Vows to eat Islamic militants alive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks,reports Yahoo News. “They will pay. When the time comes, I will eat you in front of people,” Duterte told an audience of Filipinos late […]
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How can a plunderer get a hero’s burial while petty criminals are shot and dumped in the streets? Opinion Miguel Syjuco The New York Times Sept. 6, 2016 MANILA- Mornings in the Philippines reveal bodies dumped outside slums. Averaging 13 a day, nearly 2,000 in the last two months, the bodies are hung with cardboard
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By: Boying Pimentel @inquirerdotnet INQUIRER.net US Bureau 02:42 AM September 6th, 2016 The leader who instigated a bloodbath that has killed 2,000 Filipinos wants to honor a dictator who murdered 3,000 and tortured tens of thousands more. It’s a troubling, challenging time. But also a time of resistance and struggle. On September 7, Filipino
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Obama snubs Duterte By Ted Alcuitas President Barack Obama canceled a planned meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in a rare diplomatic rupture that follows an outbreak of tensions between two close allies over the Philippines’ new drug war, The Wall Street Journal reports. The White House said last week that Mr. Obama was
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Al Jazeera A blast has ripped through a night market packed with customers in President Rodrigo Duterte’s home city of Davao in southern Philippines, killing at least 12 people and wounding 60 others. A presidential spokesman said on Friday that the blast took place at the open-air market in Davao City, 960km south of the capital,
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Press Release Montreal, QC. (August 31, 2016) – Rita S Karakas, President & CEO of Canada World Youth and Leoncio B Evascco Jr., Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of the Philippines, agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between The Philippines National Youth Commission and Canada World Youth to resume Youth Exchange programmes. The
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Inquirer, August 27, 2016 ILOILO CITY, Philippines—An Iloilo businessman and his wife were shot dead early Monday at the port in Caticlan, Aklan province two days after Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa confirmed that Melvin Odicta was the drug lord in Iloilo popularly known as “Dragon.” The port is the jump-off point to
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Panels announce six agreements on 4th day of talks August 25, 2016/ Kodao Productions OSLO, Norway—The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace panels have already agreed on six major issues barely into the fourth day of their scheduled five-day talks. Moving with surprising
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Sunstar, Cagayan de Oro August 6, 2016 More under review CAGAYAN DE ORO. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) secretary Regina Lopez announced the suspension of Claver Mineral Development Corporation (CMDC) in Surigao del Norte on Thursday, August 4. This is an aerial view of the mining site. (Photo by Erwin M. Mascariñas) DEPARTMENT
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THE Supreme Court (SC) has ordered a 20-day halt on the planned burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos at Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB), Sunstar reports. In an en banc session Tuesday,(August 23 in Manila) the high tribunal issued a 20-day Status Quo Ante Order (SQAO) that would prohibit the respondents in the case
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