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On Monday, President Duterte, in his first public statement opposing the presence of American troops, said he wants US forces out of his country's south and blamed the United States for inflaming Muslim insurgencies in the region.
Duterte said he wanted only Philippine territorial waters, up to 12 nautical miles offshore, to be patrolled by Filipino forces, but not other offshore areas that are contested. ... Like other security pronouncements, Duterte did not provide details, but his rejection for joint patrols apparently goes against such an arrangement announced in April by the US and the Philippine defense chiefs.
Washington later said it had not received a formal request to remove US military personnel. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Duterte had a tendency to make "colorful comments" and drew a comparison with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Traffic app Waze names Cebu as ‘worst city to drive in’ | Inquirer News
A Philippine city was tagged as the “worst city to drive in” by Waze, a popular traffic and navigating app used by cab drivers and commuters.
Cebu City, the Philippines’ “Queen City of the South,” placed at the bottom spot among 186 cities included in Waze’s second annual Driver Satisfaction Index. “On the other end of the spectrum, Cebu, Philippines, ranked as least satisfying, or the worst place in the world to be a driver,” the app’s blog post read.
Aside from Cebu city, other bustling Philippine cities burdened with devastating traffic jams performed poorly in the survey: Pampanga’s Angeles City ranked 147th, while Metro Manila leaped to the 170th spot.
Apart from the declaration of a state of emergency that empowers President Duterte to call in the military to quell lawlessness, presidential legal adviser Salvador Panelo is toying with the idea of giving the Chief Executive expanded powers under a “constitutional dictatorship.” Such a dictatorship, Panelo explained, would give Duterte powers over both the executive and legislative branches to speed up reforms.
“What I am saying is, it’s constitutional. You revise the Constitution, give the powers to the President, (the) legislative and executive powers. So in a sense it’s like dictatorship because he has two powers but all of them are constitutional,” Panelo told ANC Thursday.