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(Reuters) — Australian police have detained five men suspected of planning to sail a small boat from the far north of the country on to Indonesia and the Philippines and finally to Syria to join Islamic State, officials said on Wednesday (May 11). The men were held on Tuesday (May 10) after towing the seven-meter boat almost 3,000 km (1,865 miles) from Melbourne to Cairns in Queensland state, police said. “There have been reports that […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The US on Tuesday sailed a warship close to a disputed South China Sea reef Beijing has built up into an artificial island, officials said, prompting China to express “dissatisfaction and opposition”. Guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence navigated within 12 nautical miles of the Fiery Cross Reef, occupied by China and also claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines, the Pentagon said. “This operation challenged attempts by China, Taiwan, and […]
WASHINTON, United States (AFP) — The US Federal Bureau of Investigation suspects the computer hacking theft of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank was in part an inside job, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Quoting sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said FBI agents investigating the case “have found evidence pointing to at least one bank employee acting as an accomplice.” But it added that “a handful of others” may have also aided […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States said Tuesday it was keen to work with whoever wins the presidential election in the Philippines, after Rodrigo Duterte claimed victory. “We look forward to working with and congratulating the winner,” State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said, after the 71-year-old firebrand declared himself the winner of Monday’s voting. Trudeau stressed that official results had not yet been confirmed, but said the United States would work with whichever […]
(Reuters) A Taiwanese group has intervened in the Philippines’ international court case against China’s claims in the South China Sea, pressing Taipei’s position that Taiwan is entitled to a swathe of the disputed waterway as an economic zone. The unusual submission has emerged just as judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague are poised to rule on the Philippines’ landmark case, brought under the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of […]
Liberal Party standard bearer Mar Roxas on Tuesday conceded to Davao City Mayor Rodriigo Duterte in the Presidential Race. “Galangin at tanggapin natin ang pasya ng ating mga kababayan”, Roxas told his cheering supporters gathered at the Liberal headquarters in Quezon City. He wished his rival success in the presidency. “Digong, I wish you success. Ang iyong tagumpay ay tagumpay ng ating bansa.” In his concession speech, Roxas also thanked all those who helped his campaign. […]
DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) 5/10/2016 –Incendiary Philippine politician Rodrigo Duterte vowed a relentless crackdown on crime after claiming a landslide presidential victory built on foul-mouthed populist tirades that exposed deep voter anger at the establishment. The 71-year-old firebrand stormed to victory in Monday’s election, securing an insurmountable lead of nearly six million votes over his nearest rival, as a growing global howl for strong, populist leaders swept across the Southeast Asian nation. Duterte, the longtime mayor […]
(Eagle News) — The previously wide almost 1 million-vote lead of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., over Liberal Party vice-presidential bet Leni Robredo dwindled to just over 100,00 votes in just four hours as the latest unofficial and partial quick count based on election returns of the Commission on Elections came in. The quick count provided by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) showed Marcos with 12,593,119 votes compared with Robredo’s 12,476,529 votes as of 1:20 a.m. […]
Ferdinand ‘Bong-Bong’ Marcos , vice-presidential candidate and son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, cast his ballot in the presidential election at a polling station in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
The Philippines holds elections on Monday to choose a successor to President Benigno Aquino. Here are 10 crucial victories and setbacks that came to define his six years in office: August 23, 2010: Hong Kong hostage crisis – Barely two months in office, Aquino faces his first major crisis when a disgraced policeman takes a busload of Hong Kong tourists hostage. The gunman and eight hostages are killed in a hail of gunfire hours later […]
The Vote Counting Machines (VCM) in some precincts in New Era Elementary School suffered technical problems. In Precinct 3489A, casting of votes was stopped for over an hour because the VCM won’t accept the ballots. The Commission on Elections sent a technician to check the dysfunctional machine and was operational after 45 minutes of repair. Meanwhile, there were also reports of a technical glitch in the VCM in Precinct 3468B, Cluster 1648, in the same […]
