal ng Caloocan. Tumulong din sa kanila ang mga miyembro ng SCAN International. Masayang masaya ang mga napagkalooban ng tulong. Lubos ang kanilang pagpapasalamat sa ganitong mga socio civic activity ng INC sa kanilang […]
(Eagle News)– Both chambers of Congress, the Senate and House of Representatives, have agreed to move the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections to 2017. The new date agreed for the polls is October 23, 2017. Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Fariñas said in a caucus at the House of Representatives that they will file a bill postponing the elections to next year. The Senate will file their own bill as well.
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — In an exclusive interview with Agila Balita Alas Dose, retired General Ricardo de Leon, President of the Philippine Public Safety College discussed the training of police personnel as well as the full support of the PPSC on the Duterte administration’s fight against illegal drugs.
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police (PNP) will bring their Oplan Tokhang to call centers and condominium buildings in its effort to eradicate the illegal drug menace. The PNP Eastern Police District said it would already conduct an information drive in the call centers and condominium buildings under their jurisdiction. According to EPD Deputy Chief for Operations, Senior Superintendent Edwin de Ocampo, they received information from arrested drug pushers that most […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte blamed the Aquino administration for the alarming illegal drug situation of the country, departing from his previous pronouncement during his State of the Nation Address that he would not dwell on the mistakes of the past administration. But on Tuesday, President Duterte said that he was only able to find out how widespread the illegal drug problem is after taking the presidency. He added that the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Police Regional Office released the results of the autopsy examination of the Odicta couple. According to the police regional office’s medico-legal officer, Dr. Qwen Lebaquin, suspected Iloilo drug lord Melvin Odicta received four gunshot wounds during the fatal ambush on the couple at the Caticlan Jetty Port. The doctor said that a bullet also hit Meriam Odicta’s spine, instantly killing her.
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Interior and Local Government Secretary Mike Sueno said that slain couple Melvin and Meriam Odicta held a list of those involved in the illegal drug trade in Iloilo. Sueno said that since the list included private persons who were not under his jurisdiction, he advised the Odicta couple to bring the information to the Philippine National Police – Crime Investigation and Detection Group. Sueno hinted that the fatal ambush […]
(Eagle News)– Aklan police are still looking for witnesses in Monday’s shooting of alleged drug lord Melvin Odicta and wife Meriam. According to Region 6 Police Director Chief Supt. Jose Gentiles, the Special Investigation Task Group is pursuing the witnesses of the crime. The gunman used a cal .45 pistol based on evidences retrieved at the crime scene. A ballistics test would be conducted to the suspects’ firearms to determine if one of them did the […]
(Eagle News)– An updated data provided by the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday showed that there are fewer drug users/pushers who surrendered under Oplan Tokhang than earlier reports. From 673, 978 (August 23) surrenderees, this number was reduced to 626,556 (August 30). 585,473 were drug users while 41,083 were pushers. According to PNP spokesperson Senior Superintendent Dionardo Carlos, the previous figure was higher due to errors in inputting the data by regional offices. “Yung validation […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang warned on Tuesday there would be no winners in any armed conflict sparked by territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Quang, who is on a state visit to Singapore, told a forum that recent developments there were threatening regional security. The Vietnamese leader did not mention any country but there is growing unease over China’s actions. China claims most of the South China Sea. It […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Nepal has imposed a 10-year mountaineering ban on an Indian couple who faked photographs purporting to show them at the top of Mount Everest, an official said Tuesday. Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, both police constables, said they reached the top of the world’s highest mountain on May 23. But fellow climbers cast doubt on their claim, saying their photos at the summit were doctored. Nepal’s tourism department initially certified their claim […]
YUNLIN COUNTY, Taiwan (Reuters) — At his home in Taiwan’s Yunlin County, miniature artist Lee Chien-chu peers through a magnifying glass to take a closer look at one of his latest works of art – the alphabet carved from the lead of a mechanical pencil. Lee creates miniature sculptures out of various types of pencil lead, all smaller than 0.5 centimeters in diameter. The piece of art he is holding up, however, is even smaller […]
