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(Eagle News)—–The Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth of members of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet were bared on Friday, May 25, with Public Works Secretary Mark Villar topping the list. Villar said he had a net worth of P1.4 billion, more than the P1.3 million declared by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi who was in second place. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez was in third place, with P338,123,873; followed by Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade with P303,233,620. […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will visit South Korea from June 3 to 5. A statement from South Korea’s Blue House said its president Moon Jae-In and Duterte will have a summit on June 4. This would have been President Duterte’s first visit to South Korea, which only last month held a very successful summit with North Korea. During the summit, the two Koreas agreed to, among others, put an end to the Korea War which […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte will sign into law a proposed national ID system. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who held a press conference on Friday, May 25. “This landmark bill is part of the legislative priority agenda of the Duterte administration to improve the delivery of government services; thus, once ratified, the President will sign this into law,” Roque said. The bicameral conference committee has approved a measure seeking for the same. […]
(Eagle News)–National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison said he “has a “reason to be optimistic” about the resumption of peace talks. He said this was “on the basis of the hard and productive work that the panels have already done in the form of back that the panels have already done in the form of back channel consultations, consensus building and bilateral drafting, unless the Duterte regime is once more […]
Adds some jobs not appropriate for them (Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, May 24, said he believes in the competence of women. Some jobs, however, he said, are not appropriate for them. “We grew up with a sort of mindset na sometimes prone to violence. Itong mga babae prim and proper man ‘yan. Isang tingin lang sa nanay niyan matunaw na yan tapos gawin mong pulis ipaaway mo dun sa [kriminal],” the President said. […]
By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service House leaders have asked President Rodrigo Duterte to certify as urgent a measure that seeks to provide for a Bangsamoro Basic Law and to abolish the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In asking Duterte to make the certification on House Bill 6475, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and House Majority leader Rodolfo Farinas said they aimed to pass the measure on third reading “before the sine die adjournment of Congress on […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is seeking an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the Marawi siege, and into the status of Marawi City’s rehabilitation. Trillanes filed Senate Resolution 743 and Senate Resolution 742 on Wednesday, May 23, exactly a year after members of Maute and the Abu Sayyaf attacked the capital of Lanao del Sur in an alleged bid to establish an Islamic State caliphate. In filing Senate Resolution 743, Trillanes said […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, May 23, said it respects the decision of the Bureau of Immigration affirming its earlier order for Australian nun Patricia Fox to leave the country. “That’s the law. Dura lex sed lex (the law may be harsh but it is the law),” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. In the May 17 order, the BI junked Fox’s appeal of the agency’s decision to forfeit her missionary visa for lack of […]
“Why honor” that day Marawi was attacked?, he asks (Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will not attend ceremonies to commemorate the first anniversary of the Marawi siege, his aide said on Wednesday, May 23. “Why honor (that day)?” Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said. According to Go, the President would much rather commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Marawi from terrorists in October. Earlier, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte might attend the […]
(Eagle News) — The Marawi City government is planning to pass an ordinance to ensure that the lessons from the Marawi siege will not be forgotten. “Iniisip naming maganda itong tiyempo every year, na maisapuso sa mga tao ang kahalagahan ng kapayapaan,” Task Force Bangon Marawi Field Office Manager Assistant Secretary Felix J. Castro, Jr.Assistant Secretary Felix Castro said in a press conference on Wednesday, May 23. His announcement came on the same day members […]
(Eagle News) — Jordan is giving the Philippines two Cobra helicopters. President Rodrigo Duterte made the announcement in a speech during the Philippine Navy’s 120th founding anniversary commemoration on Tuesday, May 22. In April, Duterte announced National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon had advised him to tone down his attacks against United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein because his cousin, Jordan’s King Abdullah, was willing to donate the helicopters. “We can never […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, May 22, heaped praises on Kuwait, saying the Gulf state “showed courage when it met the Philippines’ “challenge.” But according to Duterte, he would sign the order to lift totally the ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait if the conditions were “guaranteed.” Earlier, the labor department already announced the total lifting of the ban, following the signing of an agreement on the protection of […]
