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(Eagle News)– Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa on Monday (September 26) revealed that he will ask President Rodrigo Duterte to prioritize the bill allowing wiretapping of drug suspects that would hasten the campaign against illegal drugs. “I will talk to the President and request him to sign these bills, ang tawag nun, priority bills by the President. Sana mapabilis itong mga batas na ito,” Dela Rosa told members of the […]
(Eagle News)– The House of Representatives on Monday (September 26) started plenary debates on House Bill 3408 or the 2017 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), which refers to the P3.35 trillion national budget for next year. The deliberations started with a sponsorship speech of House committee on appropriations Chairman Davao City Rep. Karlo Alexei Nograles and explained the General Principles an General Provisions of the 2017 GAB. The period of amendments has been set for October […]
(Eagle News)– The Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 17 deferred on Monday (September 26) the issuance of arrest warrant and arraignment against Marine Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino and Chinese national Yan Yi Shou, following a case filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Judge Felicitas Laron-Cacanindin gave DOJ 10 days to file its comment to the omnibus motion filed by the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO). The PAO– representing both Marcelino and Yan– told the court […]
(Eagle News)– Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Sunday (September 25) revealed that two more advanced phone signal jammers will be installed next week at the New Bilibid Prison’s (NBP) Building 14, where high-profile inmates are inhibited. According to Aguirre, the signal jammers can block 3G and LTE-type mobile phones. “Ang cost nito ay P2 million each. This is only for Building 14,” he said. Aguirre informed there was no government money involved in the […]
(Eagle News)– Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Monday (September 26) stressed he will conduct Oplan Tokhang to the celebrities included in the drug list of President Rodrigo Duterte. “Sa mga artista kung ibigay ni Presidente sa akin yung listahan na yun, gusto mo i-Tokhang natin sila? Ito-tokhang natin. Sama kayo?” Dela Rosa told reporters. “Katukin natin sa kani-kaniyang bahay, kani-kaniyang TV station. Surrender na kayo kasi identified kayo […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The world’s largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China Sunday, a project Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life. The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nestled between hills in the mountainous region of Guizhou, began working around noon, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Built at a cost of 1.2 billion yuan ($180 million), the telescope dwarfs the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico as the world’s largest […]
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s air force said on Sunday it had flown more than 40 bombers and other fighter planes through a strait between Japanese islands on their way to drills in the Western Pacific. Regular long range drills in the Western Pacific and patrols over the East China Sea air defense identification zone were for the Air Force to protect China’s sovereignty and national security, China’s air force spokesman Shen Jinke said, according to […]
(Eagle News)– Malacañang on Sunday (September 25) said it will look into a WikiLeaks report that President Rodrigo Duterte permitted vigilante killings during his tenure as Davao mayor. “We will look into [it] first,” Presidential Communications Secretary Martin M. Andanar said. In a WikiLeaks cable, it pointed out that Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Regional Director Alberto Sipaco confirmed then Mayor Duterte’s knowledge and permission of the slays. “Recounting a conversation he once had with […]
(Eagle News)– Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Sunday (September 25) assured convicted drug lord Jaybee Sebastian’s presence in the next hearing of House’s justice committee, and may use force if the latter would not conform. “Kung iyong sabi mo to forcibly bring him? ‘Pag ayaw niyang sumunod ay malamang iyon ang gawin sa kanya. Kasi compulsary process iyon eh,” Aguirre said in a radio interview. He cleared up however that the justice committee has […]
WASHINGTON, Unites States (AFP) — Arnold Palmer, the golf great whose charisma and common touch made him adored by a legion of fans known as “Arnie’s Army”, died Sunday at the age of 87, the US Golf Association said. “We are deeply saddened by the death of Arnold Palmer, golf’s greatest ambassador, at age 87,” the USGA said in a statement posted on Twitter. Palmer captured seven major tournaments during his illustrious career, taking The Masters […]
United Nations, United States | AFP | Saturday 9/25/2016 – 05:27 GMT+8 | 356 words The Philippines’ foreign secretary on Saturday pushed back against criticism of President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, telling the United Nations not to interfere. “We urge everyone to allow us to deal with out domestic challenges in order to achieve our national goals, without undue interference,” Perfecto Yasay told the UN General Assembly. There has been growing international alarm […]
(Reuters) By David Brunnstrom | UNITED NATIONS Philippines Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay told the United Nations on Saturday his country’s new president, Rodrigo Duterte, had an “unprecedented” mandate and the world should not interfere in his crackdown on crime. Addressing the annual U.N. General Assembly, Yasay said the Duterte government was “determined to free the Philippines from corrupt and other stagnating practices, including the manufacture, distribution and use of illicit drugs. “Our actions, however, […]
