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Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Naka-halfmast na ang watawat sa loob ng Kampo Aguinaldo at sa lahat ng kampo ng militar sa buong bansa bilang pagluluksa sa pagkamatay ng 15 sundalo sa nangyaring bakbakan sa Patikul,Sulu. Sa inisyal na report, bago nito, dalawang engkwentro ang naganap sa Barangay Kutong, Talipao, Sulu kung saan una nang nalagasan ang mga bandido. Ngunit pasado alas kwatro ng hapon, muling nakasagupa ng mga sundalo […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang warned on Tuesday there would be no winners in any armed conflict sparked by territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Quang, who is on a state visit to Singapore, told a forum that recent developments there were threatening regional security. The Vietnamese leader did not mention any country but there is growing unease over China’s actions. China claims most of the South China Sea. It […]
(Eagle News)– Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay said on Tuesday that the Philippines wants to assemble a provisional agreement with China on fishing rights before President Rodrigo Duterte’s trip to Beijing by the end of this year. Yasay told lawmakers on Tuesday that China should agree with the provisional agreement on fishing rights until the two disputing countries are able to come up with a solution. “We are even thinking about the possibility in the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (August 30) – Call it Phexit or what-have-you, our country is now facing the possibility of leaving the UN. Or so many thought, with newspapers even making this announcement of President Rodrigo Duterte as their banner story The President threatened the august international body of separation in response to the United Nations’ criticism regarding his administration. The President made the announcement in response to a statement from United Nations Special Rapporteurs Agnes Callamard […]
(Eagle News)– The White House announced on Monday that United States President Barack Obama plans to meet President Rodrigo Duterte on September 6. The talks are expected to center on human rights and security concerns. “We absolutely expect that the president will raise concerns about some of the recent statements from the president of the Philippines,” White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters when asked about Duterte’s controversial remarks on women, journalists […]
QUEZON City, Philippines — Based on the 2016 Happy Planet Index Report released by the New Economic Foundation, Philippines is now at the 20th place as one of the happiest places on Earth resulting in a 67.9 years expectancy for Filipinos. Costa Rica is in the first place while Mexico is in the second place
(Eagle News)– Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday hinted that President Duterte already picked someone to be the country’s ambassador to the USA. “Meron na. I will wait [for the announcement]. Akala ko kanina i-announce niya eh… Hindi ako. Tinanggihan ko na iyan,” Lorenzana told reporters in a chance interview. “Yeah, military din… Hindi siya [former Gen. Hermogenes Esperon]. He will remain as the National Security Adviser. I-announce naman iyan ni Presidente,” he explained. Lorenzana was […]
by Cecil Morella MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Pedicab driver Reyjin dives into a neighbour’s house for a quick meth fix, fearful of taking a bullet to the head in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs but unable to quit. More than 2,000 people have died violent deaths since Duterte took office two months ago and immediately implemented his scorched-earth plans to eradicate drugs in society, ordering police to shoot dead traffickers and […]
(Reuters) Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus, mostly among foreign construction workers, and said it expected more cases to be identified. All but seven of those infected had fully recovered, the Health Ministry and the National Environment Agency said in a statement on Sunday. The seven remain in hospital. On Saturday, authorities confirmed a 47-year-old Malaysian woman living in southeastern Singapore as the city-state’s first case of a local transmission […]
MARAWI, Philippines (AFP) — Muslim extremists who support the Islamic State group staged a daring jailbreak in the southern Philippines, freeing 23 detainees in the latest in a series of mass escapes, officials said Sunday. About 50 heavily armed members of the Maute group raided the local jail in the southern city of Marawi on Mindanao island on Saturday and freed eight comrades who were arrested barely a week ago, police said. Fifteen other detainees, […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine security officials killed six members of militant group Abu Sayyaf on Friday including one involved in the kidnapping of two Canadians who were beheaded in the troubled south, the military said. A military spokesman said soldiers clashed with 100 members of notorious kidnap-for-ransom gang Abu Sayyaf as troops carried out President Rodrigo Duterte’s orders to “destroy” the militants. In April and June, the group beheaded two Canadian tourists after […]
