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Duterte to drug suspects: Reserve your coffins
MANILA, Aug 12 (Mabuhay) – President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his warning to drug suspects to change their lives or face death if they continue to trade in illegal drugs. Speaking to reporters in Davao City, the President said that in his 23 years as mayor, he has never been able to convince someone to change his ways by asking meekly. He then issued a warning to drug suspects who have not sur-
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rendered to authorities. “You should think it over. You should reserve your coffins and your burial plots now while it is cheap,” he said. Duterte earlier vowed that he will eliminate the drug menace in his six months in office. Meanwhile, Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa expressed readiness Friday to attend the Senate probe See RESERVE, page 12 Rescuers in action in Sta Cruz, Manila: Rescuers from the Bureau of Fire Protection and Philippine Red Cross (left photo) remove debris to retrieve a lady from a concrete wall that collapsed at the boundary of the Manila City Jail along Doroteo Jose corner Oroquieta Street in Santa Cruz, Manila on Saturday morning (Aug. 13, 2016). At right, rescuers administer medical oxygen on a man trapped in the collapsed wall.(PNA photo by Avito C.Dalan)
Marcos victims ask high court: Stop dictator’s hero’s burial By Christopher Lloyd T. Caliwan
Erection of last pillar for Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 2 extension to Antipolo nearing completion: The last pillar of the 3.9-kilometer elevated guideway or viaduct for the extension of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 2 from Santolan, Pasig City to Masinag in Antipolo City is nearing completion as shown in this photo taken on Aug. 14, 2016. the project is being undertaken by D.M. Consunji Inc. (DMCI). The current LRT Line 2 begins at Recto Ave. in Manila and ends at Santolan, Pasig City. (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)
Sec Villar: NAIA expressway to open within first 100 days of Duterte administration
A, Aug. 15 (PNA) – Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar is confident that the traffic situation at the domestic and international airport complex in Pasay City will change with the opening of phase 2 of the NAIA Expressway Project, which connects Macapagal Boulevard to NAIA Terminals 1 and 2. “We are in the process of doing safety checks. With the help of DOTC, we are confident that the public would soon be able to access a key phase of the NAIA Expressway Project within the first 100 days of President Rodrigo R. Duterte,” Villar said.
“Passenger traffic at NAIA has an average annual growth rate of 9.5%. The cost of congestion per day in Metro Manila is PHP2.4 billion. We are keen in ensuring that the chronic traffic congestion at the vicinity of the airport is solved almost immediately,” he added. To date, overall progress of civil works activities is about 79 percent with the Paranaque River alignment already 100 percent completed. The NAIA Expressway Project, which costs PHP17.9 billion, is a four lane, 7.75-kilometer elevated expressway and 2.22 kilometer See EXPRESSWAY, page 12
MANILA, Aug. 15 (PNA) – Human rights victims during Martial Law on Monday asked the Supreme Court to disallow the burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) in Taguig City. In a 30-page petition for Certiorari and Prohibition with Application for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on the government’s plan to confer honors to Marcos by allowing his burial at the national cemetery. The petitioners are composed of former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, Trinidad Herrera Repuno, National Artist Prof.
the US today make up the second largest Asian American population in this country. They are proud of their historic accomplishments, notably in the American labor movement and in the nation’s education and healthcare system. During World War II, 260,000 Filipino soldiers served with uncommon valor to protect and defend America’s interests. After 72 years, they have yet to be recognized by the U.S. for their service and sacrifice. Today, Filipinos continue to serve with honor in the U.S. military, faithful to their duty to protect this country. See NaFFAA, page 12
Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) Represented by Fr. Dionito Cabillas, Carmencita See STOP DICTATOR, page 12
Palace calls CPP’s extrajudicial killings accusation premature
MANILA, Aug. 15 (PNA) – Malacañang on Monday described as premature the accusation of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) that the government is involved in extrajudicial killings, prompting the rebels to withdraw its support to war against illegal drugs. ”Inhumane? E parang they are already concluding that there is being extrajudicial salvaging,” Chief Presidential Legal Counsel
NaFFAA reacts to Trump’s proposed Duterte warns terrorists: ‘If you can do it, I can do it ban on Filipino immigrants As a national organization committed to inclusion, diversity and the empowerment of Filipinos in the United States who have contributed significantly as immigrants to this country’s cultural, economic and political life, we are deeply troubled by comments made recently by GOP Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump. In a recent speech in Maine, the latest in a series of divisive anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim statements, Mr. Trump lumped the Philippines among “terrorist nations” from where people should be denied entry to the United States. The nearly 4 million Filipinos in
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MANILA, Aug. 15 (PNA) – President Rodrigo R. Duterte vowed on Monday to go tit for tat with terrorists as he assured that he would never allow the Philippines to be destroyed by terrorism. “Terrorists, like ISIS, have no political ideology, no concept at all. You maim people, you kill them, women who refuse to have sex with them, they simply burn them. We have seen a barbaric practice and even cutting throats of people in front of the world,” he said. “Hindi ko malaman how to meet See TERRORIST, page 12
Salvador Panelo said in a media interview. Last Sunday, the CPP released a statement withdrawing its support for the intensified drive against illegal drugs by the administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte. “Police officials have brazenly carried out summary killings against suspected drug peddlers and users. Hundreds have been killed while ‘resisting arrest’ or while under custody and deten-
tion, in police cars as well as in jails,” the communist group said in statement. ”That statement would be premature because there is not at this time, any investigation showing that there has been extrajudicial killings,” Panelo replied. He added: “As far as we are concerned, the killings are being made by drug pushers themselves, killing each other.” See EXTRAJUDICIAL, page 12
DAR to free farmers from landlord-oligarchs MANILA, Aug 12 (Mabuhay) – Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano announced on Friday that the department will exert efforts to free farmers from the grips of landlord-oligarchs. “These landlord-oligarchs use their power, influence, and connections to deprive farmer-tenants of the land that should have been distributed to them by virtue of land reform,” Mariano told reporters in a press briefing. Mariano cited as an example the 6,453-hectare Hacienda Luisita, owned by the Cojuanco-Aquino family of former President Benigno Aquino III. The Supreme Court has decided the distribution of the sugar estate, but farmers allegedly face unfair land distribution through “tambiolo” lottery. “Sisimulan na po ang pag-audit niyan ‘yung P1.3 billion na pinababalik ng SC sa original farm workers-beneficiaries,” the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) chief said. In a 2012 landmark ruling, the high court order the distribution of 4,115 hectares of Hacienda Luisita and P1.3 billion from the proSee FREE FARMERS, page 12