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BEIJING, China (AFP) — At least 33 people are missing a day after landslides swept through two east China villages, state media reported Thursday, as rescuers combed through rubble for survivors. Heavy wind and rains brought by Typhoon Megi triggered the landslides around 5:30pm (0930 GMT) Wednesday, which struck the villages of Sucun and Baofeng in eastern Zhejiang province, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Thirteen people had been rescued by early Thursday and 33 […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Senators expressed their condolences to the family of former Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago after she passed away Thursday morning (September 29). According to Senator Panfilo Lacson, Defensor-Santiago is a great loss for the country and that he admires her strength during debates. Former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile also expressed his condolences, saying that he has no hard feelings with the late senator; Senator Cynthia Villar said that the late senator was a […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – In an exclusive interview with Agila Balita Alas Dose, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Director Grace Malic discusses the devaluation of old currency by December 31, 2016.
QUEZON City, Philippines — House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said that the House of Representatives will not include the stabbing incident in the New Bilibid Prison in its investigation. Instead the House will concentrate on the alleged drug trade in the NBP in order to formulate new laws regarding the matter and will leave the issue of the NBP riot to the Department of Justice. https://youtu.be/FkEGyIyapm8
QUEZON City, Philippines – Police now have in their possession the CCTV footage of the stabbing incident that happened inside the New Bilibid Prisons. This is now being analyzed in the ongoing investigation of the Philippine National Police – Criminal Investigation and Detection Group on the controversial riot and stabbing inside the NBP’s maximum security compound that resulted in the death of convicted drug lord Tony Co and the wounding of three others, including inmates […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The New Bilibid Prison has suspended visitations to its maximum security compound. Bureau of Corrections Officer-In-Charge Superintendent Rolando Asuncion said that this was the decision of the Philippine National Police – Special Action Force after the stabbing incident that occurred in the said compound. The NBP’s medium and minimum security compounds, however, will continue to receive visitors.
by Martin Abbugao SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — OPEC shocked markets with a deal to cut oil output after kingpin Saudi Arabia allowed bitter rival Iran to be exempted, but analysts warned Thursday the move would not likely have a lasting impact. The cartel’s announcement of the first reduction in eight years sent crude prices surging up to six percent Wednesday, while energy firms in the US and Asia followed suit with huge gains. At the […]
(Eagle News)– The House of Representatives on Wednesday (September 28) finally signed the subpoenas for Ronnie Dayan, the former driver-bodyguard of Senator Leila de Lima, and two others summoning them to give their testimonies on the alleged proliferation of illegal drugs inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). Aside from Dayan, the two others issued subpoenas are former Bureau of Corrections director Franklin Jesus Bucayu, and former Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) executive director Reginald Villasanta. […]
(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. […]
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 […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (CCTV) — Israel is mourning for the loss of former President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday. The cabinet on Wednesday morning stood for a minute of silence. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then spoke in a video address in which he praised the former president’s devotion to Israel and his work to promote peace with neighboring countries. Netanyahu said Peres will always be remembered as “the beloved of the […]
