Tag: President Rodrigo Duterte

Panelo insists EDCA can still be subject for review

(Eagle News)– Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said on Wednesday (October 7) that the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) was valid according to the document Instrument of Ratification which contained the signature of former President Benigno Aquino III. “It is a valid agreement but what we are saying is that it is subject to review and evaluation,” Panelo told reporters. After finding Aquino’s signature,  Panelo said he immediately informed President Rodrigo Duterte about it. […]

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Duterte apologizes to Jews over ‘holocaust’, Hitler remark

  (Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday (October 4) evening visited the Beit Yaacov Synagogue, a Jewish community synagogue, in Makati City to personally apologize for his statements on the Holocaust last week, saying it was never his intention to disrespect the Jewish people. The Jewish community gathering in the Makati City synagogue was to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah or the 2016 Jewish New Year.  Rosh Hashanah is one of the most important holidays in […]

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Illegal drugs and human rights

QUEZON City, Philippines (October 4) – Several concerns were raised regarding the state of human rights in the Philippines. The United Nations sent its investigators to the Philippines to look into such issues like poverty, education, labor, human trafficking, homelessness and gender equality. The Philippine Drug War – officially named Campaign Plan Double Barrel – was questioned and probed. Then came the figures. According to the Philippine National Police, 1, 276 “drug personalities” were killed in police […]

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2016 PHL-US war games the last under my term- Duterte

(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed his pronouncement that this October’s Philippine-United States military exercises would be the last under his presidency. “In my term, yes. I don’t know if that treaty would take some form. But in my term, yes. I would not be using my entitlements as commander-in-chief. I would simply say that that is the foreign policy,” Duterte affirmed in a news conference. Duterte pointed out there was no cooperation between the […]

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Duterte willing to be a ‘Hitler’ on criminals

(Eagle News)– To “save the next generation,” President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday (September 30) said he wants the death of the country’s criminals, citing what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews during World War II. “Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now, there are three million drug addicts… I’d be happy to slaughter them,” Duterte said. “At least if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have… You know my victims, I would like to be, all […]

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Duterte orders release of Vietnamese poachers

(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday (September 30) gave directives to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to speed up the release of Vietnamese fishermen caught poaching in Philippine waters last year. According to Justice Undersecretary Erickson Balmes, the President wanted the release to be as soon as possible at government’s expense. The vessels used by Vietnamese will also be returned to Vietnam. No further details were given on Duterte’s sudden commands. Vietnamese fishermen were […]

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Vietnam to share drug intel data with Phl

(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday (September 30) revealed that Vietnam will share intelligence data with the Philippines on narcotics trade. “They will share intelligence data. I’ll be sending military and police, sort of an envoy for this specific purpose,” Duterte said. According to Duterte, combating illegal drugs was a common interest between Philippines and Vietnam. “They have agreed it should be a concern not only of the two nations, but the entire region,” […]

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Philippine businessmen to accompany Duterte to China: sources

  (REUTERS)  Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte will visit China from Oct. 19-21 accompanied by a business delegation, business and diplomatic sources said on Thursday, signaling his intent to set sovereignty squabbles aside and forge a stronger commercial relationship with Beijing. The decision to invite business leaders suggests Duterte is following through with his vow to make peace with China and heal wounds that have festered since Manila lodged a legal challenge to Beijing’s claims to […]

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Duterte pays tribute to ‘Iron Lady’ Miriam

(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday (September 29) expressed his mourning on the death of former Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. “Senator Santiago has left a sterling career in public office. She is best remembered as a graftbuster ‘eating death threats for breakfast,’ earning her the Iron Lady of Asia. A constitutionalist, she has always been an advocate for the rule of law” Duterte said in a statement in Vietnam. “We express our deepest sorrow […]

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Duterte declares upcoming Philippines-U.S. war games ‘the last one’

  (REUTERS)  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte plunged one of the United States’ most important Asian alliances deeper into uncertainty on Wednesday by declaring upcoming U.S.-Philippines military exercises “the last,” and ruling out any joint navy patrols. The firebrand Duterte pledged to honor a longstanding security treaty with the United States, but said China opposed joint marine drills in the Philippines starting next week and there would be no more war games with Washington after that. […]

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Duterte orders sequestration of shabu lab

ARAYAT, PAMPANGA, Sept. 29 — President Rodrigo Duterte inspected here on Tuesday, September 27 a clandestine drug laboratory that could have produced about 400 kilos of shabu in one day. President Duterte ordered the immediate sequestration and the confiscation of the property discovered by joint operatives of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Philippine National Police, and the local government unit. It is located in Barangay Lacquios in this municipality. The […]

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