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by Omar Haj Kadour Agence France Presse RACHIDINE, Syria (AFP) — The evacuation of four besieged Syrian towns resumed Wednesday, with tight security in place for those leaving government-held areas after a weekend bombing against evacuees killed dozens including nearly 70 children. A large convoy of buses set out from the government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya in Syria’s Idlib province, carrying 3,000 people to the rebel-held transit point of Rashidin near Aleppo city, […]
(Eagle News Service) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday declined the University of the Philippines’ offer to confer upon him an honorary doctorate degree. In an interview in Tagbilaran, Bohol, Duterte said, “I simply declined.” The President said his decision was in line with his “personal and official policy” of not accepting such awards. “With due respect sa UP, I do not accept, even when I was mayor. Hindi ako tumatanggap,” he said. On Tuesday, […]
(Eagle News) – The Australia government will implement stricter visa requirements for skilled workers from overseas. According to Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull, they will remove the visa program for skilled workers in the restaurant, information and medical industries because of criticisms that it is affecting the employment of native Australians. Because of this, the Australian embassy has decided to also increase visa fees for foreign workers. Overseas workers are also required to be more […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — An enormous black worm that lives in the mud of the sea floor and survives on the remnants of noxious gases digested by bacteria has been unveiled by scientists for the first time. The slimy giant shipworm can grow up to 155 centimeters (five feet) in length, despite living a sedentary life in ocean sediment and apparently eating nothing more than the waste products of the micro-organisms that live in […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Health is now studying the possibility of providing additional security escorts and added compensation for those who would volunteer for the government’s “Doctors to the Barrios” program following the killing of another volunteer doctor in Cotabato City. Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said that the killing of Doctor Sajid “Jaja” Sinolinding and his security escort made them rethink that there should be additional safety that should be […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration said that the Syrian woman with alleged links to the international terror group ISIS, is still in the country. According to the Bureau of Immigration, the agency is still coordinating with the Syrian embassy regarding the deportation of Rahaf Zina who was earlier arrested together with her husband, Husayn al-Dhafiri, a Kuwaiti national. Immigration officers said that they are still waiting for tickets to deport the female Syrian […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe, chairperson of the Senate committee on public services, called for the formation of a National Transport Safety Board following the bus tragedy in Nueva Ecija on Tuesday, April 18. The tragedy resulted in the death of more than 30 people. The senator filed Senate Bill No. 162 or the NTSB Act that, if passed, will allow for the formation of a board tasked to investigate accidents involving […]
(Eagle News) — United States President Donald Trump is set to visit the Philippines in November. The announcement was made by Ambassador Marciano Paynor Jr., Director-General for Operations of the ASEAN 2017 National Organizing Council on Wednesday, April 18. “As of now, President Trump, for instance, when President Duterte called him up to congratulate him, had already indicated that he is coming in November. At least verbally, he said he is coming,” Paynor said. The […]
(Eagle News) — Net satisfaction with the administration’s campaign against illegal drugs remains high, with 70 percent saying the government was “serious” about solving the problem of extra-judicial killings in the country. According to results from the latest Social Weather Stations survey, 78 percent were satisfied with the drug war, which only recently resumed following the kidnap-slay of Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo reportedly by rogue policemen who used the war as an excuse to commit the crime. […]
(Agence France Presse) — The death toll from a bus that plunged into a ravine in Nueva Ecija rose to 31 with signs that overloading contributed to the crash, a police official said Wednesday. The accident, which saw the bus come off a winding road to fall 24 meters (80 feet) into a ravine in the upland province on Tuesday, also left 46 injured with four still in a critical condition, said Senior […]
By Jodi Bustos Eagle News Service QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News)– Senator Chiz Escudero on Wednesday denied that he was behind the proposal to confer a University of the Philippines honorary doctorate to President Rodrigo Duterte, but admitted that he “did not object when it was proposed.” “I did not move but I did not object when it was proposed given that it is a UP tradition that Philippine heads of state (including the Chief Justice […]
MUNTINLUPA CITY, Metro Manila (Eagle News) – Umabot sa third alarm ang sunog na naganap sa Highway Homes Alabang malapit sa Expressway Alabang Exit nitong Miyerkules, April 19, bandang alas-nueve ng umaga (9:00 AM). Ayon sa ilang residente, sa gasera daw nagsimula ang nasabing sunog. Mabilis itong kumalat kaya ang tower line o transmission line na malapit sa lugar ay sumabog at tumaob. Ayon sa National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, pinahina ng sunog ang pundasyon ng Tower […]
