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VOL. XXIII, NO. 46 LOS ANGELES / ORANGE COUNTY / INLAND EMPIRE
December 17 - 23, 2016
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DUTERTE TO ‘YELLOWS’:
REDS WILL KILL YOU IF YOU OUST ME
MANILA, Dec 14 (Mabuhay) – Communists are not only willing to die for him, they will also kill those who will remove him from office, President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday night. In a speech before the Filipino community in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Duterte reiterated that the “yellow” cannot accept defeat.
President Rodrigo Duterte sings ‘Ikaw’ in a duet with a Filipina performer during a meeting with the Filipino community in Cambodia at Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra Hotel on Tuesday, December 13, 2016. Duterte is in Cambodia for a two-day state visit. (See related story on page 5)
DND eyes Russian sniper rifles MANILA, Dec. 14 (PNA) – While the People’s Republic of China has expressed its willingness to provide the country’s military units with firearms with generous payment terms, Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said they will still look at sniper rifles being offered by Russia. This is based on the orders by President Rodrigo Duterte, he said. “The President told us to look into the sniper rifles being produced by Russia as these are good. Although we are still to see anything yet, they (Russians) will show
us some models for testing to (determine whether these are suitable for our needs),” Lorenzana said in Filipino. Earlier, DND undersecretary for finance, munition, materiel Raymund DV Elefante said the country is open to acquire weapons of all kinds from Russia but said these are dependent on the nation’s capabilities to handle these equipment. Capabilities refer to the funding and manpower capable of handling these weapons. “It depends. As long (as) we have capabilities (i.e funds and manpower) but this is still See RUSSIAN, page 13
Duterte: I join police ops in Davao to kill criminals MANILA, Dec 14 (Mabuhay) – When he was still mayor of Davao City, President Rodrigo Duterte led by example to the police and joined them in operations to “personally” kill criminals. In a speech delivered late Monday night in Malacañang during the Wallace Business Forum, Duterte denied that the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects were state-sponsored. “We do not, you know, we do not wrap people with plastic tape. We are not producing mummies in the Philippines for export. Those are indications of torture,” he said. “Why will I torture when we are going
to arrest you because you are committing a crime? There’s no need for us to torture or rather you just shoot him and fire a bullet in the head. Why go into this charade of wrapping people? You don’t indicate that there are tortures and forcing people to say something,” he added. Then, he added that only a third of the reported drug-related killings, which soared to around 2,000 since he became President on June 30, were a result of police operations. “But in Davao I used to do it personally. Just to show to the guys that, if I can do it why can’t you? And I go around in Davao with
ministration’s ruling party, Liberal Party, uses yellow as its campaign color. “Pero ‘yung mga Left, kailanman papatayin ka pa niyan ‘pag tanggalin mo ako. Kasi left ako. Anak lang ako ng mahirap. I’m the first Left-leaning president. But I am not under or I am not a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines [CPP],” he added. On Monday night, Duterte also claimed that the commuSee REDS, page 13
FROM FOE TO FRIEND:
Chinese envoy: Expect ‘big bang’ in China-PHL ties By Sammy F. Martin
MANILA, Dec. 13 (PNA) -- China- Philippine relations will be considered “explosive” starting mid 2017 as both nations work on strengthening their friendship and cooperation, Chinese Ambassador to Manila Zhao Jianhua on Monday night said. Jianhua, during a Christmas party he hosted for Philippine media at the Shangri-la Hotel in Makati City, said as a result of President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China, the Philippines will export more fruits to China and more Chinese tourists will visit the Philippines in 2017. He also said China will sponsor a high level forum in May and a summit in September of 2017, and President Duterte is expected to attend. “Five major emerging power get together in September next year in Xiamen . I think your President [Rodrigo R. Duterte] will be invited to attend the meeting because the Philippines will assume the rotating chairmanship of ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations],” the ambassador told the attendees. He said they have foreseen that “the Philippines will be becoming a more important country in the future.” Jianhua assured that Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the ASEAN meeting in November and there is a great possibility that they will sign a bilateral agreement. In between, he said, there will be an exchange of elected and appointed officials in government like members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and their counterparts. See BIG BANG, page 13
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