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(AFP) Hong Kong shut down Tuesday as Typhoon Nida brought violent winds and torrential rain, with hundreds of flights cancelled and the stock market, schools and businesses closed, as the storm headed across southern China. Videographic explaining how hurricanes – also known as cyclones or typhoons – form. Marian Henbest Stéphane Koguc / AFP Videographics / AFP
Using homemade tattooing equipment, inmates of six Mexican prisons take part in a rehabilitation project called Prison Art, which pays them to draw designs for purses that sell for $400 at high-end stores in Mexico City and other towns. https://youtu.be/CMJQjJFG-ZE
Visitors flood into New York Botanical Garden to see a blooming “corpse flower”, a rare, gigantic plant famous for its stench. The last bloom occurred in the city in 1939, the phenomenon being so rare that witnessing it is “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”, according to botanist.
“There are no second takes,” is what Hapi, a frustrated film director, always hears from his father Mang Julian, a retired videographer. Together with his best friends, Caloy and Onyok, he searches for potential producers who will finance his movie script. Out of options, they borrow money from a known loan shark, Alfajor, only to be stolen by the mischievous Oblax.Struggling to fulfill his dreams, looking for ways to pay his debt, and with a […]
Eagle News (July 27) — Our EBC News Correspondent in Southwest CA, Bureau, Valerie Gonzales was able to get a video greetings from Senator Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao. https://youtu.be/6xYLadEdrWc
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III sworn in as the Senate President of the 17th Congress on Monday morning, July 25.
Inspired by the Kevin Costner “Field of Dreams” movie, a baseball program is giving children from a slum in one of the Philippines’ biggest garbage dumps a chance to rise out of poverty. https://youtu.be/MAT6kgoF8fs
CIUDAD DE VICTORIA, Bocaue, Bulacan (Eagle News) — 678 ministerial students of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) school for ministers have successfully completed their bachelor’s degree. The commencement exercises was held at the Philippine Arena in Ciudad De Victoria, Bocaue, Bulacan. It began with a special worship service led by INC Executive Minister, Brother Eduardo V. Manalo. Also conferred with the degree of Bachelor of Evangelical Ministry are the 1,131 ministers who finished their informal […]
Eagle News — Chinese state councilor Yang Jiechi said that the South China Sea arbitration will not “in the slightest way” shake china’s resolve to pursue the path of peaceful development. He said, china adheres to negotiation and consultation as a means for addressing relevant territorial and maritime delimitation issues, and resolutely safeguards peace and stability in the region. The South China Sea, important to the Chinese people since ancient times, is our heritage to […]
https://youtu.be/1x2ctYFy5GA President Francois Hollande says the truck which ploughed into a crowd in the French Riviera resort of Nice, killing more than 80 people, was a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. (Courtesy AFP TV)
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The Pokémon Go craze has sent young New Yorkers into the streets, hunting imaginary creatures on their mobile phones, despite safety warnings from the police. Those who grew up playing the original Nintendo game “love the nostalgia”.
(Eagle News) — A Filipino independent movie produced by the Iglesia Ni Cristo won the much-coveted “Best Film” award, as well as the “best cinematography in a foreign language film” in the recently concluded 2016 Madrid International Film Festival. “Walang Take Two” (No Second Take), the first film produced by the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s INCinema productions, bested other top films from all over the world during the awarding ceremonies on Saturday night July 9. The film […]
