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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday underscored the need for the implementation of a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, noting that such could “provide size and scale to unleash new growth potentials and write the rules of the game of the international trade order.” In his speech at the start of the RCEP Summit, Duterte, who is this year’s ASEAN chair, said that “when it enters into force,” the RCEP would be “one of […]
Donald Trump hailed a “tremendously successful” five-nation tour of Asia in which he made a lot of friends. The US president, who began his journey in Japan 12 days ago, said his trip had seen progress in his goal of narrowing America’s yawning trade deficits. “I’ve made a lot of friends at the highest levels,” Trump told reporters shortly before boarding Air Force One in Manila, adding the trip was “tremendously successful.” “I think […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Tuesday filed a case against former Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan secretary general Renato Reyes, and another over a rally that saw at least 16, including six policemen, hurt. In the complaint filed before the Manila Prosecutor’s Office, the police said Casiño, Reyes and Neil Legaspi violated the Public Assembly Act of 1985 when they committed breach of peace, assault, and disobedience and resistance to […]
President Rodrigo Duterte has pledged two accused Russian drug traffickers would get a “fair trial.” Duterte made the commitment at a meeting late Monday with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev on the sidelines of a regional summit in Manila. “I would just like to say that we have a working functional justice system here and they will get a fair trial and that they will be detained in a comfortable house,” Duterte told Medvedev, according […]
(Eagle News) — Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said he gave President Rodrigo Duterte his “assurance” Canada would “continue to work” on the issue of garbage originating from his country and that was still languishing in the Philippines. But Trudeau did not specifically say the trash brought to the Asian country by 103 container vans from 2013 to 2014 would indeed be returned to Canada. “Canada is very much engaged in finding a […]
(Eagle News) — Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he brought up “human rights, rule of law and specifically extrajudicial killings” during a conversation with President Rodrigo Duterte on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit. Speaking in a press conference on Tuesday, Trudeau said he told Duterte he was “concerned with human rights,” and he “impressed upon” him the “need for upholding rule of law.” This was despite the repeated denials […]
(Eagle News) — Canada on Tuesday reiterated calls for North Korea to cease developing its nuclear program, with its leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, issuing a strong statement the Asian country should “immediately cease all activities” that could endanger security in the region. “As tensions in North Korea arise, Canada stands united with the Asian continent and the world in our demand that North Korea (do this),” Trudeau said in his speech at the start of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte was unable to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations Summit on Monday night because of the series of scheduled bilateral meetings with other countries he had to attend. In a text message to reporters, Foreign Affairs acting spokesperson Robespierre Bolivar said that Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano attended the summit in Duterte’s place. Bolivar said the President had several bilateral meetings with India, Japan, South Korea and […]
(Eagle News) — Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed willingness to “expand (Russian) ties” with the Philippines, noting that a “new chapter” in the relationship between two countries has already been opened. In bilateral talks held on Monday night, Medvedev said that such ties could expand to include the areas of culture, politics, trade, business, among others. Duterte said in the aspect of trade, the Philippine government has plans of organizing a trade event that […]
(Eagle News) — Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China have agreed to start talks on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea based on the Framework approved by the foreign ministers in August. Foreign Affairs spokesperson Robespierre Bolivar said this was announced by both sides in their statements delivered during the ASEAN-China Summit on Monday. The summit held at the Philippine International Convention Center was attended by Chinese Premier Li […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte brought up the issue of militarization in the West Philippine Sea during bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Vietnam, with both countries later agreeing war was not an option. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who spoke in a press conference on the first day of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit on Monday. “There was a frank and very candid discussion on […]
(Eagle News) — Rapport between President Rodrigo Duterte and United States President Donald Trump was “very good” with the relationship between the two countries appearing “very warm, very friendly” and “very candid” at the same time during bilateral talks on Monday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. According to Roque, such was the “friendly” relationship between Duterte and Trump the US President at one point asked his Philippine counterpart to sing prior to the talks. “It […]
