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Ex-Speaker Belmonte named as special envoy to Japan

October 16, 2019

President Rodrigo Duterte has named former House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. as his special envoy to Japan. In the list of newly-appointed officials released by Malacanang on Wednesday, Belmonte is tasked to be the Special Envoy of the President to

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Gamboa orders cops not to play golf on weekdays

October 16, 2019

“No more golf on weekdays”. This is one of the marching orders of the Philippine National Police (PNP)  officer-in-charge, Police Lieutenant Colonel Archie Francisco Gamboa. In an interview with reporters, Gamboa said he got the authority last Tuesday that playing

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Cut movie’s ”offending” Chinese map scene: Locsin

October 16, 2019

Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday said a scene in THE animated film, Abominable, which showed China’s nine-dash line map in the South China Sea should be removed instead of banning it. “Of course they should cut out the

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Sinas assumes post as OIC of NCRPO

October 16, 2019

Police Brigadier General Debold Sinas on Wednesday officially assumed his post as officer-in-charge of the National Capital Regional Police Office (NCRPO). In his speech, Sinas said being chief of NCRPO is a “challenging assignment” adding Metro Manila is an extraordinarily

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Administrative staff confirming health condition

October 15, 2019

Koriyama City staff (right) confirms the health status of evacuees on the 14th, Takase Elementary School in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture Jiji Press

All 54 Chiba municipalities eligible for recovery aid

October 15, 2019

Chiba–The prefectural government of Chiba said Tuesday all 54 municipalities in the prefecture are eligible for subsidies to help residents hit hard by Typhoon Faxai, which landed in the Kanto eastern Japan region last month. It will provide rebuilding grants

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INTERVIEW: LDP open to debate on opposition constitution proposals

October 15, 2019

Tokyo–Liberal Democratic Party Election Strategy Committee Chairman Hakubun Shimomura has indicated that the Japanese ruling party is ready to discuss Constitution-linked topics taken up by opposition forces. “Opposition parties should bring up what they want in order to promote discussions”

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Stepfather given 13 years in Tokyo fatal abuse case

October 15, 2019

Tokyo–Tokyo District Court sentenced the stepfather of a girl to 13 years in prison on Tuesday over a high-profile abuse case in which the five-year-old daughter died in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward in 2018. Public prosecutors sought an 18-year prison term

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