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Duterte to incoming DILG chief: Deny rebels with weapons

May 21, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would order incoming Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Ano to make sure that no firearms and ammunition would land into the hands of the enemies of the state, particularly the communist

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Ex-military general incoming MMDA chair

May 21, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte is set to appoint retired military general Danilo Lim as chairman of Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said on Saturday that Duterte would sign Lim’s appointment paper before he leaves for an official

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Carpio: PH can file another case vs China’s war threat in SCS

May 21, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte has the constitutional duty to use all legal means, including the filing of another case against China, for its threat to use force if the Philippines would insist on the arbitral ruling and extract oil in South

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DOF eyeing DBP to be an infrastructure bank

May 21, 2017

The state-run Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) may be transformed into an infrastructure bank to help effectively carry out the Duterte administration’s high–and inclusive–growth agenda anchored on an ambitious spending program that aims to close the country’s decades-old infrastructure gap,

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Duterte forms Cabinet cluster to focus on infrastructure

May 19, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte has reorganized the Cabinet cluster system by creating an Infrastructure Cluster amid his administration’s intensified efforts to build more infrastructure projects. This was contained in Executive Order No. 24, which Duterte signed on May 16. “The Office

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China warned Philippines: Don’t force us to go to war with you

May 19, 2017

China has threatened that it will go to war with the Philippines if it would insist on the arbitral ruling, President Rodrigo Duterte disclosed on Friday. In a speech in Davao City before the members of the Philippine Coast Guard,

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Disasters, including a possible big quake, prompt shift in Balikatan thrust: Lorenzana

May 19, 2017

Shifting this year’ Balikatan thrust from territorial defense to disaster operations and terrorism is appropriate, said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana during the close of the yearly drill between the Philippines and the United States, plus Australia and Japan, which attended

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Ano to become DILG secretary after June 2 AFP turnover: Lorenzana

May 19, 2017

Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Eduardo Ano will assume his post as secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government after the turnover ceremonies on June 2, said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday. Speaking at the closing

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