Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 02:07:12 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – With only 800 inspectors in its roster, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is having a tough time identifying ad going after all illegal foreign workers in the country.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:54:07 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday reported that it confiscated a record 776.06 kilograms of shabu worth P5.27 billion in the first quarter of 2019, the highest recorded seizure in the drug law enforcement history.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:26:49 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-) has resumed normal operations after one of its trains encountered a technical problem Friday afternoon.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:14:04 +0000
MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said he is open to issuing firearms to state prosecutors to protect themselves.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:30:19 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Vicente Sotto III is ready to ask President Rodrigo Duterte to veto the entire 2019 General Appropriations BIll (GAB) if indeed the Senate also made realignments even after it was ratified by Congress.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:53:26 +0000
LONDON – Meetings are planned Thursday between the British government and the opposition Labour Party in an urgent search for a compromise solution to the country’s departure from the European Union.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:24:43 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – An electrical switch malfunction triggered a fire in a hotel in Manila on Tuesday night, the city police department said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:01:48 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court’s recent order to release “Oplan Tokhang” police reports is a huge step in exacting accountability from the perpetrators,” of the government’s bloody war on drugs, former human rights chair Etta Rosales said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:29:01 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Following the video scandal involving singer Jim Paredes, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Wednesday warned that those who shared the said video will be held liable.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:39:21 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Tuesday that women have “legitimate claims” to seek more justice and equality in the Catholic Church, but stopped short of endorsing more sweeping calls from his own bishops to recognize the “urgency of an inevitable change” to give them leadership roles.
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