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(Eagle News)– Authorities on Thursday, July 6, started implementing nationwide the Anti-Distracted Driving Act (ADDA) with new implementing rules and regulations (IRR), and have caught 33 violators so far. Under the improved IRR, drivers of all types of vehicles, whether private or public, who are caught fiddling with their cell phones and other entertainment devices while driving will be fined. Drivers are only exempted from the law if they need to use their phones because […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II is considering placing the man whose entire family of five was killed in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, under the government’s Witness Protection Program (WPP). Aguirre said if Dexter Carlos Sr. was qualified, they would fast-track his admission into the program to ensure his security. He noted that the department would also do what it could to provide Carlos the assistance he needs. Carlos is being assisted by the […]
(Eagle News) — El embajador de Panamá en Filipinas, H.E. Rolando Guevara, visitó al templo Central de la Iglesia de Cristo en Quezon City el miércoles, y tuvo una audiencia con el Ministro Ejecutivo de la Iglesia, el hermano Eduardo V. Manalo, siendo el primer embajador de Latinoamérica en hacer la visita. El embajador dijo que estaba abrumado por la bienvenida tan cálida que recibió cuando llegó a Central, donde las personas agitaron banderitas de […]
(Eagle News) — Panama’s Ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Rolando Guevara Alvarado on Wednesday (July 5) visited Iglesia Ni Cristo Central Office in Quezon City, as he made a courtesy call to INC Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo, becoming the first Latin American ambassador to visit the INC main office. The ambassador said he was “overwhelmed” with the warm welcome he received at the INC Central Office, where people waved flaglets of Panama […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that he will ask for the extension of the martial law in Mindanao only if the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) will recommend this. The President said only the AFP and the PNP are capable of determining if there is a need for a martial law extension based on the assessment of their ground commanders. “When is the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine Air Force (PAF) used its air assets as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) resumed its airstrikes against the remaining Islamist militants in Marawi City. It is now the 43rd day after President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao following the Maute Group attack on May 23. At past 6 a.m., fighter jets of the PAF started dropping bombs in Maute-held territories in Marawi City.
(Eagle News) — Three suspected supporters of the Maute group were arrested by authorities in a raid in Cagayan de Oro on Wednesday. Members of the Martial Law Special Action Group apprehended Monaliza Solaiman Romato, Gazim Mantawazi Abdullah, and Tahera Romato Taher in a raid in a house in Aluba in Barangay Macasandig. The authorities were armed with a search warrant when they raided the house owned by Irene Romato Idris, believed to be a financier […]
MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Norte (Eagle News) – Nabawi na ng militar ang Dansalan College na ginamit bilang stronghold ng Maute Terror Group sa Marawi City. Isang buwan ding inokupahan ng mga terorista ang nasabing eskwelahan. Sinunog pa nila ang ilang bahagi nito nang una nilang salakayin ang lungsod. Ang eskwelahan ay nagsilbing pwesto sa mga sniper at mga humahawak ng machine gun sa panig ng mga terorista. Ayon kay Task Force Marawi Spokesperson Lt. […]
(Eagle News) – The European Union said it was giving P48 million (850,000 euros) of financial aid to help the thousands of civilians displaced by the ongoing fight in Marawi. The financial assistance–coursed through the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)– will be used to provide for the necessities, including food, water, and health care, of over 50,000 people. “This grant from the EU will support the delivery of immediate life-saving assistance […]
(Eagle News) — Two of the six Vietnamese who were kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf group from Basilan last year have been found dead, a military official said on Wednesday. Capt. Joan Petinglay, spokesperson of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, said in a radio interview that the decapitated heads of the two were found alongside their cadavers in Barangay Tumahubong, Sumisip, Basilan, at 5:40 a.m. “Most likely, desperate measures itong ginawa nila (Abu Sayyaf) ngayon,” […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he “respect(ed)” the dissenting opinions of some Supreme Court justices with respect to the declaration of martial law in Mindanao. He also noted, however, that “it (was) a very shortsighted thing,” considering the fact that Marawi, where local terrorists inspired by the Islamic State launched offensives on May 23 in a bid to carve out a province for the international terrorist group, was located in Central Mindanao. “You have […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte assured the man whose family of five was murdered in their house in San Jose del Monte that justice would be done, noting that criminals had nowhere to hide in the country. “Kahit saan ka magtago, I will catch up with you. Pag kriminal ka, mahirap buhayin ang kriminal. Isang kriminal dito kinakailangan may relatives sila sa kabilang bayan,” Duterte said in an interview with reporters after he visited […]
