https://youtu.be/nG_xDqWttPg Floods hit historic highs in the South of Queensland with houses submerged and people stranded in the wake of Cyclone Debbie which battered Australia’s northeast this week. (video courtesy AFPTV)
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WATCH: President Duterte visits, gives medals to wounded soldiers in Cagayan de Oro City
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, April 2, visited the wounded-in-action soldiers (WIA) at the Camp Evangelista Station Hospital (CESH) in the 4th Infantry Division (4ID) of Camp BGen. Edilberto Evangelista, Cagayan de Oro City. He personally awarded the Wounded Personnel Medal to the WIA soldiers confined at the CESH.
President Duterte: Pangilinan’s Juvenile Justice Welfare Act has produced “criminal minds”
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called out Senator Francis Pangilinan for authoring the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act, and reiterated his support for programs that would instill discipline in the youth amid the prevailing lack of “sense of obedience” among Filipinos. In a speech during the Boy Scouts of the Philippines investiture rites, Duterte, who was wearing a Boy Scouts uniform, said Pangilinan’s law was the reason behind “five to six generations of people who committed crimes.” “I’m […]
Chinese Ambassador presents a portrait of Philippine President Duterte
Chinese Ambassador presents a portrait of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte welcomed the Ambassador of China to the Philippines, H.E. Zhao Jianhua, in a meeting at the Presidential Guest House in Panacan, Davao City on March 27, 2017. The Chinese ambassador presented to him two paintings for the President. The first was a painting of a rooster, and the second was a family portrait with President Duterte, his common-law-wife Honeylet Avancena, and daughter […]
Watch: Hopes and fears collide for Sewol parents as ferry emerges
Huddled in makeshift shipping container homes on a South Korean waterfront, the relatives of the missing from the Sewol ferry disaster have endured a harrowing wait to recover their dead children. (Video courtesy AFPTV)
Watch: South Korea raises sunken Sewol ferry
Salvage operators raise part of South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry, Yonhap news agency reports, nearly three years after the disaster killed more than 300 people and dealt a crippling blow to now-ousted president Park Geun-Hye. (Video courtesy AFPTV)
President Duterte says he trusts China will not build on disputed shoal
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that China had informed him they were not building anything on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea out of their new friendship, and he is confident that China will “not touch” the disputed shoal. Duterte’s remark came amid a comment by a mayor in charge of China-controlled disputed islands and reefs last week that preparatory work was being planned to build several monitoring stations, including […]
Emotional PAGCOR Chair hits Robredo during ASEAN Gaming Summit; says VP maligned the country
(Eagle News) — The chief of the Philippine Association of Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), the country’s gaming regulator, slammed Vice President Leni Robredo in front of foreign investors at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations gaming summit, asking them to “not believe” statements coming from the controversial vice-president. PAGCOR chief Andrea Domingo told the summit delegates that Robredo was trying to destroy the Philippines with her messages that distorted the real peace and order situation in the country. She said […]
WATCH: Angel Manalo, 2 others transferred to Camp Bagong Diwa district jail
(Eagle News) — Illegal possession of firearms suspects Angel Manalo, Jem Hemedez and a former “Magdalo” soldier identified as Jonathan Ledesma were brought on Friday morning (March 17) to the Metro Manila District Jail in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City after a Quezon City judge issued a commitment order for them to be jailed in this facility.
How to do your makeup—atop a moving tricycle
“Acads is life, but kilay is still lifer (sic)!” The quote is but one of many “quotable quotes” the girl from Iloilo makes in the almost 7-minute video. But more than the pronouncements perhaps is her one-in-a-million talent: Doing her make-up on top of a moving tricycle. Her amazing albeit death-defying act has so caught the attention of netizens, the video uploaded by Range Advertising in its Facebook account has so far already garnered more than one million views. “So guys, […]
Malacanang: Impeachment complaint vs Duterte ‘seems to be part of a larger scheme of things’
(Eagle News) — Malacanang on Thursday said the impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to be part of a “larger scheme of things.” “It just seems (like that). It just seems rather dramatic that everything seems to be coordinated at this stage,” Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a press conference minutes after the Magdalo partylist announced the filing of the complaint with the House of Representatives. Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano had said in their own […]
Magdalo files impeachment complaint vs President Duterte
(Eagle News) — The Magdalo partylist has filed an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte, saying they believed he was not fit to become the country’s chief executive. In a press conference on Thursday, Rep. Gary Alejano said the complaint filed in the House of Representatives was based on five grounds: culpable violation of the the Constitution, bribery, betrayal of public trust, graft and corruption, and other high crimes. He noted what he said was the “state policy […]
