Duterte reactivates El Niño Task Force 

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:30:39 +0000

Duterte: No martial law in Negros Oriental

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has reactivated the government’s El Niño Task Force to mitigate the effects of the dry spell in the Philippines. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, by authority of the President, signed Memorandum Order No. 38  on August 13, “reactivating and reconstituting” the task force formed in 2001 under former President Gloria […]

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Medialdea files 3rd libel complaint vs Ramon Tulfo

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 05:51:13 +0000

Medialdea files 3rd libel complaint vs Tulfo

MANILA, Philippines — Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea filed his third libel complaint on Tuesday against Special Envoy for Public Diplomacy to China and journalist Ramon Tulfo over a column published in The Manila Times. Medialdea’s lawyer Elvis Balayan confirmed this in a text message, saying the libel was related to Tulfo’s July 25 and August […]

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Medialdea files 4 more counts of libel vs Ramon Tulfo 

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:57:17 +0000

True to his word that more would be coming, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea filed more libel complaints against journalist Ramon Tulfo.

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Palace: UNHRC resolution on PH drug war probe ‘an abuse’

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:46:29 +0000

Palace: UNHRC resolution on PH drug war probe 'an abuse'

Malacañang slammed as an “abuse of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) processes” the Iceland-led resolution that would probe the human rights situation in the Philippines.

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Fake: Palace denies memo on non-apprehension of TNVS drivers, operators 

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 06:48:14 +0000

Fake: Palace denies memo on non-apprehension of TNVS drivers, operators 

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang denied Friday that Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea signed a memorandum to exempt TNVS drivers

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BREAKING: Palace lifts ban on travel to Canada by gov’t execs 

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:50:59 +0000

Malacañang has lifted its directive for government officials to refrain from traveling to Canada, Executive Secretary Medialdea said Tuesday.

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