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President Duterte vetoes four provisions in 2018 national budget

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed four provisions of the General Appropriations Act. In a copy of his message to Congress, the President vetoed Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Special Provision No. 2, which allows other executive offices of the agency to receive monitoring expenses. According to Duterte, the salary standardization law and its implementing rules already provide that board members are “authorized to receive honoraria or per diems in the performance […]

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Duterte designates Faeldon as DND-OCD deputy administrator

  (Eagle News) — Former Customs Chief Nicanor Faeldon is back in government service. In a letter dated December 22, President Rodrigo Duterte designated Faeldon as deputy administrator III of the Office of the Civil Defense. The office is under the Department of National Defense. Faeldon came under fire when he was head of the Bureau of Customs after a P6.4-billion shabu shipment managed to enter the country via Customs express lanes in May. The […]

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Gov’t to turn over temporary shelters to displaced Marawi residents on Wednesday; Duterte to lead turnover ceremonies

(Eagle News) — Around 800 temporary shelters are set to be turned over to displaced residents in Marawi on Wednesday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement in a televised press briefing in Marawi City. “We targeted to transfer 500 units but instead of just 500, we are actually transferring 800,” he said. According to Roque, of the 800, the 500 are in Sagonsongan, and the 300 in Matungao, in Lanao del Norte. The scheduled turnover–which […]

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Authorities identify 36 of 37 recovered bodies from Davao mall fire

  Authorities have already identified 36 of the reported 37 bodies recovered from the NCCC mall fire in Davao City. As of 2:40 a.m. Dec. 27, only one of the 37 bodies recovered over the weekend remains to be identified. Another missing person, the 38th, in the local government’s official list has yet to be found. In the official list, they named the 36 positively-identified victims as: 1. Sismar, Jeffrey 2. Bongcayao, Mary Louielyn 3. […]

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Military: NPA violated holiday ceasefire

(Eagle News) — The military on Wednesday accused the communist rebels of violating the unilateral ceasefire it earlier declared for the holidays, and in commemoration of the group’s anniversary. In a statement, the 10th Infantry Division said on December 25, for instance, around 30 rebels went after Arbilito Catampao, a member of the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit Active Auxiliary in Compostela Valley. Catampao only escaped the rebels by running as fast as he could. The Melale Patrol […]

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Isa pang bagyo, hahabol bago matapos ang 2017 – PAGASA

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — May isa pa umanong bagyo ang papasok sa bansa bago matapos ang taong ito. Batay sa monitoring ng Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), inaasahang magiging bagyo ang namataan nilang namumuong sama ng panahon. Inaasahan itong papasok sa Philippine area of Responsibility (PAR) sa katapusan ng Disyembre. Ayon kay Ariel Rojas, PAGASA weather forecaster, inaasahan din itong magla-landfall sa mismong bagong taon o Enero 1. Aniya, sa […]

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Meralco, posibleng magbaba ng singil sa kuryente sa Enero 2018

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Maaaring umasa ang mga customer ng Manila Electric Company (Meralco) ng mababang singil sa kuryente sa Enero ng susunod na taon. Pero ayon kay Meralco Spokesperson Joe Zaldarriaga, bagamat madalas ang pagbaba ng singil tuwing Enero ang pagbabatayan pa rin ay ang final computation mula sa generators at transmission operators. Ngayong Disyembre, bumaba rin ang singil ng Meralco ng 37 centavos (P 0.37) per kilowatt-hour (kwh). https://youtu.be/k7MfbSO2vUQ

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Senator Binay asks BSP to consider a halt in issuance of new P5 coins; says they “create confusion”

(Eagle News) — Senator Nancy Binay on Wednesday said the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas should consider suspending the issuance of new generation coins. Binay, chair of the Senate trade, commerce and entrepreneurship committee, said that while NGCs have a “new and fresh design,” and could address the issue of security, the new P5 coins in particular look a lot like the P1 coins existing in circulation, and could therefore create confusion. The new P5 coins now carry […]

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Petisyon para ideklarang terrorist group ang NPA, pinag-aaralan na ng DOJ

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pinag-aaralan na ng Department of Justice ang petisyon na ihahain sa regional trial court  upang gawing legal ang deklarasyon ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na teroristang grupo na ang New People’s Army. Naglabas ng Department Order No.779 ang kalihim na nag-aatas sa Office of the Prosecutor General na magsumite ng karampatang petisyon sa korte kaugnay sa nasabing deklarasyon. Ito ay ayon sa isinasaad ng RA No. 9372 o ang Human Security […]

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China, nakisimpatiya sa mga nasawi at naapektuhan ng bagyong “Vinta”

(Eagle News) – Nakikisimpatiya ang Chinese government sa mga Filipino sa gitna ng patuloy na pagtaas ng bilang ng nasawi sa pananalasa ng bagyong “Vinta.” Ayon kay Foreign Minister Wang Yi, naniniwala ang Tsina na sa ilalim ng kasalukuyang gobyerno ng Pilipinas ay malalampasan ng mga Pilipino ang kalamidad at maibabalik sa normal ang kanilang pamumuhay sa lalong madaling panahon. Una ng nagpaabot ng pakiki-dalamhati ang Canada, Australia at Estados Unidos sa mahigit kalahating milyong […]

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Death toll in Davao mall fire rises to 38

(Eagle News) — The number of fatalities in the fire that hit a mall in Davao City on Saturday rose to 38 early Wednesday, after authorities confirmed that a person who had been declared as missing had passed away in the deadly fire. New City Commercial Center mall employee Melvin Ga-a added to the list of the dead in the tragic incident that saw President Rodrigo Duterte rushing to the scene to console the bereaved […]

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Philippine Red Cross appeals for aid for 500,000 people affected by ‘Vinta’

  The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) appealed for humanitarian aid to help the more than 500,000 people affected by Typhoon Vinta (Tembin), which hit 23 provinces in the Philippines. PRC Chairman Senator Richard Gordon made the appeal as figures on the number of deaths and missing people from the flashfloods and landslides that struck parts of Mindanao continue to rise in the wake of ‘Vinta’. “Rural communities, which are in remote mountainous areas, are the […]

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