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QUEZON City, Philippines – According to the results of the survey conducted by the Social Weather Station last March 30 to April 2, 46% of 1, 200 respondents considered themselves poor which is lower compared to a similar survey conducted last December 2015 where 50% considered themselves poor. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/wEVjZd6EWyA
QUEZON City, Philippines – As early as now, the Congress through incoming House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said that its ready to give the executive department extra power to solve the traffic problem, especially in Metro Manila. Alvarez said the traffic problem can already be considered as a crisis and the new administration needs to implement drastic measures to solve it. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by […]
by Marlowe HOOD BONN, Germany (AFP) — Even after the world sealed a historic climate deal in Paris, the UN’s climate chief is worried humanity won’t be able break its fossil fuel habit in time to avert catastrophe, she told AFP Thursday. “My concern is whether the transformation is going to happen fast enough to avert the worst impacts,” Christiana Figueres said, referring to the global shift from carbon-polluting fossil fuels to green energy. “Greenhouse […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China will turn contested islands in the South China Sea into pleasure-trip destinations for “patriotic” tourists, state-media said Friday, in a move likely to further stoke regional tensions. China claims almost all of the strategically vital South China Sea despite rival claims from Southeast Asian neighbors and has rapidly built reefs into artificial islands capable of hosting military planes. But the Asian giant hopes to turn the area around Woody Island […]
Hawaii might be the best place in the nation to live, but it’s not the best place to make a living. In fact, for the sixth year in a row, Hawaii was rated the worst state for making a living in a new report from MoneyRates.com. Here’s EBC HAWAII bureau’s Alfred Acenas and Ron Hamilton
(Eagle News) — Malacañang claimed it is exerting “determined efforts” to rescue and secure the safe release of the remaining hostages in Mindanao. Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a recent statement that “government continues to exert determined efforts to bring about the safe release of the kidnap-for-ransom hostages through a combination of law enforcement and military operations.” President Aquino met with the security cluster at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Coloma said […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) –About 300 passengers and crew members were evacuated from a Korean Air Boeing 777 at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after one of the engines caught fire, officials said Friday. TV footage from the airport showed the plane, which was bound for South Korea’s Gimpo International, surrounded by red fire trucks and with the area around its left wing doused in foam. The plane’s inflatable emergency evacuation slides had all been deployed. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao said Friday he would skip the Rio Olympics even if professionals were allowed to compete, knocking out the Philippines’ best chance of winning its first gold medal. Pacquiao, who was this month elected to his nation’s Senate and harbours dreams of becoming president, said he wanted to instead focus on his political career. “I have decided to prioritise my legislative duty as I owe it to the […]
by Ivan Couronne BILLING, United States (AFP) — White House hopeful Donald Trump claimed victory Thursday in the Republican nomination race, while shrugging off criticism from the man he aims to replace, President Barack Obama, who blasted the billionaire’s ignorance and arrogant attitude. Trump vaulted past the threshold of 1,237 needed to win the party’s primary race when a group of unbound delegates from North Dakota said they would back him. The accomplishment caps an […]
by Shingo Ito HIROSHIMA, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama is set make history on Friday as he travels to Hiroshima — becoming the first sitting US leader to visit the site that ushered in the destructive power of the nuclear age. The trip comes more than seven decades after the world was first shown the potential keys to its own destruction when an American plane, the Enola Gay, dropped its payload, dubbed “Little […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Member states of the World Health Organization have agreed a long-awaited reform of the agency so that it responds more quickly and effectively to emergency situations. Accused of having wasted months before declaring war on the Ebola virus in west Africa, the WHO have developed a program to better cope with disease outbreaks and health emergencies. “WHO member states today agreed to one of the most profound transformations in the organisation’s […]
