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Duterte Names 13 Gov't Officials Under Investigation for Graft & Corruption Warriors lose game 4 at home. Series tied. WEEKLY ISSUE 70 CITIES IN 11 STATES ONLINE SPORTS NEWS | A5 Vol. IX Issue 476 1028 Mission Street, 2/F, San Francisco, CA 94103 Email: [email protected] Tel. (415) 593-5955 or (650) 278-0692 May 24 - 30, 2018 Duterte names 13 gov’t officials under investigation for graft & corruption By Macon Araneta | FilAm Star Correspondent President Rodrigo Duterte revealed anew a list of 13 government officials who are under investigation for graft and corruption. He named some of them, including two who were asked by the President to resign or be fired for corruption. The President said the list, provided by the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission, headed by Dante Jimenez, will be forwarded to the Office of the Ombudsman. “I want the Ombudsman so that there will be no complaints. They are too many,” he said. Included in the list are Department of Jus- tice Assistant Sec. Moslemen Macarambon Sr. and Department of Public Works and Highways Assistant Sec. Tingagun Umpa, lawyer Am- brosi Basman, lawyer Rohani Basman, Amisa Lumodtod, Amelkier Macabando (ex-mayor of Marawi City), lawyer Samina Sambaco Maca- bando Usman (DoJ prosecutor), OIC Pasay City Prosecutor and lawyer Benjamin Lanto, Inquest Prosecutor Clemente Villanueva, Assistant Prosecutor Florencio Dela Cruz, NAIA District Collector Ramon Anquilan, NAIA Intelligence and Investigation Division Director Adzhar Al- bani, and Customs Operations officer Lomontod Macabanto. “They are all suspended, pending an inves- tigation,” Duterte said. (L-R) Presidential Anti-corruption Commission head Dante Jimenez and Justice Sec. Menardo Guevarra (Photos: www.sonshineradio.com / www.canadianinquirer.net) TO PAGE A7 Saudi banning of overseas workers, Kuwaiti tax on foreigners Pinoy nurses most persistent Duterte won’t confront ‘creeping sending money put remittances at record low job seekers in U.S. invasion by China;’ does not want By William Casis massacre of Pinoy troops By Lara Climaco | FilAm Star Correspondent FilAm Star Correspondent By Daniel Llanto FilAm Star Correspondent Remittances dropped by 9.9 percent in March this year, causing a growth slowdown in Among foreign-educated nurses, ACTS-OFW the cumulative first quarter tally to 1.3 percent Rep. Aniceto ‘John’ Bertiz said this year from 8.1 percent growth last year. The Filipinos are still the most persistent job current growth level is a record low. seekers in the United States. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) He divulged that 7,791 Filipino nurses took released the latest numbers last week. It said per- the U.S. licensure examination for the first time sonal remittances from overseas Filipino workers in 2017, hoping to practice their profession in (OFWs) reached $7.8 billion from January to America. March 2018, of which cash remittances or money He said the figure is up 23 percent versus coursed through banks accounted for $7 billion. the 6,322 Philippine-educated nurses that took For the month of March, cash remittances America’s eligibility test, or the NCLEX, for the (L-R) Sen. Franklin Drilon and National Security Ad- added up to $2.4 billion this year, $255 million viser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. short of last year’s figure as both land-based and (Photos: www.notey.com / www. oppositeofapathy. sea-based workers transacted fewer transfers. wordpress.com) The biggest declines in money transfers occurred As lawmakers urged President Duterte in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Labor Sec. Silvestre Bello III to immediately confront China regarding the Qatar and the United States. The U.S. numbers (Photo: www.notey.com) deployment of heavy bombers in the Spratly, the TO PAGE A7 President stressed anew that trouble would ensue if he did so and the Philippines does not have the DFA continues to monitor volcano eruption in Hawaii capability to declare war on China. This time Duterte omitted from his usual The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) land, and of this number, about 500 live north of sufferance of China’s occupation of most of the last May 19 said it is monitoring the situation the affected area. South China Sea that Chinese President Xi Jin- around restive Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii after On May 15, the United States Geological ping assured him that he would not allow Duterte experts warned it is gearing for a more violent Survey issued a red alert to warn against what