Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 03:25:57 +0000
PDEA chief Director General Aaron Aquino denied Thursday that they only catch “small fish” or minor targets in the drug war.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:47:47 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — As consumers braced for higher oil prices and a new round of excise tax on fuel products, lawmakers urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to release its “long overdue” memorandum itemizing oil prices in the country to identify overpricing companies. Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi ordered the unbundling of prices of petroleum products […]
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:00:49 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — A total of 20,348 personnel from the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be deployed to ensure a peaceful plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL).
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:00:11 +0000
Detained Senator Leila De Lima admitted being irked and hurt when some people described her detention as “weather-weather lang.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 01:07:54 +0000
A Wisconsin man is charged with a crime after police say he stabbed a friend’s pet rat, which was eventually ‘put to sleep.’
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:52:00 +0000
A survey of sexual harassment within the UN system found sexual stories or jokes as most offensive to about a third of respondents.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:09:57 +0000
The way humanity produces and eats food must radically change to avoid millions of deaths and “catastrophic” damage to the planet.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:52:13 +0000
One in three Christians in Asia faces persecution after a “shocking increase” of religious-based threats and violence across the world.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:43:56 +0000
Four weeks into the US government shutdown, cash-strapped federal workers are tapping life savings, selling possessions and soup kitchens.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:10:40 +0000
A Marine veteran was held for possible deportation before federal authorities learned that he was a U.S. citizen, lawyers said Wednesday.
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