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(Eagle News) — Nagbabala ang Manila Police District (MPD) sa publiko na iwasan ang pagpo-post sa social media ng kanilang mga aktibidad at lokasyon ngayong mahabang bakasyon lalo na ang ‘updates’ at ‘live’ sa facebook para na rin sa kanilang seguridad. Sinabi ni Manila Police District spokesperson, Supt. Erwin Margarejo na hindi dapat ipaalam sa ibang tao ang lokasyon at kung sinu-sino sa miyembro ng pamilya ang kasama dahil sasalamin ito sa kung may naiwang […]
(Eagle News) — Tinupad ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang kahilingan ng isang labing-isang taong gulang na bata para batiin ang kanyang mga kaklase at guro sa isang paaralan sa California, USA. Ang sulat kamay na liham ng batang si Andre Esteban ay pinost ng kanyang inang si Almyra Grace Custodio sa kanyang Facebook account na ni-repost naman ni Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol sa kanyang account. Nakasaad sa liham ni Andre na gagawa ng report si […]
(Eagle News) — Former Senator Jinggoy Estrada has asked the Sandiganbayan to allow him to accompany his father, who will undergo a medical exam and possible procedure in Singapore in November. In a four-page motion submitted to the fifth division, where he is facing a complaint over the alleged pork barrel scam, Estrada said that Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada’s appointment with Dr. Premkumar Pillay from the Singapore Brain-Pine Nerves Center at Mount Elizabeth Hospital is […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has designated Kabayan Partylist Rep. Harry Roque as presidential spokesperson. Roque himself confirmed in a dzmm radio interview early Saturday that he had accepted the offer, but that he would assume the post on Nov. 6. “Ako po ay manunungkulan pagka-landing po namin sa Japan dahil kasama po ako sa delegasyon ni Presidente papuntang Japan,” Roque said. The President is slated to be on a 3-day working visit to […]
(Eagle News) — Isko Moreno has resigned as chief executive officer of the North Luzon Railways Corp. In his resignation letter dated Oct. 27 and submitted to President Rodrigo Duterte, Moreno, whose real name is Francisco Domagoso, said he was resigning as member of the Board of Directors and as chairman of the NLRC for personal reasons. Moreno said his resignation was “effective immediately.” “I am truly honored and deeply grateful for the opportunity to […]
(Eagle News) — United States ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim has clarified that the US Central Intelligence Agency has no plans of removing President Rodrigo Duterte from office or overthrowing his administration. “President Duterte won a very impressive election. We respect his election and we are in fact working very well together with his administration,” he said. Kim was reacting to what President Duterte said last week. “They say that the CIA wanted me […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attend the East Asia Summit next month, standing in for US President Donald Trump. President Trump will however attend the gala dinner for the 50th anniversary of the Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) on November 12. Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said that President Trump will also attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vietnam also in […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte warned about the possibility of the New People’s Army (NPA) adopting terrorist tactics. Duterte said that the NPA already tried conventional warfare and guerrilla warfare but lost to the government. Duterte said that the NPA remains a serious threat to the country.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has designated Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea as caretaker of the government while he is on a three-day working visit to Japan. President Duterte, through special order No. 977, said Medialdea shall “act as (officer in charge) to take care of the day-to-day operations in the Office of the President,” and “oversee the general administration of the executive department” from Oct. 29 to Oct. 31. “He shall, if necessary, act […]
(Eagle News) — A day after his official retirement as Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff, Lt. General Eduardo Año was appointed Department of the Interior and Local Government undersecretary. President Rodrigo Duterte himself made the appointment in an Oct. 26 memorandum sent to the DILG. Earlier, Duterte said Año, who retired after reaching the mandatory age of retirement for military officers, could serve as special assistant to the president or DILG undersecretary, whichever was […]
Three others ordered indicted over P50-million extort plot (Eagle News) — The Ombudsman has ordered the filing of a plunder complaint against former Immigration commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles over what the anti-graft body said was their extortion of P50 million from Chinese businessman Jack Lam in 2016. This was despite the Department of Justice’s earlier disclosure that the P50 million, which was supposedly in exchange for the release of Lam’s 1316 workers who […]
by Cecil Morella Agence France-Presse BALO-I, Lanao del Sur (AFP) — Cradling her baby in a muddy tent camp, Jamalia Pindaton has no idea if she can return home to Marawi in the southern Philippines after the end of a five-month war launched by Islamic State supporters. More than 350,000 people from in and around Marawi, the mainly Catholic Philippines’ Islamic capital, were displaced because of the conflict, which ended on Monday when soldiers killed […]
