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Duterte signs new anti-hazing law

July 11, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 seeking to ban all forms of hazing in the country about 10 months after the death of University of Sto. Tomas (UST) law student Horacio  Castillo III in Manila. “All forms

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Tawi-Tawi vice mayor shot dead in Zamboanga City

July 11, 2018

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot a vice mayor from Tawi-tawi at a busy street,  police reported Wednesday. Senior Insp. Shellamie Chang, Zamboanga City Police information officer, said  Al-Rasid Mohammad Alih, 53, the vice mayor of Sapa-Sapa town in Tawi-Tawi, was

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Impasse on Bangsamoro bill resolved after Duterte’s intervention

July 11, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign into law the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law before he delivers his third State of the Nation Address on July 23 after the impasse on the bicameral conference committee of Congress has been resolved through his

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At least 44,000 apprehended for violating ordinances in Metro Manila: police

July 11, 2018

At least 44,000 people were apprehended in Metro Manila for violating ordinances and other laws since President Rodrigo Duterte ordered police to round up loiterers last month. Chief Superintendent Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, director of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), said 44,230 persons

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Police recover car of suspects in killing of Cavite vice mayor

July 11, 2018

Authorities recovered the vehicle allegedly used by suspects in the killing of Trece Martires Vice Mayor Alexander Lubigan, a police spokesperson said Wednesday. Supt. Chitadel Gaoiran, public information chief of the Calabarzon region police, said according to Special Investigation Task Group

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Mynah birds, blue-naped parrots confiscated by authorities in Palawan

July 11, 2018

Authorities early Wednesday morning confiscated 76 mynah birds, 125 blue-naped parrots and an unidentified species at Barangay Quinlogan, Quezon, Palawan. The alleged caretaker, named Joseph a.k.a “langgo” Quintayo, escaped and abandoned his five-year-old child. The child was turned over to Quezon’s

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Four-year-old boy dies from stray bullet in Cebu anti-drug operation

July 11, 2018

A four-year-old boy died after being hit by a stray bullet during a police anti-illegal drugs operation in Cebu City on Tuesday. Supt. Reyman Tolentin, Central Visayas regional police spokesman, identified the victim as Blader Skyler Capuno Abatayo, a resident of

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Duterte has own standards on who’s competent or not, Palace says

July 11, 2018

Malacanang defended on Wednesday President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement calling Vice President Leni Robredo as incompetent. In a radio interview, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the President could have made such remark because his basis was his almost 30 years of

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