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By Azer N. Parrocha MANILA (PNA) — Malacanang on Saturday maintained that the Philippine government would not respond to provocative actions by China following reports of movements by Chinese ships in two reefs in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). “The chosen track that we have taken is that we do not respond to provocative action,” said deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte in an interview over state-run dzRB radio. “We always exhaust the […]
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, spelling out a defiant message to Russia in his inaugural speech on Saturday. The 48-year-old billionaire took the oath of office before parliament, buoyed by Western support but facing a crisis in relations with Russia as a separatist uprising seethes in the east of his country. Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in […]
HANOI (PNA/VNS) — Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance Department (VSFD) staff has reported high-capacity Chinese vessels in waters around the Haiyang Shiyou-981 rig, which is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters. They said the vessels had bulbous bows and were accompanied by two Chinese coast-guard ships. Together with Chinese fishing vessels, they kept on hampering Vietnamese vessels, occasionally throwing stones and bottles. China still has a fleet of between 110-115 ships around the rig, including about 40 coast-guard […]
(Reuters) — At least 58 people have been killed and many more are missing in flash floods that hit parts of northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Saturday (June 7). The floods were caused by heavy rain that fell overnight in the Gozargah-e Noor district of the northern Baghlan province. Residents of the flooded area said many people have lost their homes. “Some 500 houses were destroyed in these floods and nearly 60 people have been killed also […]
(Reuters) – Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday in an attack that government officials blamed on a dispute over cattle. The victims, who included several pregnant women, had been shot, stabbed or burned inside their homes. A Reuters cameraman on the scene in the village of Mutarule counted 37 bodies, some of them lying inside a village church. Residents […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Aquino officially appointed Rebecca Calzado as the new OWWA chief, at the same time also naming four new ambassadors. Calzado’s appointment was announced Friday (June 6) by deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte at a press briefing in Malacañang. She replaced Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) administrator Carmelita Dimzon who decided to leave the agency. Dimzon retired from government service after turning 65, the mandatory retirement age for government workers and officials, last […]
One student was killed and three were injured when an unidentified suspect entered a college in Seattle and began shooting. Said suspect was subdued with the help of other students.
After her third try, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova entered the finals of the French open after beating her Canadian opponent.
Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte said Malacanang would not condone the act of some officials of the Philippine National Police selling firearms to the New People’s Army.
The camp of the Senator Ramon Revilla Jr., will immediately take action to prevent the senator’s arrest, as they announced the move to file a motion for judicial determination of probable cause or motion for suspension of proceedings before the Sandiganbayan.
Malacañang is happy with the filing of cases against those involved in the pork barrel scam, with Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte saying that it is a step forward to determine the truth. Senate President Franklin Drilon said he hoped the judicial process will be properly followed, and that the accused would be given a fair trial by the Sandiganbayan. He said he would not allow the arrest of the three senators inside the Senate […]
Actress Krista Miller explains her visit to a high profile inmate of the New Bilibid Prisons, convicted druglord Ricardo Camata, when he was being treated at the Metropolitan Medical Center, saying that she only wanted to sell a condominium unit to him. A closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage showed that Miller and her handlers stayed in the Metropolitan Medical Center for an hour, while she and Camata were left alone in his room for 10 minutes. The Department […]
