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Duterte to quit if Trillanes can prove he has P2-billion bank deposit

February 17, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte said he will resign from his post if Senator Antonio Trillanes can prove that he has amassed P2 billion. Duterte issued a recorded message Thursday night debunking Trillanes’ allegation and he even dared the senator to go

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Woman lawyer shot dead in front of children in Tagbilaran City  

February 16, 2017

Unidentified men shot a woman lawyer in front of her three children inside her car in Tagbiliran City on Wednesday, police said. Mia Manuelita Mascarinas-Green, 49, was driving her Toyota Innova with her three children when two men on a

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Duterte to meet three left-leaning Cabinet members on Monday

February 16, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte is set to meet next week the three left-leaning Cabinet officials who are expected to encourage him to resume peace talks with the communist rebels. In a press briefing in Malacanang on Thursday, National Anti-Poverty Commission Secretary

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Surigao quake damage surpasses P500 million: NDRRMC

February 16, 2017

Damage caused by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that killed eight persons in Surigao Del Norte has risen more than half a billion pesos, the National Risk Reduction and Management Council reported on Thursday. Based on its latest report, damage to

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Korean victim’s wife urges Duterte to exclude NBI from probing kidnap-slay case

February 16, 2017

The wife of a South Korean businessman who was allegedly killed by his abductors inside Camp Crame last year appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the National Bureau of Investigation from investigating the kidnap-slay case. Choi Kyung Jin, in

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“Time to move on from just celebrating the past”, says Abella of Edsa anniversary

February 16, 2017

The Duterte administration will have a “simple” commemoration of the 31st anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution on February 25 as the government wants the country to move forward, Malacanang said on Thursday. There are reports the commemoration of

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Duterte”trusts” SolGen decision on appealing Napoles illegal detention

February 16, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte trusts Solicitor General Jose Calida, being his “alter ego”, on his manifestation to the Court of Appeals that businesswoman Janet Napoles was not guilty of committing serious illegal detention of her former aide. In a press briefing

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Palace says Trillanes’ allegations of Duterte’s P2.4b in bank is “rehash”

February 16, 2017

Malacanang branded on Thursday as “rehash” the allegation of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV that President Rodrigo Duterte has ill-gotten wealth worth P2.4 billion. In an interview, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said the “ball” is now with the Bank

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