Tag: philippines

ASEAN Youth Volunteers in the Phl for volunteer work on disaster risk reduction

(Eagle News) — Today, August 26, is the closing ceremony of the fourth installation of the regional youth program in the Philippines of the ASEAN Youth Volunteer Programme (AYVP) 2016. The AYVP is implemented by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (The National University of Malaysia-UKM). The AYVP Philippines 2016, with the theme, ‘The Development of ASEAN Youth DRR-Leaders through Volunteerism and Community Engagement’ is organized in collaboration with the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University […]

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US to maintain strong ties with Philippines

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The strong relations between the Philippines and the United States of America will remain, according to State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner. This was despite the statements made by President Rodrigo Duterte against the US after the country expressed its misgivings on the state of human rights in the Philippines in connection with government’s war on illegal drugs. Toner also said that the US and the Philippines has good […]

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Duterte gov’t begins formal quest for peace with NDF

OSLO, Norway, Aug. 23 (PIA) — The Philippine government (GPH) on August 22, resumed its formal negotiations to seek peace with the National Democratic Front (NDF), seeking to forge a political settlement anchored on sweeping social, economic, and political reforms that were deemed crucial in ending Asia’s longest running insurgency. Two Cabinet officials of the President Rodrigo Duterte led the five-member government panel that met in Oslo with top leaders of the NDF, some of whom flew […]

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Philippines hopes for peace deal with rebels within a year

      by Pierre-Henry Deshayes OSLO, Norway (AFP) — The Philippine government said Monday it hoped to reach a peace deal with communist guerrillas within a year, as the two sides kicked off talks in Norway aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest insurgencies. “On the part of the (government) panel, we have imposed a timeline of nine to 12 months,” Silvestre Bello, the government delegation’s head of negotiations, told reporters. The government and the […]

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The Philippines and the Olympic Games

QUEZON City, Philippines (August 22) – The modern Olympic Games have been one of the most highly-supported sporting events in the world, with many countries sending their athletic delegates to compete since 1932. Every four years, athletes from all over the world show off the skills that they honed and perfected through training and hard work. The Olympic Games was modeled after the ancient Greek sporting event of the same name. The classical game was […]

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Philippines to UN: Duterte not committing crime

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippine government on Friday criticized as “baseless and reckless” a UN statement that President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs amounted to a crime under international law.  Duterte’s chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo told AFP the administration was not behind the extra-judicial killings targeting alleged criminal suspects, challenging UN human rights experts to visit the Philippines and investigate.   Two UN rights experts said Thursday that Duterte’s directives calling on law enforcers and […]

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UN officials say fight vs illegal drugs by Phl gov’t does not absolve it from killings

    MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The war of words between Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and the United Nations escalated Thursday, with a UN envoy warning that “state actors” could be held responsible over hundreds of killings in a controversial anti-drug crackdown. More than 1,500 people have died in Duterte’s fight against narcotics, police chief Director General Ronald de la Rosa told a Senate hearing, saying that 665 drug suspects were killed in “legitimate (police) operations” […]

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President Duterte says public officials with drug connections to be exposed

    (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would continue to expose officials with alleged links to illegal drug operations, as he warned those who are trying to interfere in this campaign, including public and government officials. As the word war between the President and senator Leila de Lima heated up, the President reminded the lady senator that she is in public office and should not be onion-skinned. Life of public officials, an […]

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Trump campaign chief Manafort: Dark knight of lobbyists

by Jennie MATTHEW NEW YORK , United States (AFP) — Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman thrust into the headlines this week in connection with a Ukrainian corruption investigation, is a formidable Republican strategist who spent years lobbying for rogues and dictators. The smooth-talking, sharply dressed 67-year-old has become the public face of the most controversial US presidential campaign in living memory: a professional spokesman who never strays off message as he bats aside allegations […]

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Philippine rebels optimistic ahead of Norway talks

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Maoist rebels waging a decades-old insurgency in the Philippines expressed high hopes for peace Monday before talks in Norway next week, with guerrilla leaders set to be freed within days. President Rodrigo Duterte, who won a landslide election victory in May, is seeking a political settlement to one of Asia’s longest insurgencies which has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1969. Five previous presidents had failed in that objective, and […]

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Philippines’ Duterte jacks up budget to fight crime

  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 […]

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NAIA expressway to open within the first 100 days of Duterte administration, says DPWH secretary

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 […]

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