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(Eagle News)– With a vote count of 18-0-0, the Senate on Monday (May 15) approved on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 1365 or the Philippine Passport Act extending the validity of Philippine passports from five years to 10 years. The bill was authored by Senators Richard Gordon, Cynthia Villar, Ralph Recto, JV Ejercito, Loren Legarda, Sonny Angara, Joel Villanueva, Grace Poe, and Alan Peter Cayetano. Under the bill, regular passports shall be valid […]
(Eagle News)– Detained former senator Jinggoy Estrada has submitted to the Sandiganbayan a motion for him to be allowed to undergo a medical checkup for his sore right shoulder. Estrada’s camp pleaded before the anti-graft court’s 5th Division to allow him to be immediately brought to the Cardinal Santos Medical Center, San Juan for examination due to extreme pain in his right shoulder he experienced on May 11. Attached to his motion is a medical […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Former Transportation Secretary Jun Abaya denied there was any anomaly in the procurement of new trains and in the maintenance contract of the Metro Rail Transit. This despite Abaya indirectly admitting that PH Trams, who became the MRT-3’s maintenance contractor for nine months in 2012-2013, won the contract even if it was undercapitalized and newly incorporated. During the Senate Committee on public services hearing chaired by Senator Grace Poe on Monday, he was quick to add, however, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – House of Representatives Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas warned Magdalo party-list representative Gary Alejano that he may face perjury and ethics complaints as a result of the “hearsay” content of his impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte. During the hearing, Alejano admitted that he does not have direct knowledge about the thousands of killings he alleged in the complaint.
QUEZON City, Philippines – Malacañang is confident that the impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte will be dismissed. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the impeachment complaint filed by Magdalo Representative Gary Alejano has no basis. Abella added that the Palace will leave it to the House of Representatives Committee on Justice to rule on the substance and form of the impeachment complaint.
(Eagle News)– The Sandiganbayan First Division on Monday (May 15) denied the request of alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles to be transferred to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) detention center, and instead ordered her to be moved to Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City. In an open court hearing, the First Division granted the prosecution’s motion to have Napoles detained at Camp Bagong Diwa, saying there was no evidence that Napoles will […]
(Eagle News)– Officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) formally launched on Monday (May 15) the Brigada Eskwela. The Brigada Eskwela is an annual program of DepEd which sees teachers, students, parents, and other parties cooperate in preparing public school classrooms for use in the coming school year. Aside from fixing school amenities, classrooms and school buildings will also be examined to see if these can withstand natural calamities. Teachers will also undergo training for disaster preparedness […]
PAMPANGA, Philippines (Reuters)– A fire broke out at a Japanese-owned tire factory in the northern Philippine province of Pampanga on Sunday (May 14). Around 900 workers at the Yokohama Tire Philippines Inc. factory were evacuated after the fire was spotted around 3 PM local time (0700 GMT). The fire lasted for three hours. Authorities have yet to find its cause. No casualties or losses have been reported, but the factory’s operation remained suspended on Monday (May 15). The […]
(Eagle News) – The House justice committee has voted to declare as “sufficient in form” but “insufficient in substance” the impeachment complaint filed by Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano against President Rodrigo Duterte. “We hereby declare that the impeachment complaint is sufficient in form. We will now proceed with the determination on the sufficiency of substance,” Rep. Reynaldo Umali, the chair of the House committee on Justice said. Oriental Mindoro Rep. Doy Leachon then moved to […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Monday (May 15) started deliberations on the impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte by Magdalo Party List Rep. Gary Alejano last March, with the House leaders questioning Alejano on his personal knowledge on the contents of his complaint. As the hearing progressed, Alejano admitted he had no personal knowledge as to the material allegations on his complaint but that he had just perused newspaper reports […]
(Eagle News) –President Rodrigo Duterte said the P3-million increase in his net worth was because of excess campaign donations for the 2016 elections. “Those were excess funds… The money no longer has purpose. I do not know where they came from. I declared that as income,” President Duterte told reporters in Hong Kong. He assured the public he paid income taxes for the increase. During his speech before the Filipino community in Hong Kong on […]
by Laurent Thomet / Yanan Wang Agence France Presse China on Sunday touted its new Silk Road as “a project of the century” at a summit highlighting its growing leadership on globalization, but a North Korean missile test competed for attention. President Xi Jinping hosted leaders from 29 nations for the two-day summit in Beijing ending Monday after United States and South Korean military officials confirmed that Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile. Delegations from […]
