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Eagle News — President Rodrigo Duterte is open to holding bilateral talks with China after the historic decision by an arbitral tribunal in The Hague that the disputed West Philippine Sea (WPS) belongs to the Philippines. Budget secretary Benjamin Diokno said the issue was discussed during a cabinet meeting in Malacanang on Tuesday night after the Netherlands-based tribunal released its decision on the West Philippine Sea. He noted that enforcing the decision will be the […]
MANILa, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will skip the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Mongolia to be held from July 15 to 16. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar said, “the president wishes to stay close to his countrymen in the first few months of his presidency.” President Duterte is just on his second week in office. The ASEM is an exclusively Asian–European forum addressing political, economic and cultural issues with […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The economic team of President Rodrigo Duterte is receptive to the offer of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) of greater financial assistance to the Philippines to push the 10-point socio-economic agenda of the new administration. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III believes that ADB’s support will go a long way in helping pres. Duterte deliver on his electoral mandate to bring progress to all Filipinos. Dominguez issued the statement after last […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte welcomed Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jinhua in Malacañang on Thursday, July 7. President Duterte earlier said he was willing to have bilateral talks with China even if the Philippines wins in the arbitration case it filed before the UN arbitral tribunal regarding the disputed Scarborough shoal in the West Philippine Sea. He said ownership by the Philippines on some islands in the West Philippine […]
The top police officials named by President Rodrigo Duterte as having links with drug trade denied the allegation. Former National Capital Region Police Office or NCRPO chief Joel Pagdilao said he has been fighting drugs in the past years of his police service and vowed to clear his name. Both former Western Visayas Police Director General Bernardo Diaz and General Marcelo Garbo, Jr. , said wrong information reached Duterte. Garbo also said he cannot blame […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Inatasan ni President Rodrigo Duterte si Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade na ipag-utos sa Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) na tanggalin na ang protocol para sa no-fly zone tuwing bumibiyahe ang eroplanong sinasakyan ng pangulo ng Pilipinas. Sa kaniyang unang cabinet meeting, binigyang diin ni Duterte na ayaw niya ng special treatment. Dapat aniyang ituring ang kaniyang sarili at mga miyembro ng gabinete na karaniwang mamamayan kapag sumasakay ng […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo R. Duterte vowed Thursday to adhere to the rule of law as he tackles the country’s major scourges such as crime, corruption, and proliferation of illegal drugs. In his inaugural address, he said these major problems must be addressed with urgency as he described them as “mere symptoms of a virulent social disease that creeps and cuts into the moral fiber of Philippine society.” He said that corruption, both in […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo R. Duterte will lead today’s assumption of command of the Philippine National Police (PNP) at its National Headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City. Duterte will be welcomed by Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Ismael Sueno and incoming PNP chief, Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa. The event will include the donning of rank on Dela Rosa conferring on him the four-star rank, which is required of a full-fledged head […]
MANILA, Philippines — Some senators are warning that the emergency powers requested by incoming President Rodrigo Duterte to resolve the traffic in Metro Manila may be abused. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said he just wanted people to be knowledgeable on the strategy and what the Duterte administration wanted to do with it. Meanwhile, some senators are in favor of giving Duterte emergency powers. Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito said the proposal to grant emergency powers is worth […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The 17th Congress of the Philippines under incoming President Rodrigo Duterte is free to push the Php 2000 increase in the Social Security Systems pension for retired government workers. This was according to Presidential Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma. He said it is the prerogative of lawmakers to push the increase for government pensioners if the present Congress fails to override the veto made by President Benigno Aquino III regarding the proposed […]
The Palace has defended the implementation of Executive Order (EO) No. 203, saying it is a product of an extensive study by the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) in the past few years. “The government remains steadfast in its commitment to improve the salaries and benefits of all government workers, including those in the Government-Owned or –Controlled Corporation (GOCC) Sector, pursuant to the objective of formulating a ‘competitive compensation and remuneration system which shall attract […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – In order to lessen one of what he sees as the causes of hatred in the Philippines, presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte said that he is in favor of the internment of the remains of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Duterte added that he will allow the internment of Marcos not because he thinks that he is a hero but because Marcos was a soldier. (Eagle […]
