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QUEZON City, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the release of Php 4.7 billion payment for unpaid benefits of widows of World War II veterans as well as for retirees of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In his message during the commemoration of National Heroes Day in the Libingan ng mga Bayani, he said that Php 3.5 billion is for the payment of arrears of widows of WWII veterans while the remaiing Php 1.2 […]
MANILA, Aug. 8 (PIA) — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte issued early Sunday morning an ultimatum against communist rebels’ use of landmines and demanded inclusion of the battlefield issue in the peace talks or else the negotiations are off. “Either you stop it or we stop talking,” the President said in a news conference held at the wake of four Philippine Army infantry troops killed in two separate encounters in Compostela Valley on Friday against alleged […]
MANILA ,Philippines (AFP) — Philippine warplanes on Thursday attacked Islamic militants holding 20 foreign hostages on a remote southern island, but there was no sign of the captives, the military said. Government forces said they rained artillery fire on Abu Sayyaf gunmen on a mountainous area of Jolo island, as planes and helicopters flew low over the jungle terrain dropping bombs. President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday vowed to “neutralise” the militants, who have declared allegiance […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — According to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine Air Force will continue patrolling the West Philippine Sea. AFP Chief of Staff, Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, said patrol aims to take photographs of China’s massive reclamation activities. He added that said planes are unarmed, so that China will have no reason for alarm. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
