October, 2017
Trillanes to Koko: Oust Dick, or else . . .
October 4, 2017 · By By: Christine O. Avendaño - @inquirerdotnet for newsinfo.inquirer.net
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday threatened to work very hard for the ouster of Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III if the latter would keep Sen. Richard Gordon as chair of the powerful Senate blue ribbon committee. Trillanes said he wanted a change in the Senate leadership because Gordon’s handling of the blue ribbon […]
Read More...UN rights council urged to step in to end ‘unlawful killings’ in PH
October 4, 2017 · By Jhoanna Ballaran, Nestor Corrales - @inquirerdotnet for globalnation.inquirer.net
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) should intervene in the Philippines’ bloody campaign against illegal drugs and do what it takes to end the violence, a human rights group said as 39 states expressed serious concern over the increasing number of drug-related deaths in the country. New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged […]
Read More...Peasant leader gunned down in Compostela Valley
October 3, 2017 · By Frinston Lim - @inquirerdotnet for newsinfo.inquirer.net
DAVAO CITY—A labor and peasant leader was shot dead by suspected military agents in Maragusan town, Compostela Valley on Thursday, raising to 49 the number of victims of political killings in Southern Mindanao during the Duterte administration, rights groups on Friday said. Reneboy Magayano, 50, chair of Maragusan Workers’ Association was shot dead by alleged […]
Read More...3 in 5 Filipinos think drug suspects who surrendered still end up dead
October 3, 2017 · By Jhoanna Ballaran - Reporter / @JhoannaBINQ for newsinfo.inquirer.net
As more than half of Filipinos do not buy police’s ‘nanlaban’ tales, another Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed that three out of five Filipinos believe that drug suspects who already surrendered to authorities still end up dead under the Duterte administration’s campaign against illegal drugs. In its Second Quarter 2017 survey, SWS said that […]
Read More...Duterte: 9,000 cops into drugs
October 3, 2017 · By Leila B. Salaverria - Reporter for newsinfo.inquirer.net
President Duterte on Thursday said some 9,000 policemen in the country were “into drugs” as he explained the difficulty of kicking the illegal drug problem in the country. Mr. Duterte made the statement in Balangiga, Eastern Samar. He did not elaborate but he earlier said some law enforcers were working with drug lords and even […]
Read More...Alarm as study reveals world’s tropical forests are huge carbon emission source
October 3, 2017 · By Jonathan Watts for www.theguardian.com
Forests globally are so degraded that instead of absorbing emissions they now release more carbon annually than all the traffic in the US, say researchers The world’s tropical forests are so degraded they have become a source rather than a sink of carbon emissions, according to a new study that highlights the urgent need to […]
Read More...Murder complaints filed vs Manila cops over EJKs
October 2, 2017 · By Lian Buan for www.rappler.com
Complaints of planting of evidence, gross misconduct, grave abuse of authority, gross oppression, and conduct unbecoming of a public officer are also filed against the police officers MANILA, Philippines – Parents of two men who were killed during police operations filed murder complaints before the Office of the Ombudsman on Thursday, September 28, against Manila […]
Read More...Pampanga court dismisses sex trafficking case vs Japanese tourist
October 2, 2017 · By Jun A. Malig for www.rappler.com
The judge says the court had no other recourse but to exonerate Michihiro Suzumura, as the information dated July 28 by Assistant City Prosecutor Mark Oliver Sison fails to establish the existence of probable cause against Suzumura in violating Republic Act 9208 ANGELES CITY, Philippines – The regional trial court here dismissed 5 cases filed […]
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