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Cebu landslide deaths now 29, 56 missing: police

September 21, 2018

The death toll because of a landslide incident in Cebu reached 29 with nine injured, a police spokesman said Friday. Supt.  Reyman Tolentin of the central Visayas regional police spokesman said some fatalities were identified as Althea Siton, 4, Olivia Meneses

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Ex-Senator Pimentel says better for Mocha Uson to remain in entertainment industry than meddle on federalism

September 21, 2018

Former Senate President Aquilino Pimentel Jr. advised on Friday Presidential Communications Operation Office Assistant Secretary Margaux “Mocha” Uson to better remain in the entertainment industry than to be involved in informing Filipinos about federalism. In the federalism press briefing in

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Foreign Minister’s Commendation awarded to PHILFEJA

September 21, 2018

On September 19, Japanese Ambassador Koji Haneda hosted a reception at his residence to celebrate the awarding of the Foreign Minister’s Commendation to the Philippine Federation of Japan Alumni (PHILFEJA), the umbrella organization for Japanese scholarship alumni organizations in the

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Marcos “lost” mandate that’s why he declared martial law, Roque says

September 21, 2018

The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos had no more mandate that is why he declared martial law unlike  President Rodrigo Duterte who is still enjoying the support of most Filipinos, Malacanang said on Friday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the statement

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21 dead in Naga City landslide: police

September 21, 2018

The death toll in Naga City landslide reached at least 21 Thursday night, police said. Nine people were injured, police added. Part of the mountain of Sitio Sindulan, Barangay Tina-an in Naga City eroded and covered around 24 homes on

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Typhoon deaths near 100, says PNP report

September 21, 2018

Deaths from last week’s Typhoon Ompong neared 100, with more than coming from the Cordillera Administrative Region when a landslide buried a bunkhouse in  a mining town, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Friday. In its report, the PNP

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Duterte finds “refreshing” Bolton’s attack vs ICC

September 21, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday the criticism of US National Security Adviser John Bolton against the International Criminal Court (ICC) was “quite refreshing to us.” In a speech in a military camp in Capas, Tarlac, Duterte welcomed the “international pressure” to

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Estrada suspends classes in all levels in Manila

September 20, 2018

There will be no classes in all levels in public and private schools in the City of Manila on Friday, said Mayor Joseph Estrada. In an executive order issued Thursday, Estrada said the Office of the Mayor received reports “from

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