to be ousted in a coup as a sort of prize for the eruption. could be an imminent major eruption of Kilauea. latter’s friendly attitude towards China. In a statement, the DFA said the Philippine “The Philippine Consulate General is in Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon de- Consulate General in Honolulu remains in touch touch with representatives of Hawaii County and scribed China’s deployment of long-range bomb- with members of the Filipino Community in the is monitoring the situation there,” Consul Gen- ers in the Spratly move as “the creeping invasion ACTS-OFW Rep. Aniceto Bertiz island of Hawaii and has urged them to follow eral Joselito Jimeno said, adding that no Filipino of Philippine territory in the South China Sea by (Photo: www.conceptnewscentral.com) instructions from authorities. has been reported to have been affected by the China.” The Consulate said some 15,000 Filipinos eruption. “If we don’t work on this, maybe the time live in Hawaii Island, also known as the Big Is- TO PAGE A7 TO PAGE A7 TO PAGE A7 Russia Collusion probe TFC at the Movies INDEX STEALING FREE Tourism COO resigns to end Sept. 1 releases “KASAL” worldwide Business & Tech News ................................. A8 NEWSPAPER IS STILL A CRIME ! Community Awareness ................................. 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Globe quarter, both Globe and PLDT latest school shooting in the Fe is located. people who were wounded in and Communications Technolo- revealed that the CA ruled in reported incurring lower inter- United States which killed 10 Foreign Affairs Sec. Alan the school shooting. gy (DICT) recently directing the its favor two years later but the connection charges. students and injured more than Peter Cayetano, who is cur- “Our thoughts and prayers National Telecommunications NTC elevated the case to the For Globe, the cost de- 10 others in Santa Fe, Texas, rently in Honolulu, Hawaii are with the families of the Commission (NTC) to minimize Supreme Court (SC) in March clined by 12 percent from PHP said Philippine Consul General on an official visit, expressed victims,” he added. this cost, in hopes of lowering last year. The telco regulator 2.1 billion in the first quarter to Los Angeles Adelio Angelito the country’s sympathies to On the evening May 18 consumer charges. had also been joined by Bayan of 2017 to PHP 1.8 billion from Cruz. the American families and the (Manila time), 17-year-old “The DICT hereby directs Muna in seeking to compel January to March this year. It In a statement, Cruz said United States. gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis, NTC to formulate concrete Globe to comply with the NTC said the downtrend was “driven that as soon as the incident was “We join the American barged into his high school measures that will ensure that order but their motions for re- by the drop in interconnection reported, his office coordinated people in grieving over the loss classroom and started shoot- interconnection rates for both consideration were both denied rate to PHP 2.50, coupled with with members of the Filipino of so many young innocent lives ing his fellow students with mobile voice and short mes- by the CA so Bayan Muna has lower inter-network traffic us- community there to determine in the school tragedy in Sante a shotgun and a .38 revolver sage services are reduced to the also separately filed a petition ages of domestic promo offers, if there was any casualty among Fe, Texas,” Cayetano said. smuggled under his coat. minimum taking into consid- before the SC. outbound regular streams and the 1,994 Filipino members in He then offered prayers for eration the best interest of the “The CA said that the NTC outbound roaming.” ordinary Filipino consumer,” DICT Acting Sec. Eliseo Rio Jr. said in an order issued May Comelec chief Abas pledges to inhibit 11. Telecom industry regulator NTC is an attached agency of himself from BBL plebiscite the DICT. The DICT order noted that Commission on Elections mobile voice and SMS rates in (Comelec) chair Sheriff Abas the Philippines were perceived on Wednesday vowed to inhibit to be among the highest in Asia himself should there be a plebi- and there is a need to make scite for ratification of proposed both services more afford- Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL). able for the ordinary Filipino If Congress would pass the consumer. Mobile calls are proposed measure that would charged PHP 6.70 per minute create the Bangsamoro region, while the rate for SMS is PHP the Comelec would conduct a 0.89.
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