Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
(Eagle News) – The Philippine National Police and other government agencies are now helping the Department of Health in the contact tracing of persons who may have interacted with the Chinese couple who had been confirmed positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus. Health Undersecretary Eric Domingo said that the DOH’s Epidemiology Bureau is now meeting with the PNP, and other concerned government agencies to help speed up contact tracing. He said that airline companies involved […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health in Central Visayas said that the second test on the five-year old Chinese boy who first tested positive for the coronavirus showed he is now negative of the disease. But despite the negative result of the second swab test done earlier on the boy, it is still important to wait for the confirmatory test result that the country had sent to Australia, said the DOH. The second swab […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that Chinese nationals are not barred from fishing at Recto Bank which is under the Philippine exclusive economic zone (EEZ) at the South China Sea. Panelo said that it is not really a grant of fishing rights, but China’s activities are “tolerated.” “Parang ito-tolerate mo lang. It’s not necessarily grant,” he explained after President Rodrigo Duterte said that China could not be prevented from fishing in the […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Chinese artist Badiucao, whose anonymous political satire infuriated Beijing and earned him comparisons to Banksy, on Thursday announced a protest campaign against Twitter over what he says is its pandering to China. This is the second time the social media giant has come under fire in the last week over its handling of China-related content after it apologized for mistakenly suspending accounts critical of Beijing — just days ahead of […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, Feb. 24, said he did not favor the deportation of Chinese workers in the country. “Yung mga Chinese dito, hayaan mo ‘yan na dito magtrabaho. Hayaan mo,” he said in a speech during a PDP-Laban event in Laguna. According to Duterte, this was because there were “300,000 Filipinos in China.” “Eh kung umalis ‘yung [300,000] of them?” he asked. Some senators want a crackdown on Chinese illegal workers, with […]
(Eagle News)—The Bureau of Immigration has detained the Chinese national who splashed a cup of taho on a police officer who was merely explaining to her the Metro Rail Transit ban on liquids over the weekend. BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval said Zhang Jiale, who had just posted bail for the direct assault charged filed in court against her, was taken into custody by immigration agents on Tuesday, Feb. 12, by virtue of a mission order […]
Dismisses charges for unjust vexation, disobedience filed vs her (Eagle News)—The Mandaluyong Prosecutors Office has found probable cause to indict the woman behind the taho-throwing incident at a Metro Rail Transit 3 station over the weekend for direct assault. In ordering the indictment of Jiale Zhang, senior assistant prosecutor Leynard Dumlao said that in the crime of direct assault, “the assault and force employed must be serious in character as to indicate respondent’s determination to […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate has moved to block payment for the Chinese-offered “Safe Philippines Project” in its version of the 2019 national budget. In a statement, Senator Ralph Recto said the Senate has included two provisions which have this effect on the CCTV-based emergency response system that was supposed to pilot in Metro Manila and Davao City. The first provision, under the Unprogrammed Fund section of the national budget, specifies that no amount appropriated “shall be […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration has arrested 21 Chinese nationals it said were illegally trading in two shopping malls in Pasay. In a statement, BI acting intelligence unit chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. said of the 21, 12 were arrested at One Shopping Center while the rest were nabbed from Two Shopping Center. BI commissioner Jaime Morente said the foreigners were “working in the country without the necessary permits.” “These illegal aliens are brazenly working out in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Dec. 20, gave the assurance the four Chinese nationals who were recently convicted for operating a floating shabu laboratory in Subic will not be given special treatment. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, however, also assured the families of Win Fai Lo, Kam Wah Kwok, Shu Fook Leung and Kwok Tung Chan they “will be given proper treatment in prison, and they will be humanely treated in accordance with […]
There are Filipino illegal workers in China, too, Duterte says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Nov. 27, urged a careful approach to the issue of Chinese illegal workers in the country. Speaking to reporters in Bohol, Duterte noted that while the illegal workers should be deported, there were also “so many thousands of Filipinos working there or went inside China as tourists and working there.” He noted that the same was true […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Joel Villanueva has slammed what he said was the inaction of government agencies that enabled the influx of illegal foreign workers in the country. Villanueva noted that Filipinos were “losing opportunities” as the illegal foreign workers, many of them Chinese, “steal their jobs.” The senator noted that based on data provided by the Department of Labor and Employment, 115,652 Alien Employment Permits were issued by the agency to foreign nationals from 2015 […]
