Military again resorts to alibi in the Cadapan-Empeno kidnapping case hearing

The defense failed to present its witness for the 5th time in yesterday’s hearing at Malolos Regional Trial Court in Bulacan. Atty. Jose Cruz, lawyer of M. Sgt. Edgardo Osorio, did not show up “because of an emergency matter in the family.”

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Gov’t moves for earlier completion of Cotabato airport expansion project

Government officials have assured business leaders here that flight operations at Cotabato (Awang) Airport willl resume normal operations in August this year, with the expected completion of runway and taxiway expansion project earlier than the original target.

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"Tacloban City is no more. God must have been somewhere else." - Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. (screen grab from Davao City Information Office YouTube account)

Duterte: I will rebel vs my own gov’t

"Assuming I will be president and things are status quo; there will still be Congress and Civil Service, the Human Rights (Commission) and Ombudsman. Now with this Congress, you have to beg and make horse-deals with them. You'll be wasting your money paying me for six years where I can not make any meaningful change. I would just curse my way for six years," Duterte said.

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Comments on the Philippine case before ITLOS and Arbitral Tribunal

The national democratic movement must stand firm for national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and should not give a chance be misrepresented as pro-China on the issue at hand... It should assert that the islands in question belong to the Filipino people in accordance with the UNCLOS.

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