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Agriculture dept. lifts ban on shipping poultry products from Luzon to other parts of the country

August 22, 2017

The Department of Agriculture lifted on Monday a ban on shipment of poultry products from Luzon to other parts of the country after a bird flu outbreak in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said they have lifted

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Australian laboratory confirms bird flu virus in Pampanga

August 22, 2017

Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol showed the result from Australian Animal Health Laboratory confirming the presence of bird flu in Pampanga to debunk comments it was hasty in declaring the presence of the virus “Australian Animal Health Laboratory confirms positive presence of bird flu in

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Dominguez confident on Lapena as incoming Customs chief

August 22, 2017

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III expressed confidence on incoming Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Isidro Lapena. In a forum with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) in Manila, Domingo said the change in the BOC would just be

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Mile Long tenants have option to stay, but rates to go up, DOF chief says

August 22, 2017

Tenants of government-owned Mile Long property in Makati City could stay but they have to pay higher rates, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said on Tuesday. Dominguez said the government will send letters to the 240 tenants of Mile Long

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Duterte says China assured him no construction on sandbar off Pagasa Island

August 21, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday night China made an assurance they would not construct anything on a sandbar, which is part of the Pagasa Island occupied by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea. “China assured me that they will

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Duterte vows justice for 17-year old boy if proven that cops murdered him

August 21, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Monday night justice would be served if the 17-year old boy was found to have been murdered by the policemen during their anti-drug operation in Caloocan City. In a press conference in Malacanang, Duterte said when he

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Duterte accepts Faeldon’s resignation, to be replaced by PDEA chief

August 21, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday night he would appoint Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Isidro Lapena as the new head of the Bureau of Customs. In an hastily-called press conference in Malacanang, Duterte said he would accept Faeldon’s resignation. Duterte

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Dela Rosa, citing reports, says Kian was “drug courier”, but dismayed with police operation

August 21, 2017

Philippine National Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said 17-year-old Kian Lloyd Delos Santos,  who was killed in a police operation in Caloocan , was used as a “drug courier” by his father. “The Northern Police District told me that the

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