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(Eagle News) – President Duterte announced a holiday ceasefire for rebels, urging members of the New People’s Army (NPA), the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to join their families this holiday season. Addressing members of the military during the 81st anniversary celebration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Wednesday, December 21, the President said he himself will be guaranteeing […]
(Eagle News) — Lawmakers said it was ignorant and not prudent for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to label President Rodrigo Duterte as a murderer, including his call for the Philippine government to probe its own president. Senator Panfilo Lacson and Kabayan Rep. Harry Roque, in separate statements, criticized the UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein saying he does not seem to know the Philippine Constitution because of his conclusion. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines said Wednesday that President Rodrigo Duterte’s killing of three people in the 1980s was part of a police operation, after the United Nations rights chief urged Manila to investigate him for murder. In several speeches last week, Duterte recounted how in 1988, early in the first of his several terms as mayor of the southern city of Davao, he and local police ambushed and killed three suspected kidnappers. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — China has offered the Philippines guns and equipment worth $14 million to wage its war on drugs and combat terrorism, Manila’s defense minister said Tuesday, as ties improve under President Rodrigo Duterte. Beijing has publicly backed the controversial campaign, which has left 5,300 people dead in less than six months and drawn criticism from the United Nations and the United States, Manila’s ally. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the latest offer […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte gave financial assistance and moral support to soldiers wounded in recent military encounters with the Abu Sayyaf during his visit to Camp Navarro General Hospital in Zamboanga City on Saturday, December 17. A day after his return from his exhausting four day state visit in Cambodia and Singapore, the President wasted no time and personally checked the condition of the 16 soldiers who were wounded in action in […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Saturday (December 17) that the United States military troops should be “prepared to leave” as previous military deals with the US would soon be abrogated following the US threat to defer millions of dollars in foreign aid to the country. In a speech past midnight Saturday (December 17) shortly after arriving from his four-day state visits in Cambodia and Singapore, a visibly tired but angry […]
(Reuters) — Cheering Filipinos greeted Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte who had an orchid named after him at Singapore’s Botanic Gardens on Friday (December 16). The orchid was named Dendrobium Rodrigo Roa Duterte, as Singapore traditionally names orchids after visiting heads of state. The violet Duterte orchid is a “compact, robust and vigorous hybrid” according to Singapore’s National Parks Board. His supporters, most of them Filipinos, shook hands and took photos with Duterte […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Chinese and Philippine coast guards met for the first time on Friday and agreed to move forward on maritime cooperation, officials said, as relations between Beijing and Manila warm under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The two-day meeting in Manila on establishing a Joint Coast Guard Committee (JCGC) came just days after new images showed China had apparently installed defensive weapons on artificial islands in the hotly contested South China […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he would fire two ranking government official upon his return from his two-day state visit in Singapore. Speaking to the Filipino community in Singapore on Friday night (December 16) before his flight back to Philippines, the President assured the overseas Filipino workers there that he would stop corruption in government while he is the President of the land. “I will assure you, I will assure you, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Lawmakers criticized Senator Leila De lima for claiming that President Duterte can be impeached for his statement before business leaders recently that hinted he had personally killed a criminal while still the Davao City Mayor. According to House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, the President cannot be impeached by the alleged statement because there is no evidence backing it. https://youtu.be/7Ui_4-STyaU Alvarez even called De Lima ”stupid” for claiming that the President […]
The United States has not renewed a major aid package to the Philippines because of “significant concerns” about the rule of law under President Rodrigo Duterte, the US embassy said on Thursday. “This decision reflects the Board’s significant concerns around rule of law and civil liberties in the Philippines,” embassy spokeswoman Molly Koscina said in a statement emailed to AFP after the country was not selected for a new Millennium Challenge Corporation grant. The […]
(Eagle News) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was chosen as among the 74 “World’s Most Powerful People” in the influential Forbes’ annual ranking this year, along with world leaders Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President-elect Donald Trump, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Chinese President Xi Jinping who ranked first to fourth place respectively. Mr. Duterte ranked no. 70 in the Forbes’ ranking, and is one of the 11 new names on the list […]
