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(Eagle News)– The New People’s Army’s top finance officer for Mindanao has been arrested, the military said on Saturday, June 2. The Eastern Mindanao Command said Nerita Calamba de Castro was apprehended during a joint police and military operation in Barangay Ambago in Butuan on Thursday, May 31. The arrest stems from a warrant issued against her for murder. Details of the case were not revealed. According to the military, De Castro was the finance head […]
(Eagle News)–The Office of the Solicitor General has said the Commission on Audit’s flagging of over P10 million in alleged excess allowances of several OSG lawyers, including Solicitor General Jose Calida, had “no basis.” In a statement, OSG spokesperson Hector Calilung said Circular No. 85-25-E cannot prevail over existing laws. He said Republic Act No. 9417 essentially says that OSG lawyers may receive honoraria without any cap to the amount. “To allow COA Circular No. […]
by Andrew Beatty and Dave Clark Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Friday he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as originally scheduled on June 12 for a historic summit after extraordinary Oval Office talks with a top envoy from Pyongyang. Speaking after more than an hour of talks with Kim Yong Chol in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that denuclearization — and a formal […]
by Simon Morgan with Delphine Touitou Agence France Presse The world’s largest economies stood on the brink of all-out trade war as the EU, Canada and Mexico drew up retaliatory measures to Washington’s stinging steel and aluminium tariffs that came into effect on Friday. Washington angered its major allies by slapping duties of 25 percent and 10 percent on imports of aluminium and steel. The measures had actually been decided back in March, but […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — It’s one small step for Thailand, one giant leap for Southeast Asia’s smelliest fruit. Thailand plans to shoot durian into orbit to test its durability in a project that could see the staple “king of fruits” consumed in zero-gravity conditions. “In the future we want astronauts to be able to eat Thai food,” said a spokesperson for Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA). “We want to see whether […]
(Eagle News) — The state’s weather bureau on Friday announced that two low pressure areas (LPAs) that are now inside the country could develop into tropical cyclones over the weekend. On its announcement posted in its website at 3:00 a.m. on Friday, June 1, the two Low Pressure Areas (LPAs) were estimated based on all available data at 335km West Southwest of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan (9.0N, 115.8E) and at 900km East Southeast of Hinatuan, […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte led the inauguration of the newly completed 420-megawatt Pagbilao Unit 3 project coal-fired power plant here that is expected to stabilize energy supply in Luzon as well as boost the economy. In his speech, President Duterte said that the opening of the Pagbilao Unit 3 plant will also provide employment and business opportunities to resident of Quezon province – even communist rebels should they decide to lay down […]
Egie C. Asis Eagle News Service MADRID, España — Pedro Sánchez fue elegido el nuevo presidente del Gobierno de España, tras obtener la mayoría absoluta del Congreso de los Diputados en una moción de censura contra Mariano Rajoy del Partido Popular. El socialista consiguió 180 votos a favor de la moción que él mismo inició frente al escándalo de corrupción del caso Gürtel que condenó al PP. Más de 100–o 169—fueron en contra, mientras que hubo una abstención. En […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines has a new emergency hotline number. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order 56 setting telephone number 911 as such. According to the EO, this was because there was a need to comply with international standards on emergency numbers for public telecommunication networks. The new hotline number replaces the Patrol 117 hotline network which President Duterte earlier launched. All calls made to the 911 hotline will be free of charge. […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, June 1, slammed United Nations Special Rapporteur Diego Garcia-Sayan after he said President Rodrigo Duterte’s “vulgar” pronouncements against Maria Lourdes Sereno “constitute direct intimidation” and “a vicious attack on the independence of the judiciary.” “We reiterate that the President’s dislike of the ousted Chief Justice is not an attack on the judiciary or an affront to judicial independence,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement. He said the executive “recognizes […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Audit has flagged what it said were the excessive allowances received by Solicitor General Jose Calida and several lawyers of the Office of the Solicitor General. In its 2017 report, COA said Calida, Henry Angeles, Herman Cimafranca, James Candangan, Renan Ramos, Rex Bernardo Pascual, Bernard Hernandez, Ma. Antonia Edita Dizon, Raymund Rigodon, Danilo Leyva, Lilian Abenojar, John Dale Ballinan, Perfecto Adelfo Chua Cheng, Laney Layug-Delfin, and Gift Mohametano received allowances above […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Pluto is covered with surprising dunes made of methane ice, which have formed relatively recently despite the frigid dwarf planet’s very thin atmosphere, international researchers said Thursday. Pluto’s atmosphere has a surface pressure 100,000 times lower than Earth’s, which researchers suspected might be too little to allow tiny grains of solid methane to mobilize and become airborne. Yet mild winds blowing across Pluto’s surface at speeds of some 19-25 miles […]
