Duterte keeps lead in survey, Poe 2nd

04/20/2016

Presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has cemented his hold on the front-runner position in the May presidential race, according to the results of the latest ABS-CBN survey conducted by Pulse Asia. Duterte got 32 percent…

Davao City mayor doubts daughter’s rape claim, calls her ‘drama queen’

04/20/2016

ILOILO CITY — Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte does not believe that his daughter, Sara, a former Davao City mayor herself, was raped as she earlier claimed. “Hindi ma rape ‘yan si Inday,  nagdadala ng baril yan…

Australian Embassy: Rape should never be joked about

04/19/2016

THE Australian Embassy in the Philippines has issued a brief statement following a recent controversial remark of leading presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte about the rape of an Australian missionary in a 1989 hostage crisis,…

Japanese senior caught with minor inside motel

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/10/2016

A 69-year-old Japanese national was caught with a minor inside his motel room by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) at Gen. Maxilom Avenue at 3:30 p.m. last Wednesday. The Japanese identified as Yoshiyo Morino…

NBI arrests Japanese tourist inside motel room

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/10/2016

The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI 7) arrested a 69-year-old Japanese tourist who’s accused of trafficking and raping a minor. Yoshiyo Morino was with a 15-year-old girl and clad in only his boxer shorts…

Girl, 15, raped, set on fire outside New Delhi

03/09/2016

A 15-year-old girl was fighting for her life in a New Delhi hospital Tuesday after being raped and set on fire on the rooftop terrace of her family’s home in a village outside the city, police said.…

Argao in shock over 15-year-old girl’s killing

Apple Ta-as, Jhunnex Napallacan, Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/08/2016

The municipality of Argao in southern Cebu is in a state of shock over the killing of 15-year-old student Jezreel Tahanlangit Higida. “We’re just so sad. It’s so shocking. It would have been nice for Argao to…

TEENER KILLED

Apple Ta-as, Jhunnex Napallacan 03/07/2016

It had been Jezreel Tahanlangit Higida’s usual routine to wake up before 6 a.m. so she could walk three kilometers from her home to the Bulasa National High School in Barangay Bulasa, Argao town in southern Cebu.…

Date-rape drugs

Dr. Philip S. Chua 02/07/2016

LAST Wednesday, the Pennsylvania judge on the Bill Cosby sexual assault charges refused to throw out the case against the famous Afro-American comedian, filed by a woman and alleged by more than a dozen others. The allegation…

Girl, pa wounded in rape attempt

Apple Ta-as 12/20/2015

A 16-year-old girl and her father were injured after a relative attempted to rape the girl in barangay Langtad, Argao town, south Cebu yesterday dawn. Police said Ana (not her real name) was sleeping inside their house…

Habal-habal driver linked to rape of woman left in Naga

Apple Ta-as 11/17/2015

THE body of a 22-year-old woman, believed to have been raped, was found in a grassy area in  Naga City, southern Cebu Sunday morning. Police later arrested Eliazar Adjaman, 22, a motorcycle-for-hire driver, after witnesses pointed to…

Police monitor spread of ‘date rape drug’

Apple Ta-as, Chito O. Aragon 10/14/2015

THE intelligence branch of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) is set to meet with the management of  establishments of  Mango Square and nearby  areas following the reported gang rape of a  21-year-old woman  who was hanging…

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