News Evening Round up
Sep 28, 2019 • 3 min Read
Pushed in US Senate: ‘No entry’ for De Lima jailers | INQUIRER – US Senate committee deliberating on a budget bill has approved an amendment that would deny US entry to any Philippine official involved in the “wrongful imprisonment” of Sen. Leila de Lima. Malacañang was quick to denounce the measure as an intrusion into Philippine sovereignty.
WHO: Kids need full polio vaccination | PHILIPPINE STAR – Up to 60 percent of the vaccinated Filipino children are still unprotected and may acquire the polio type 2 virus that has re-emerged in the country, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In an interview Thursday night with “The Chiefs” on Cignal TV’s One News, WHO country representative Rabindra Abeyasinghe said only 40 percent of vaccinated children were injected with vaccine containing the component against type 2 poliovirus.
No need to reclaim Scarborough – China | MANILA BULLETIN – China does not need to reclaim the Scarborough Shoal, the top Chinese diplomat in the Philippines said Thursday night. Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua was reacting to the statement earlier issued by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio that China may reclaim the disputed shoal, also known as Panatag Shoal and Bajo de Masinloc, during the last three years of President Duterte’s term.
‘Insulting’ De Lima demand | DAILY TRIBUNE – The Palace considers such undertaking as a brazen attempt to intrude into our country’s domestic legal processes. Key government officials called out the United States Senate yesterday for adopting an amendment to the 2020 appropriation bill that will prohibit the entry of any official of the Philippine government who backed what it called the “politically motivated” incarceration of Senator Leila de Lima.
Duterte offers P2M for info on ‘ninjas’ | MANILA TIMES – Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go on Friday said President Rodrigo Duterte was willing to offer a reward to those who would give information about “ninja cops”. Go said Filpinos were entitled to know the truth about ninja (rogue) police officers and men who recycle crystal meth, or shabu, and other illegal drugs they seize in legitimate police operations.
De Lima’s jailers barred from US | MANILA STANDARD – Malacañang on Friday blasted the US Senate panel for approving a measure to ban from entry into the United States all officials involved in Senator Leila de Lima’s detention, calling it an intrusion into the country’s internal affairs and saying it treats the Philippines as an inferior state. The Palace also asked the US to mind its own business, “as each nation has enough problems that its government should focus on.”
Tricycle driver nabbed for illegal possession of firearm | SUN STAR CEBU – A 31-YEAR-OLD tricycle driver was arrested for illegal possession of firearms in Barangay Poblacion, Pinamungajan, Cebu, Saturday morning, September 28, 2019. The Pinamungajan police nabbed a certain Rigie Pacunla, a resident of Sitio Sambagon, Barangay Busay, Pinamungajan, Cebu after a concerned citizen informed them at around 12:45 a.m. that Pacunla allegedly brandished a .357 caliber revolver in a bus terminal in Pinamungajan.
‘Market income to drop’ without Chinese deals | SUN STAR CAGAYAN DE ORO – CAGAYAN de Oro City Councilor Ian Mark Nacaya on Thursday, September 26, said he supports the calls to pull out Chinese firms renting the markets but called for an in-depth study as this would mean lower income for the city government. Nacaya was reacting to the special report of City Councilor Edgar Cabanlas who wanted market spaces be given to the vendors, and not to foreign companies.
