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Genkai mayor returns dubious money after nuclear scandal erupts

January 23, 2020

Genkai, Saga Pref.–The mayor of a southwestern Japan town hosting a Kyushu Electric Power Co. nuclear plant has revealed that he returned dubious money he had received from a construction firm, only after a high-profile nuclear business scandal erupted elsewhere

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Duterte not hiding anything about his health, Palace says

Duterte not hiding anything about his health, Palace says

January 23, 2020

President Rodrigo Duterte is not hiding anything about his health, Malacanang said on Thursday.   Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement following a recent Social Weather Survey ( SWS), showing that seven out of 10 Filipinos are worried about

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Duterte says he won’t go to US

January 23, 2020

President Rodrigo Duterte has declined an invitation by US President Donald Trump for Southeast Asian leaders to attend a summit in Las Vegas in March. In an interview by Russia’s state-owned media RT on January 21, Duterte said he just

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Residents still in 14-kilometer danger zone on their own: police

January 23, 2020

Residents who chose to remain within the 14-kilometer danger zone around Taal Volcano at the end of the 48-hour deadline to vacate on Thursday are on their own. Batangas police director Col. Edwin Quilates said they will no longer conduct

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Palace assures foreign, local investors nothing to worry about govt’s contract review

January 23, 2020

Malacanang assured anew on Thursday that foreign and local investors have nothing to worry about the ongoing review by the government on certain contracts. This as Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a review on

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PSE index shrugs off eight-year low 2019 growth data

January 23, 2020

The main Philippne share index shrugged off the eight-year low growth figures for 2019 to end higher on Thursday. But the peso ended at P50.80 against the US dollar from P50.91 on Wednesday. Volume at the foreign exchange portal of

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Batangas police director asks for more men to secure lockdown areas

January 23, 2020

The director of Batangas Police Provincial Office on Thursday said they requested for additional forces to secure lockdown areas after they were ordered to leave areas within 14-kilometer danger zone from Taal Volcano. In a TV interview, Police Colonel Quilates

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Duterte OKs new “sin taxes,” VAT exemption on some medicines

January 23, 2020

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that further increases taxes on so-called “sin products,” such as alcohol and e-cigarettes, and expanding the coverage of value-added tax-exempt sales and importation of medicines. In a press briefing on Thursday,

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