Lacson: Duterte may face bigger problems with jail threat vs impeachment backers

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 01:03:05 +0000

Lacson: Duterte may face bigger problems with jail threat vs impeachment backers

Senator Lacson raised few scenarios in relation to President Duterte’s threat against proponents of an impeachment complaint against him.

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Palace: Critics want risky, ‘isolationist’ policy vs China

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:42:12 +0000

President Duterte’s critics are pushing for an “aggressive, isolationist” policy against China that would be “dangerous” for the Philippines, Malacañang said.

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Duterte distances himself from speakership race: ‘Labo-labo nalang kayo’

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:11:24 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he will let lawmakers decide who will be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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Duterte on impeachment proponents: I’ll jail them all

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:20:43 +0000

Duterte on impeachment proponents: I'll jail them all

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday threatened to send to jail those who would file an impeachment case against him over his alleged failure to protect the country’s territory, especially its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), from Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea.

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Duterte: EEZ provision in PH Constitution for the ‘senseless, thoughtless’

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:58:53 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday that the provision in the Consitution for the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is for the “senseless and thoughtless” and China won’t honor it.

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Sison on PH economic zone row: ‘It’s Duterte who is stupid’

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:40:52 +0000

EXILED Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison called President Rodrigo “stupid” and a “traitor” for allowing China to fish within the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone…READ

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Now Duterte says Filipino vessel in Recto Bank ‘sideswiped’

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:00:09 +0000

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday declared that the Filipino fishing boat in the Recto Bank incident was “sideswiped” and not “rammed” by a Chinese vessel as what had been reported….READ

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Sri Lanka leader orders execution of 4 drug convicts

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 23:17:03 +0000

Sri Lanka leader orders execution of 4 drug convicts

Sri Lanka’s president said on Wednesday that he has ordered the executions of four drug offenders who will be hanged in prison soon, amid alarm over drug-related crimes in this Indian Ocean island nation.

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Guard constitutional order, law grads told

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:22:23 +0000

Guard constitutional order, law grads told

Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Vicente Mendoza on Tuesday exhorted the graduating class of the University of the Philippines College of Law

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