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Aminado naman ang Malakanyang na hindi mapaghihiwalay ang partisipasyon ng Pangulo sa democratic at electoral process sa pagtupad ng kaniyang tungkulin bilang pangulo ng bansa. Ayon kay Presidential Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma, realidad na aniya saan mang bansa na ang isang head of state ay nagiging bahagi ng pulitika. Kasabay ng paniniyak na bibigyang prioridad ang mga programa ng pamahalaan. https://youtu.be/P-RQazH3NwA
Sa lalawigan ng Capiz at Iloilo nagsimula ang kampanya ng mga pambato ng Liberal Party na sina Mar Roxas at Leni Robredo. Sa kaniyang talumpati, sinabi ni Roxas na hindi siya basta basta magpapatalo sa aniya’y mga abusado, manloloko at higit sa lahat ay mga magnanakaw. Edukasyon at hanapbuhay naman ang inilatag na plataporma ng katandem ni Roxas na si Robredo.
MANILA, Philippines — Nagsimula na kahapon, Pebrero 10 ang “national campaign” para sa mga tumatakbong Presidente, Bise-Presidente, Senador at Partylist. Isinagawa ni Liberal Party standard bearer Mar Roxas at running mate Leni Robredo ang kanilang kampanya sa Roxas City, Capiz at sa Freedom Grandstand sa Iloilo ngayong gabi. Sa Batac, Ilocos Norte naman inilunsad ang kampanya nina Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago at Sen. Bongbong Marcos. Ang tambalang Senator Grace Poe – Senator Chiz Ezcudero ng Partido Galing at […]
(Reuters) –Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying told reporters at a hastily called news conference on Tuesday (February 9) that the city’s government strongly condemned the violence which took place in the early morning. “There was a riot in Mong Kok in the early hours of today. A few hundred mobs attacked police officers and the media in Mong Kok. They damaged police cars and public properties, committed acts of arson, threw bricks and other […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — The Japanese Parliament on Tuesday (February 9) adopted a resolution condemning North Korea’s rocket launch and vowed to impose stronger sanction against Pyongyang. “North Korea pushed ahead with the launch of a ballistic missile. It’s a conduct that can be never accepted and is a clear violation of the U.N. Security Council resolutions,” Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in parliament on Tuesday. North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket carrying […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The rocket launched by North Korea at the weekend seemed more powerful than its 2012 predecessor, but Pyongyang still lacks the expertise to transform it into a ballistic missile capable of reaching the US mainland, South Korean officials said Tuesday. The comments came as leaders of South Korea, the United States and Japan discussed how to punish the North for its latest defiant launch and nuclear test, eyeing “strong and […]
(Reuters) – With the latest Syrian government offensive backed by Russian airstrikes in Aleppo, tens of thousands more Syrians have shown up at the Turkish-Syrian border, desperately hoping the gates will open. Turkey is currently hosting over 2.5 million Syrian refugees. The swelling numbers are taking a toll on many of its cities — the number of refugees in some areas such as Kilis is almost equal to that of the local population. The town […]
The Department Of Transportation and Communications said, President Benigno Aquino has signed deals that allow Philippine carriers to fly unlimited frequencies to and beyond the capital cities of the ASEAN member-countries. DOTC Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said that protocols 5 and 6 of the ASEAN Multilateral Agreement in Air Services (MAAS) were inked on February 3. This provides unlimited access to any point within the ASEAN area. The government targets to have new flights operational […]
THE Philippine embassy in Iraq said the 13 Filipino who were killed in the capitol hotel fire in Erbil, Iraq have been identified and the government is now in the process of informing their loved ones. Embassy officials said the victims, all females, were suffocated by the smoke while trying to find their way out in the darkness. There are some 1,000 Filipinos in Kurdistan, mostly hotel and restaurant workers, with some engineers and nurses. […]
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario has resigned effective March 7, and President Benigno S. Aquino III has accepted it. Malacañang confirmed yesterday Del Rosario’s resignation but did not cite a reason. Two senior diplomats, however, said the secretary has been suffering from a heart ailment. Del Rosario took a month-long leave last year to undergo back surgery in the United States, but he returned to work immediately. The country’s top diplomat was the one […]
SATTAHIP, Thailand (AFP)–The United States launched annual military exercises with Thailand on Tuesday but repeated a call for a swift return to democracy in the junta-ruled country. The two countries have held the joint Cobra Gold exercises since 1980. But Washington has come under increased pressure to scrap the event since Thailand’s military seized power in 2014 — the latest coup to obstruct attempts to build democracy. Some 3,600 US troops are in […]
According to reports, 10, 000 overseas Filipino workers have lost their jobs due to the continued weakening of the economy of the Middle Eastern countries. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
