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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has announced a sharp increase in next year’s national budget to fund his controversial war on crime, with security forces to get big pay rises. The political outsider swept to a landslide election victory in May and immediately implemented an anti-drug crackdown that has seen police and vigilantes kill more than 1,000 people, according to media tallies. In announcing a 3.35-trillion-peso ($72.3 billion) 2017 budget, up […]
MANILA, Aug. 16 – Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar is confident that the traffic situation at the domestic and international airport complex in Pasay City will change with the opening of phase 2 of the NAIA Expressway Project, which connects Macapagal Boulevard to NAIA Terminals 1 and 2. “We are in the process of doing safety checks. With the help of DOTC, we are confident that the public would soon be able […]
CHINA has welcomed former Philippine President Fidel Ramos as a special envoy of the Philippine President for talks in Beijing, said Rafael Alunan III, former interior and local government secretary of the Philippines on Friday. Alunan made the statement at a press conference after accompanying Ramos in having dinner with senior Chinese official Fu Ying in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Ramos also attended the press conference. Commenting on the meeting between Fidel Ramos and Fu […]
DAVAO City, Philipines (Eagle News) – Nagbigay ng karagdagang P2 milyon si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte kay Olympic Silver Medalist Hidilyn Diaz sa kanyang pagkapanalo sa 2016 Rio Olympics. Ito ay naganap sa loob ng Malacanang of the South, DPWH Depot, Panacan, Davao City nitong Huwebes ng gabi, August 11, 2016. Dumating si Diaz Huwebes ng gabi at agad nakipagkita kay Pangulong Duterte dito sa Davao. Inaasahan naman ni Diaz na makakauwi na sa kanyang bayan ngayong […]
Inihayag ng dalawang mambabatas na dapat magkasundo na sina Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte at Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno. Ito ay para hindi maapektuhan ang illegal drugs campaign ng pamahalaan. Si Madelyn Villar sa detalye:
(Eagle News) – Supreme Court Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno wrote President Duterte questioning the alleged involvement of seven judges he had named as having links to the illegal drug operations, saying that “the Court would consider it important to know the source and basis of any allegation” against the judges. In a four-page letter, Sereno said that the high court was already investigating a judge, but that this particular judge was not in the […]
(Eagle News) — Albuera Leyte town Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., suspected of involvement in the illegal drug trade, has surrendered to Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa, beating the 24-hour deadline issued to him by the President. He also confirmed that his son, Kerwin, who remains at large, is a drug lord. Mayor Espinosa surrendered after President Duterte issued a “shoot on sight” order if he and his son would resist arrest. On Monday (Aug […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Hindi natatakot si Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte na ma-impeach dahil lamang sa ipinatupad na all-out-war kontra iligal na droga. Ayon sa pangulo, handa niyang itaya ang kanyang posisyon, dangal at buhay kung ang kukwestiyunin ay ang pinaigting nitong kampanya laban sa illegal drug trade sa bansa. Binigyang-diin ng pangulo na wala siyang ilusyon dahil sa una pa lang ay ayaw niyang tumakbo sa pagka-pangulo, subalit nagsalita na ang taumbayan kaya […]
(Eagle News) – With a speech that lasted for more than an hour and 30 minutes, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivered his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) where he promised to bring an “enduring peace” to the country before his term ends and to help the poor and underprivileged in society. Duterte on Monday, July 25, also outlined what he would do in the next six years, including fighting crime, reducing poverty, establishing […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, the 16th President of the Philippines, is set to deliver his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) today, July 25. The address of President Duterte will be the 78th since 1935 and the 30th since the restoration of democratic rule under the Fifth Republic in 1987. President Duterte’s first SONA will be simple and without fanfare according to the Presidential Communications Office. The President has requested […]
