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(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has condemned the spate of attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport which killed one on July 23, and on Tuesday injured nine others. “The Philippine government hopes for the speedy recovery of those injured and expresses its sympathy to the family of the single fatality during the attack,” a statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. “In view of the continuous rise in tensions within […]
(Eagle News) — Palace has allayed fears of other Filipino workers amid the decision of the Kuwaiti government to expel Philippine envoy Ambassador Renato Pedro Villa who was declared “persona non grata,” saying overseas Filipino Workers in Kuwait are still protected by the International Humanitarian Law. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Philippine government will still able to protect the distressed Filipino workers with the help of the International Humanitarian Law. The Kuwaiti government said […]
(Eagle News)—-The Philippine government is advising the around 1000 Filipinos in Syria to stay in their homes “until further advice.” Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato made the statement amid the ongoing Western missile strikes on supposed Syrian chemical facilities. “So far, the embassy has not received any reports of Filipino casualties in the attacks that appear to have targeted military installations in and around Damascus,” he said. He said the personnel of the Philippine Embassy in […]
(Eagle News) – An official of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said that it would require the Senate to actually agree to the withdrawal of the Philippines from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before the country can be considered that it is actually withdrawing from the international body. CHR commissioner Roberto Cadiz, the current CHR officer-in-charge, also said that it was “too late in the day” for the Philippine government to stop the […]
(Eagle News) — The government is targeting to bid out some P98.32 million-worth of state-owned assets in the first quarter of 2018, even as it reported that it had remitted more than half a billion pesos in the sale of state assets last year. This was according to the Privatization Management Office (PMO) of the Department of Finance (DOF) which reported that disposition of state properties for privatization along with cash dividends and other forms […]
(Eagle News)– The government on Thursday said the decision to refuse European Union aid from now on was done to assert the country’s independence. “(This) is to enable them (EU) not to interfere with our internal affairs,” Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said in a text message to reporters on Thursday. “We are supposed to be an independent nation,” he said. Media reports quoted European Union Ambassador to the Philippines Franz Jessen as saying that refusing […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government sees the illegal drug problem as a health concern, stressed the Department of Health, as government agencies released the “real numbers” on the illegal drug situation on Tuesday, May 2. During Tuesday’s #Real Numbers Forum in Pasig City, government officials released data that showed that there are more than 1.2 million drug users who have surrendered to government because of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on illegal drugs. Of this […]
(Eagle News) — The negotiating panels of both the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) agreed on Saturday (March 11) to resume peace talks in April and June this year, as both parties also agreed to “forge an interim bilateral ceasefire agreement” so that the talks could proceed. In a statement signed by the members of both parties’ negotiating panels in Utrecth, The Netherlands, the government and the NDF […]
QEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The third round of peace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front – which was held in Rome, Italy – formally ends. Both sides signed the supplemental guidelines which provided for the monitoring of human rights violations. This means that the comprehensive agreement on respect of human rights and international humanitarian law — the first of the four substantive agenda of the peace talks — will […]
Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Tuesday said that the Philippine government respects the decision of a Kuwaiti Court to sentence a Filipina who was linked to Islamic State Jihadist Group (ISIS). According to media reports, a Kuwaiti Court sentenced a Filipina to ten (10) years imprisonment after she was found guilty of joining the ISIS and plotting attacks in Kuwait. “In the case of the Filipina in Kuwait, what our embassy can […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The United States of America will talk with the Philippine government after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to cancel the Visiting Forces Agreement when the US postponed $433 million worth of humanitarian assistance to the Philippines due to the human rights situation in the country.
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The United States said the Philippine government had not officially communicated President Rodrigo Duterte’s demand to pull US military advisers out of the rebellion-torn southern Philippines. Since 2002, up to 600 US advisers have been deployed in the Mindanao region to train troops battling Muslim extremists but their numbers have been scaled down in recent years. A week after calling US President Barack Obama a “son of a whore”, the incendiary leader […]
