News Update
As of September 21, 2017 (Thursday)
1. Manila Bulletin
House restores budget of CHR, two other agencies
House Appropriations Committee Chairman and Davao City Rep. Karlo Nograles (1st district) said his panel has restored the proposed budgets of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Energy Regulatory Commission, and the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) after the heads of the three agencies met with Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.
With this development, the restoration of the budget of the CHR, the ERC and the NCIP would already be incorporated in the final version of the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for third and final reading by the HOR in plenary. The initial proposed budget of the CHR is P623.38 million; the ERC – P365 million; and NCIP – P1.132 billion.
http://news.mb.com.ph/2017/09/21/house-restores-budget-of-chr-two-other-agencies/
2. Philippine Star
Big quake's death toll rises to 230 in Mexico
Mexican federal authorities say the death toll from the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook central Mexico has been raised to 230, after the number of confirmed dead in Mexico City rose to 100. The nation's capital bore the brunt of the deaths and damage in Tuesday's quake, but it has also been the scene of dramatic rescues.
http://www.philstar.com/world/2017/09/21/1741296/big-quakes-death-toll-rises-230-mexico
3. Daily Inquirer
In stark UN speech, Trump threatens to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea
President Donald Trump has vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if the US is forced to defend itself or its allies against the renegade nation’s nuclear weapons program, making his case in a combative debut speech to the UN that laid out a stark, good-vs-evil view of a globe riven by chaos and turmoil.
“Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime,” Trump said, mocking the North Korean leader even as he sketched out potentially cataclysmic consequences. The president himself decided to work the nickname into his speech just hours before he took the dais, according to aides. North Korea’s ambassador and another top diplomat left the General Assembly chamber before he spoke to boycott his speech, leaving behind two empty chairs.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/932083/north-korean-missile-crisis-donald-trump-threatens-north-korean 4. Manila Times
House panel junks raps vs Bautista
The justice committee of the House of Representatives dismissed on Wednesday the impeachment complaint filed against Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Juan Andres Bautista on a technicality, as it was
“not sufficient in form and substance.”
Twenty-six members of the justice committee voted against the complaint filed by former representative Jacinto Paras of Negros Oriental and lawyer Ferdinand Topacio on behalf of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), while only two voted for it.
http://www.manilatimes.net/house-panel-junks-raps-vs-bautista/351845/
