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QUEZON City, Philippines – Sixty-seven policemen that are allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade will be transferred to Mindanao. According to NCRPO Chief Supt. Oscar Albayalde, the unnamed policemen are still continuing with their illegal activities despite the government’s anti-drug activities.
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets rallied Monday with financials up on easing fears about the future of German giant Deutsche Bank after a source said it was nearing a deal to slash a multi-billion-dollar US fine. Traders fled for cover last week, sending stocks reeling Friday, after US officials slapped the lender with a $14 billion charge over its role in the subprime mortgage crisis. The gigantic figure fuelled fears the bank […]
(Reuters) — Toyota Motors will begin selling the KIROBO mini robot in Japan next year, potentially appealing to an ageing, shrinking population where human interactions for some have decreased. Although project manager and engineer Fuminori Kataoka says KIROBO mini isn’t targeting a specific demographic, its sale comes at a time when official data showed that Japan has 34.6 million people aged 65 and older, or 27.3 percent of the population – the highest proportion […]
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand is considering testing all pregnant women for Zika, the health ministry said on Monday, following confirmation last week of its first known cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size, linked to the Zika virus. The two confirmed cases of microcephaly were the first in Southeast Asia linked to Zika, which has been spreading in the region after outbreaks in […]
(Eagle News) – Two police officials, who had been earlier named by witness Edgar Matobato as being involved in the alleged Davao Death Squad, denied all his allegations claiming that Matobato was a “liar” pointing to specific inconsistencies in the latter’s statements. In the continuation of the Senate hearing on extrajudicial killings, the former head of the Davao Ctiy police’s heinous crime division, retired Supt. Dionisio Abude, and SPO3 Arthur Lascanas who was assigned […]
IDLIB, Syria (AFP) — The frail cries of four-month-old Wahida made the rescue worker who carried her out of the rubble in Syria’s Idlib break down in sobs. The full story is one of tragedy. “I was in the shop when the airplane began carrying out air strikes,” recalls 32-year-old father Yehya Maatouq almost matter-of-factly. He was speaking to AFP on the destroyed rooftop of his home in the northwest city of Idlib, clearing away cement […]
(Reuters) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologized “profoundly and deeply” to the Jewish community on Sunday (October 2), and said his references to the Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were to hit back at critics who had likened him to Adolf Hitler. Duterte said he recognized the comments made in the early hours of Friday (September 30) had caused outrage among Jewish communities around the world, but he insisted his mention of […]
JOLO, Philippines (AFP)– Islamic militants in the Philippines have freed three Indonesian sailors abducted at sea, officials said, in the latest release by the Abu Sayyaf group after a kidnapping spree in the restive south. The Abu Sayyaf handed over the three men on Jolo island to a major rebel group which then released them to authorities on Sunday, government peace negotiator Jesus Dureza said. “The turnover was smooth and now the three will […]
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger the divorce process from the European Union by the end of March, firing the starting gun on the country’s biggest shift in policy since World War Two. May, appointed prime minister shortly after Britain voted in June to leave the bloc, has been under pressure from EU officials, investors and members of her Conservative Party to offer more on her plan for Britain’s exit, beyond […]
(Eagle News) — What Adolf Hitler did and what President Duterte wants to do to criminals are “two entirely different things,” according to Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella in defense of the President’s remarks making reference to the Holocaust in his war against illegal drugs. The remark that triggered outrage in the German and Jewish community prompted Malacanang to release a statement early Saturday, around 1:30 a.m., to clarify the latest controversial utterances of the […]
(Reuters) — The U.S. State Department on Friday (September 30) called “troubling” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s comments likening himself to Adolf Hitler and saying he would be happy to exterminate 3 million drug users. “America’s … partnership with the Philippines is … based on a mutual foundation of shared values and that includes our shared belief in human rights and human dignity,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. “President Duterte’s comments are a significant departure from […]
(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 […]
