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QUEZON City, Philippines – Congress spent almost P1 billion (or P929.4 million to be exact) for consultancy services last year. This was based on data submitted by Congress to the Commission on Audit. At least 3,150 consultants were hired by Congress in 2015. According to COA, the expenses of Congress for consultancy services last year were 55% higher compared to 2014. But COA said that it does not have any negative findings regarding this increase […]
(Reuters) — Respect for and protection of freedom of religious belief is China’s long-term basic national policy, stated the white paper “Freedom of Religious Belief in Xinjiang” published by the State Council on Thursday. The paper said Chinese laws protect normal religious activities. Citizens can have all normal religious activities in their own homes or at religious venues in accordance with the customary religious practices, including going to prayers, Ramadan, worshiping Buddha and other […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — More than 2,000 Indians contracted HIV over a 17-month period after receiving blood transfusions, data from the national AIDS body showed Wednesday. In response to a Right to Information request filed by Mumbai-based activist Chetan Kothari, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) said 2,234 people had been infected between October 2014 and March 2016. The reply, which was shared with AFP Wednesday, was sent to Kothari last month after he […]
(Eagle News) — Los Angeles was not always a car town. In this urban exploration video of Eagle News correspondent Ashlei Joy Latag, EBC’s Southwest California Bureau traced the history of Los Angeles, looking back at LA as a city that once relied on public transportation, and even passageways such as the stairs all around the city that were once used by hillside residents. Now, urban explorers rediscover these stairs and more as the […]
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and was formally established under Presidential Decree 1060 on 9 December 1976. With the Promulgation of Republic Act (RA) 7157, or the Philippine Foreign Service Act of 1991, the mandate of the institute was revitalized and expanded. “The institute, through its academic, training, research, information, publication, systems development and other programs, shall serve as the center for the development and professionalization of […]
by Shaun Tandon NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Prince died from an accidental overdose of painkillers, autopsy results showed Thursday, confirming the pop icon as the highest-profile victim of the US epidemic of opioid abuse. Ending weeks of speculation, a medical examiner in Prince’s native Minnesota ruled the 57-year-old’s April 21 death an “accident” caused by self-administration of fentanyl, a powerful opioid used to treat severe pain. The medical examiner’s office, as is customary, […]
by Shingo Ito and Kyoko Hasegawa TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A seven-year-old boy missing since being abandoned in a bear-inhabited forest in northern Japan as a punishment nearly a week ago was found alive on Friday and reunited with his parents, officials said. The boy, apparently unharmed and in good health, was discovered at a military base. Reports said he had taken shelter in a hut and found a tap to drink from but was hungry […]
SAN DIEGO, United States (AFP) — US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton tore into her likely election rival Donald Trump as never before Thursday, saying his foreign policy is dangerously incoherent and labeling him unfit for office. “He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility,” Clinton said, cranking up the rhetoric in what is already a deeply acrimonious election. “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear […]
POP singer Katy Perry visited the rural Ninh Thuan province in Vietnam as part of her role as Unicef goodwill ambassador. The singer visited various Unicef-backed institutions and rural villages to highlight the plight of children affected by exclusion or poverty in the region. According to the Unicef press release, in some regions of Ninh Thuan, 20 percent of children don’t go to school and around half of children live in poverty. 15 per cent […]
CHINA’s claim to more than 80% of the South China Sea, which includes overlapping claims with the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Vietnam, took another hit recently when Dr. Tran Duc Anh Son, a Vietnamese historian and Deputy Director at the Da Nang institute for Socio-Economic Development, visited Yale University in New Haven, Ct. A report in Forbes said that Vietnamese historian and Deputy Director at the Da Nang Institute for socio-Economic Development, Dr Tran Duc […]
PRESIDENT-elect Rodrigo Duterte reiterates his stand on increasing the social security pension. Duterte already vowed to reverse President Aquino’s decision to veto a congress-approved bill that would grant SSS pensioners additional PHP 2, 000 in monthly pension. He emphasized that the government must treat retired government and private sector workers justly by providing enough pension funds to cover urgent necessities like medicine, whose prices have gone high, and to assure smooth and shorter processes in […]
(Eagle News) — Tiniyak ng Philippine National Police (PNP) na haharapin ng kanilang mga tauhan ang mga kasong kriminal at kasong administratibo na umano’y isasampa ng Commission on Human Rights (CHR). Kaugnay ito ng madugong dispersal sa mga nagprotestang magsasaka sa Kidapawan City noong Abril na ikinasawi ng dalawang indibidwal. Ayon kay PNP spokesperson PC/Supt. Wilben Mayor, bibigyan nila ng sapat na legal support ang mga pulis para harapin ang kanilang kaso. Sa kabila nito, […]
