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(Eagle News) — The Palace hit back at Vice President Leni Robredo and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, calling their remarks about the memorandum of agreement on oil development inked between the Philippines and China “premature, baseless and unfair.” According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, Robredo and Morales may not have read the MOU itself, noting that “they anchor their comments merely on media reports, and not on the actual document itself, which the Palace […]
(Eagle News)—-Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Monday, Nov. 26, said the document which Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said was the draft agreement on oil and gas exploration signed between the Philippines and China may have been written by Trillanes’ staff instead. In a television interview, Locsin said the draft agreement which was submitted to the Chinese side was the one he himself penned, after all. “How can I respond to non-sense? It’s not […]
(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison said the signing of the memorandum of agreement on oil and gas development between the Philippines and China was a “clear act of treason.” “…(It is a) blatant betrayal of the sovereign rights and national patrimony of the Philippines and the Filipino people,” he said. For one, he said the MOU “waste basket” the international arbitral ruling that nullified China’s excessive claims in the South […]
(Eagle News) — Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi on Friday, Nov. 23, gave the assurance that the rights of oil companies who were awarded service contracts will be protected. Cusi made the statement after the Philippines and China inked a memorandum of understanding that would allow for a joint oil and gas development cooperation between the two countries. “I understand that there is great interest in the MOU signed with China. I would ask for everyone’s […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping witnessed on Tuesday, Nov. 20, the signing of 29 memoranda of understanding (MOU) and other agreements covering trade, cultural and educational cooperation, infastructure development, and oil and gas exploration and development between the two countries, among others. The signing of the various agreements were done on the first day of Xi’s historic two-day state visit in the country. Xi is the first […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday has finalized the country’s demands for the protection of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kuwait. The President said he wanted the bilateral deal that Philippines and Kuwait will sign to be a “government-to-government“ contract. The Chief Executive also demanded that the agreement should include some mandatory provisions like allowing OFWs to sleep at least seven hours a day and that they should “be fed with nutritious food.” […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said it was now finalizing arrangements for the formal signing of an agreement with the Kuwaiti government on the protection of overseas Filipino workers deployed in the Gulf state. In a statement on Tuesday, March 20, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) may take place in the first week of April. The venue of the signing has […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine and Kuwaiti governments will be signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the protection of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) this month. “In two weeks, the panels agreed to have the signing most likely in Kuwait,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in an interview on Friday, March 16. Bello said that labor officials from both countries approved the final MOU draft on that same day after a two-day negotiation […]
