BREAKING: Duterte names ex-Davao administrator as Budget acting chief

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:45:22 +0000

BREAKING: Duterte names ex-Davao administrator as Budget acting chief

President Rodrigo Duterte has named former Davao City administrator Wendel Avisado as Budget Acting Secretary.

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Duterte says Cory is popular only for losing her husband

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:44:32 +0000

Duterte says Cory is popular only for losing her husband

MANILA, Philippines—A day after the 10th death anniversary of former President Corazon Aquino, President Rodrigo Duterte said she was only famous for losing her husband, former senator Benigno Simeon “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. “Cory Aquino maybe popular, she is popular today. Why? For losing the husband in the hands of Mr. Marcos,” Duterte said before agrarian […]

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Duterte calls Karapatan an ‘organization of demons in the Philippines’

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:28:51 +0000

Duterte calls Karapatan an 'organization of demons in the Philippines'

MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday slammed human rights group Karapatan, calling it a “front” of communists rebels and an “organization of demons in the Philippines.” Speaking before agrarian reform beneficiaries in his hometown Davao City, Duterte also claimed that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), through its armed wing the New People’s Army […]

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Palace vows not to repeat ‘mistakes of the past’ on likely Dengvaxia reuse

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:39:24 +0000

Palace vows not to repeat 'mistakes of the past' on likely Dengvaxia reuse

Malacañang on Friday vowed not to repeat the “mistakes of the past” should the government make the controversial vaccine available again.

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Claims of state-sponsored killings? Palace says baseless, malicious

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 03:06:13 +0000

Claims of state-sponsored killings? Palace says baseless, malicious

“Baseless and laced with malice” was how Malacañang described Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares’ claims on state-sponsored killings.

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Martial law? Duterte vows to do ‘something drastic’ to address PH violence

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:02:38 +0000

Martial law? Duterte vows to do ‘something drastic’ to address PH violence

MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday warned he would “do something drastic” to address the continuing lawless violence in the Philippines, following the spate of killings in Negros Oriental. “ I will explain in the coming days. But I’m about to do something drastic. It will not sit well with everybody, maybe including […]

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Malacañang ‘worried’ over Chinese workers influx

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 07:08:16 +0000

Malacañang on Thursday expressed concern over the influx of Chinese nationals in the country, backing National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, Jr.’s claim that the staggering spike in the number of Chinese workers in the country is a “security threat.”

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Palace: Ban on PCSO games not a diversion for anti-endo bill veto

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:40:13 +0000

Palace: Ban on PCSO games not a diversion for anti-endo bill veto

Malacañang denied that the order to stop all PCSO games was just a diversion from the veto of the Security of Tenure bill.

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Panelo: Duterte’s verbal ban on PCSO games ‘legal’

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:41:50 +0000

President Duterte’s order stopping all PCSO gaming schemes, even without a formal document, is legal, his spokesman Salvador Panelo said.

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