Teodoro: Government studying hosting of Afghan refugees

by alexis romero Philstar.com

mANILA — the U.s government’s request for the Philippines to temporarily host 50,000 former Afghan employees and their families has not reached President marcos yet and is still being studied by the Department of Justice (DoJ), the defense department said on monday, June 26. Defense secretary Gilbert teodoro said while the government would study all the implications of the request, it has to determine first whether it is allowed under the law, particularly the Immigration

Act. “this issue has not reached him (marcos) yet because we are still studying it. We are still waiting for the opinion of the DoJ on whether it is legal because if it is not allowed under the law of the republic, what else will we talk about?” teodoro told reporters after the celebration of the 160th anniversary of the Philippine forestry service in Quezon City. he said no specific timeframe has been set for the DoJ to finish its opinion on the matter.

“As soon as possible, but there is a need to scrutinize all issues,” the defense chief said in

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Poll: Most Filipinos satisfied with Marcos administration

by Red MendozA ManilaTimes.net

more than seven out of 10 filipinos are satisfied with the performance of the administration of ferdinand marcos Jr., a survey commissioned by oCtA research showed.

In its Tugon ng Masa first quarter survey conducted from march 24 to 28, 72 percent of filipinos said they were satisfied, while 8 percent said they were not satisfied with the performance of marcos.

the 72 percent is a “nominal decrease” from the previous oCtA survey last october, where the administration got a 76 percent satisfaction rating. marcos’ satisfaction rating was highest in the Visayas at 83 percent, followed by Balanced Luzon at 77 percent and mindanao at 67 percent.

the National Capital region (NCr or metro manila) reported the lowest satisfaction rating at 51 percent. It was also the region where the highest percentage of adult filipinos were dissatisfied with the current administration at 13 percent. the NCr too was the region with the highest percentage of those who said they were ambivalent about the performance of the administration at 35 percent.

Mayon continues ‘quiet’ eruption

by Arlie O. CAlAlO ManilaTimes.net

mAYoN Volcano in Albay province continues to discharge lava and spew rocks “in a gentle and quiet manner,” but experts have not ruled out an explosive eruption in the coming weeks or days.

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and seismology (Phivolcs) Director teresito

“toto” Bacolcol told The Manila Times that the parameters recorded by the mayon Volcano Network (mVN) have been changing every day. sometimes, the parameters like the sulfur dioxide (so2) gas emission, volcanic tremors and rockfall events would increase, then the next day they would decrease, so we can say that they are still lowrate parameters,” Bacolcol said monday, June 26. the recorded low-level parameters reflect what is happening on the vent, which is an effusive eruption,” the Phivolcs chief added.

Phivolcs explained that an effusive eruption is dominated by the outpouring, fountaining or ejection of fluid lava, and the magma has a low viscosity or is runny, wherein gas can escape easily.

“effusive eruption involves the gentle release of lava on the edifice of the volcano,” it said.

In the past 24 hours, Phivolcs said the lava slowly oozing out of the volcano’s crater reached 1.3 kilometers and 1.2 kilometers along the mi-isi gully in Daraga town and the