INQToday: Magnitude 4.6 earthquake jolts Quezon town
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Magnitude 4.6 earthquake jolts Quezon town
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake jolted General Nakar Quezon on Tuesday afternoon, May 27.
The China Coast Guard (CCG) on Tuesday issued a radio challenge to a Philippine civilian ship and Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessels en route to Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea.
“According to China’s domestic law and international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, China has indisputed sovereignty over islands in the South China Sea and adjacent waters. The so-called South China Sea arbitration is illegal. China neither accepts nor recognizes this,” the CCG said.
The number of motorists flagged for violating traffic rules on the first day of the No Contact Apprehension Policy (NCAP) reimplementation on Monday was “relatively low” compared to the previous week, when the policy was suspended, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said Tuesday.
MMDA Traffic Enforcement Group Director Atty. Victor Nuñez said that throughout the entire day up to midnight, “we recorded 1,112” violators, noting that this is more than 50 percent lower than last week’s figures.
Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Rommel Marbil said he does not know where reports originated claiming International Criminal Court (ICC) investigators were pressuring retired officers to implicate former President Rodrigo Duterte.
Former PNP Chief and Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa made the claim in a press statement Friday that the ICC had an “ongoing mission” at a Pasay City hotel to threaten ex-cops into signing an affidavit implicating him and Duterte in the latter’s brutal war on drugs.
