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Credit to Author: Dempsey Reyes| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:07:14 +0000

United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has urged all nations, especially claimants to the hotly contested South China (West Philippine) Sea, to take a stand publicly by asserting their sovereign rights and to adopt public postures. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, Esper cited the recently concluded Association of […]

Credit to Author: BERNADETTE T. REYES| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:14:31 +0000

THERE is no need to evacuate Filipinos in Hong Kong, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday said. The DFA has assured the public that contrary to false reports circulating on social media, Filipinos in Hong Kong “remain safe and are largely unaffected by the ongoing protests in the area.” Hence, the government “sees […]

Credit to Author: Divina Nova Joy Dela Cruz| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:14:48 +0000

Analysts believe that the entry of Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo into the “war on drugs” scene as co-chairman of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) could lead to changes in the campaign. For political analyst Ramon Casiple, Robredo could be an eye-opener to problem areas such as killings, which she could help curb. […]

Credit to Author: DEMPSEY REYES| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:36:00 +0000

DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana warned on Sunday that the series of earthquakes that rocked various areas in Mindanao had triggered a humanitarian crisis. “It is a humanitarian crisis. Many houses were damaged, the house owners already left [their respective homes] because of the aftershocks, fearing debris may fall on them,” he told reporters in a […]

Credit to Author: Eireene Jairee Gomez| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:31:41 +0000

(First of 2 parts) BACOLOD CITY: “If the liberalization will go on, then the sugar industry will die.” Raymond Montinola, spokesman for the Confederation of Sugar Producers Associations Inc., made this declaration in connection with the government’s plan to liberalize sugar imports. For years, the country’s sugar industry has been threatened by high cost of […]

Credit to Author: GLEE JALEA| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:27:45 +0000

BANGKOK: Beijing said on Sunday that it is “ready to work” with Southeast Asian nations on a code of conduct in the South China (West Philippine) Sea, where it is accused of bullying fellow claimants and building up military installations. China claims most of the resource-rich waterway, a major global shipping route and long a […]

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:25:15 +0000

Filipino-American Wesley So made history by winning the first World Fisher Random Chess Championship at the expense of top-ranked Magnus Carlsen on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) at the Henei Onstad Art Canter in Norway. So, who started representing the United Sates in 2014, dominated Carlsen in the final, 13.5 to 2.5. The Cavite-born woodpusher subdued […]

Credit to Author: Bernadette Tamayo| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:20:22 +0000

SEN. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday urged the government to be consistent in releasing calamity funds for the rehabilitation of quake-hit areas. The senator made the appeal amid the scheduled rehabilitation of some parts of Mindanao damaged by strong earthquakes. “Ang isang kamalian ‘pag nagkaroon ng disaster, pursigido lamang ang gobyerno sa unang linggo, unang buwan, tapos […]

Credit to Author: Javier J. Ismael| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:58:52 +0000

SEN. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go on Friday said he would ask President Rodrigo Duterte to review the contracts of Manila Water Co. Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Inc., as the two companies started implementing rotating service interruptions on Thursday. The senator stressed that the President was angered by reports of another water shortage in Metro […]