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SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore prosecutors are seeking a review of a court ruling which sparked a public outcry by reducing the jail term of a showbiz pastor who misused millions in church funds to promote his wife’s music career. The case, which involved raunchy music videos featuring celebrities like rapper Wyclef Jean alongside the wife of City Harvest Church’s leader Kong Hee, originally saw the senior pastor given an eight-year jail term. But the High […]
Ni Erwin Temperante Eagle News Service Naniniwala si Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II na mayroong nagpopondo kay Arthur Lascanas, ang retiradong pulis na bumaliktad sa kanyang unang pahayag na walang kinalaman si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa diumanong Davao Death Squad. Ginawa ng kalihim ang pahayag ilang araw matapos umalis si Lascanas patungong Singapore. Ayon sa Bureau of Immigration, planong bumalik ng retiradong pulis sa Pilipinas sa ika-22 ng Abril. Ayon kay Aguirre, dahil sa pag-amin ni Lascanas na mayroon siyang pinatay […]
Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Antonio A. Morales attended the Evangelical Mission organized by the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) at the Concorde Hotel, Singapore, on Sunday, 26 March 2017. Ambassador Morales was joined by First Secretary and Consul Mersole J. Mellejor and Acting Labor Attaché Ramon Lamberto Pastrana. The event, attended by INC members from various local congregations across Singapore and invited guests, featured a video presentation on INC’s presence in the Philippines […]
by Toh Ting Wei Agence France-Presse SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) – A Singapore couple who starved their Philippine maid until she weighed just 29 kilograms (64 pounds) were ordered jailed Monday in a case described as “shocking” by prosecutors who vowed to seek stiffer sentences. Trader Lim Choon Hong, 48, was sentenced to three weeks in jail and fined Sg$10,000 ($7,200), while his wife Chong Sui Foon, also 48, was jailed for three months, the couple’s […]
Timbog ang dalawang lalaki matapos na magtangka ang mga ito na lumangoy sa dagat patungong Singapore, Biyernes ng umaga, Marso 10. Ayon sa Coast Guard, ang dalawang lalaki na ito na nasa edad na 30 at 33 anyos ay nakitang lumalangoy sa dagat ng Woodlands Waterfront patungo sa nasabing bansa sa ganap na ala una dyes ng madaling araw (1:10 AM). Agad namang inaresto ang dalawang suspek. Samantala, kung napatunayan na nagkasala ang dalawa, sila ay […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo from the district of Singapore held a Worldwide Evangelical Mission to let people know more about their church and their teachings.
MANILA, Jan. 6 – The government of Singapore has expressed interest in further increasing its investments in the Philippines, as well as adding more flights to Manila in anticipation of increased demand in air travel between the two countries. In a recent meeting with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, Singaporean Ambassador to Manila Kok Li Peng said Singapore’s private sector would like to explore new growth opportunities in the Philippines, particularly in the retail, transportation, […]
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte wooed a group of business leaders in Singapore by discussing the many developments and reforms in the Philippines especially in the key growth sectors: energy and infrastructure. “The Philippines is open for business and we welcome what you have to offer,” the President told them at the Jurong Ballroom of the Shangri-la Hotel in Singapore on Friday, Dec. 17. This would mean more investments and encouraging competition, putting an end […]
(Reuters) — Cheering Filipinos greeted Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte who had an orchid named after him at Singapore’s Botanic Gardens on Friday (December 16). The orchid was named Dendrobium Rodrigo Roa Duterte, as Singapore traditionally names orchids after visiting heads of state. The violet Duterte orchid is a “compact, robust and vigorous hybrid” according to Singapore’s National Parks Board. His supporters, most of them Filipinos, shook hands and took photos with Duterte […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he would fire two ranking government official upon his return from his two-day state visit in Singapore. Speaking to the Filipino community in Singapore on Friday night (December 16) before his flight back to Philippines, the President assured the overseas Filipino workers there that he would stop corruption in government while he is the President of the land. “I will assure you, I will assure you, […]
MANILA, Dec. 14 – President Rodrigo Duterte left Tuesday for a back-to-back state visits to Cambodia and Singapore aimed at strengthening relations with the Asian neighbors particularly on trade and security. “These State Visits will reaffirm our relations with our close neighbors in Southeast Asia and seek to further strengthen our engagement with our brothers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEANs,” the President said in his departure speech at the Ninoy Aquino International […]
MANILA, Dec. 12 – President Rodrigo Duterte is set to undertake state visits to Cambodia and Singapore next week. This was confirmed by Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Charles Jose in a predeparture briefing in Malacañang. “President Rodrigo Duterte will undertake a state visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia on December 13 and 14, 2016 upon the invitation of His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni, and to Singapore on December 15 and 16, 2016 upon the invitation of His Excellency […]
