PCC blocks merger deal between URC, Don Pedro-RHI sugar millers
February 14, 2019
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) has blocked the merger between the two sugar millers in southern Luzon: Universal Robina Corp. (URC), and Central Azucarera Don Pedro Inc. (CADPI) and Roxas Holdings Inc. (RHI). In a decision prohibiting the merger issued
Duterte nothing to do with Ressa’s arrest, Palace says
February 14, 2019
Malacanang has distanced itself from the arrest of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa over the cyberlibel charge filed against her by a private individual. In a radio interview on Thursday, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said it was businessman Wilfredo Keng, who
Koko: ‘justice served’ in Comelec dismissal of DQ cases
February 14, 2019
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III welcomed the Commission on Election (Comelec) decision declaring him eligible to run for senator in the 2019 national elections, saying that “justice was served” when the poll body’s First Division dismissed two petitions for disqualification
Gov’t, foreign partners speed up work on P67.9b Marawi rehab, reconstruction
February 14, 2019
Funding from local and foreign sources have enabled the Duterte administration to fast track the extensive planning and preparations required for the P67.99-billion reconstruction and rehabilitation program for Marawi, a year after government troops liberated this southern Philippine city from Islamic State-inspired militants. Of the amount
Comelec says poll-related violence getting ”bad”
February 14, 2019
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) expressed alarm over election-related violence ahead of the May 13 national and local polls. In a media forum Thursday, Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said violence in different parts of the country has not stopped. .
Alleged NPA arrested in Butuan City
February 14, 2019
Government forces arrested an alleged member of New People’s Army (NPA) in Butuan City on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Lt. Col. Ezra Balagtey, spokesman of the Eastern Mindanao Command, said Thursday arrested was Emeliano Bustillo Legayna. Balagtey said Legayna is
Ressa, Rappler boss, freed on bail by Manila court
February 14, 2019
Maria Ressa, chief executive officer and founder of online news website Rappler, was freed on bail after before a Manila court Thursday after she was detained at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) overnight for cyberlibel. Ressa, who was arrested
Escovilla receives certificate of Conferment of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette
February 14, 2019
On February 10, retired Judge Antonina Oshita Escovilla received from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Taro Kono, the certificate of Conferment of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette and the decoration from Ambassador Koji
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