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(Eagle News) – Typhoon Yutu which has recently brought destruction to Marianas Islands has now entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and was named “Rosita,” the country’s weather bureau, PAGASA said. As of 10 a.m. Saturday, October 27, “Rosita” was located at 1,345 km East of Aparri, Cagayan (17.6 °N, 134.3 °E ), moving west at 20 kilometers per hour. It has maximum sustained winds of 200 kph near the center and gustiness […]
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse BORACAY, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines opened the doors Friday to a spruced up and newly regulated Boracay, its famous holiday island that was shuttered to mend decades of harm caused by unchecked tourism. The white sand idyll was closed to visitors in April after President Rodrigo Duterte called it a “cesspool” tainted by raw sewage flowing from hotels and restaurants straight into the sea. But the re-christened resort […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte again urged businessmen and other Filipino citizens to report to him any government official who is engaged in questionable transactions, especially graft and corruption, saying he is “ready to give you an audience anytime.” Speaking at the concluding ceremonies of the 44th Philippine Business Conference and Expo (PBC&E) at the Manila Hotel on Thusday, Octo. 18, the President again vowed he would strike hard against those engaged in […]
(Eagle News) — The country’s inflation for the third quarter was recorded at an average of 6.2 percent which is higher than the previous quarter’s average of 4.8 percent, according to data released Friday, Oct. 19, by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. BSP Officer-in-Charge Maria Almasara Tuaño-Amador said in a press briefing in Manila that this has brought the inflation for this year to date at 5 percent. Dennis Bautista, officer-in-charge of BSP’s Economic […]
(Eagle News) — Commission on Higher commissioner Prospero “Popoy” E. de Vera III has been appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as the new CHED chairman. De Vera will serve as CHED chairman until July 2022, according to Commission’s OIC-Executive Director Cinderella Filipina S. Benitez-Jaro in a press release posted on the Facebook page of De Vera. For his part, De Vera thanked the President for the appointment, saying he was “humbled” and “challenged” by the […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde welcomed the election of the Philippines into the United Nations human Rights Council (UNHRC), even as he called on critics to help the government address human rights violations. “First of all, the Philippine National Police shares with the entire Filipino nation the honor of being elected anew to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to serve another three-year term until 2020. The Philippines’ election to the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the nation’s security forces to be non-partisan during the election season as he asked them to make a “commitment to the Filipino people” to stay “neutral. “Let us make a deal here, promise, we make a commitment to the Filipino people. This election, strictly neutral tayong lahat,” he said in a speech on Monday, Oct. 15, during the Philippine Army’s change of command rites. Duterte also asked […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, October 12, along with Cameroon and Bahrain, drawing criticism and rebuke from various rights groups in Europe and North America, and even from former US Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley. The Philippines was represented by incoming foreign affairs secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., who is currently the country’s permanent representative to the UN. The Department of Foreign Affairs announced […]
(Eagle News)–Over 3 million families experienced involuntary hunger in the past three months, a Social Weather Stations survey said. The Third Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey, conducted from September 15-23, 2018, said the estimated 3.1 million families translate to a 13.3% quarterly hunger rate. The SWS said this was 3.9 points above the 9.4% quarterly hunger in June 2018. Hunger in Metro Manila, the SWS said, was at 17.3% (est. 549,000 families), in Balance Luzon […]
(Eagle News) – Controversial lawyer Larry Gadon filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) with the Commission on Elections on Friday, October 12, where he announced his senate run for the May 2019 elections. Gadon became controversial after filing the impeachment complaint before Congress in August 2017 against then Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Sereno was eventually ousted as the head of the tribunal by her colleagues in a quo warranto petition filed […]
(Eagle News) — Bumagsak ng tatlong puntos ang ranking ng Pilipinas sa Global Passport Index mula sa pang-72 noong nakaraang taon patungo sa pang-75 ngayong taon. Batay sa Henley Passport Index, ang Japan ang maituturing na mayroong “most powerful passport” kung saan pinapayagan ang kanilang mga mamamayan na bumiyahe sa 190 mga bansa at teritoryo nang visa-free o visa-on-arrival access. Sumusunod sa Japan ang Singapore, Germany, France, South Korea, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Wednesday, October 10 sent off to Indonesia much needed supplies and humanitarian assistance for the victims affected by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on September 28. The aid supplies were loaded onto a Lockheed C-130 “Hercules” cargo ship. Relief goods and other assistance, including six water filtration units, six generators, 100 tents, 4,400 assorted sleeping kits, were among the supplied loaded to the […]
