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Bounty set for top drug dealers
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DUTERTE FILLS UP MORE TOP POSTS
Digong appoints heads of DILG, DND, BIR, Customs By John Paolo Bencito
DAVAO CITY—More friends and province mates joined the incoming Cabinet of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte. In a press conference Tuesday night, Duterte confirmed that the former South Cotabato governor and PDP-Laban chairman Ismael
Sueno, his close friend, would head the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), which has the control over all local police.
Maj. Gen. Delfin Lorenzana, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1973, and former special presidential representative of the Office of Philippine Veterans Affairs in the United States will head the Department of National Defense (DND). Lorenzana was a high school classmate of Duterte patron and friend Pastor Apollo Quiboloy,
and was the 601st brigade commander in Malungon, Sarangani in 2000. Former Maj. Gen. Isidro Lapena, the former Philippine National Police director for operations will head the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency while former Army 5th Infantry Division head Brig. Gen. Ricardo Jalad will lead the National Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Council (NDRRMC). Catalino Cuy, the former Davao City police chief who later became the chief of the Special Action Force before the Mamasapano will be tapped to be undersecretary for police concerns under the DILG, and former Dangerous Drugs Board will be the head of the Bureau of InNext page ternal Revenue.
Davao Cabinet. President-elect Rodrigo Duterte meets the members of his new Cabinet, whom he presented during a press conference in Davao City on Tuesday night.
Duterte: Corruption also media problem
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China’s Xi hopes for better ties with Rody By Vito Barcelo CHINESE President Xi Jinping is hopeful that rocky relations between China and the Philippines—strained by a territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea—will improve during the administration of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte. “The friendly, stable and healthy
development of Sino-Philippine relations accords with the basic interest of both countries and both peoples,” Xi said in a statement released after Congress proclaimed Duterte president on Monday. “(I) hope both sides can work hard to push Sino-Philippine relations back onto a healthy development track.”
Incoming Foreign Affairs secretary Perfecto Yasay said bilateral talks could help untangle the territorial dispute between the two countries. “The Duterte administration is bent on dealing with China through peaceful dialogue,” he said. “There’s no other way but to go bilateral. “We have been pursuing this. I don’t see why we Next page should stop.”