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INCOMING President Rodrigo Duterte maintained that the Philippines would assert its claims over disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea and Sabah. China has been maintaining that the disputed areas fall within the “nine-dotted line” which it asserts as its territory. But the Philippines has challenged this claim in the international tribunal for the law of the sea, and said that China violated the United Nation’s Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, […]
ISE-SHIMA, Japan (AFP) — The leaders of the Group of Seven advanced democracies on Friday said they are worried over rising maritime tensions in Asia and called for disputes to be resolved without resort to force. “We are concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas, and emphasise the fundamental importance of peaceful management and settlement of disputes,” they said in a statement at the end of a two-day summit, though refrained from […]
Isusulong ni incoming president Rodrigo Duterte ang dayalogo sa mga rebeldeng grupo, kabilang ang Communist Party of the Philippines o CPP at Moro National Liberation Front o MNLF. Sinabi ni Duterte na nakipag usap siya kay Fidel Agcaoili, tagapagsalita ng National Democratic Front o NDF kagabi sa Davao City. Nagkasundo aniya sila sa framework kung paano itutuloy ang usapang pangkapayapaan. Una nang nagpahayag ng kahandaan si duterte na maka-trabaho ang mga komunista sa pamamagitan ng […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Energy stocks jumped in Asia Thursday after oil surged past $50 a barrel for the first time this year, providing a bright point as regional bourses generally took a breather. Oil prices, which have been edging towards the psychological barrier as global supply disruptions mount, were buoyed by data showing a fall in US crude inventories that put another dent in a stubborn glut. Canada’s central bank also announced that […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte revealed that Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called him to congratulate him in his victory in the May 9 elections. According to Duterte, he and Trudeau discussed in the nine-minute conversation the death of one of the Canadian hostages in Mindanao. Duterte said that he apologized for the incident and added that they also talked about protecting human rights. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Department of Education asks public schools to refrain obliging students to buy expensive school supplies. The DepEd added that buying branded school supplies causes budgetary constraints to families of public school students. Parents are encouraged to visit the website of the Department of Trade and Industry to view the price guide for school supplies. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Chairman Andres Bautista of the Commission on Elections announced that the commission will have a nationwide post-election assessment in order to aid it in the proposed electoral reforms. Bautista added that he has no plans to submit courtesy resignation during the administration of incoming President Rodrigo Duterte because he is the head of an independent constitutional body. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded […]
(Reuters) Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Wednesday his country was not pursuing a military buildup over the South China Sea and would work with allies to seek peaceful solutions to disputes, with no use of force. Speaking in a rare interview with some foreign journalists after a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, Phuc said the South China Sea dynamic had grown in complexity and needed regional friends and strategic partners […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The global financial crisis may have caused an additional 500,000 cancer deaths from 2008-2010, a new study said Thursday, with patients locked out of treatment because of unemployment and healthcare cuts. The figures were extrapolated from an observed rise in cancer deaths for every percentage increase in unemployment, and every drop in public healthcare spending. “From our analysis we estimate that the economic crisis was associated with over 260,000 excess cancer […]
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Microsoft announced Wednesday it would let go up to 1,850 employees and a Finnish union called it the end of the company’s smartphone manufacturing business, bought from Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia. “Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced plans to streamline the company’s smartphone hardware business, which will impact up to 1,850 jobs,” it said in a statement, adding 1,350 of those jobs would be eliminated in Finland where its smartphones have been […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — World leaders kick off two days of G7 talks in Japan Thursday with the creaky global economy, terrorism, refugees, China’s controversial maritime claims, and a possible Brexit headlining their packed agenda. Heads of state and government from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and host Japan are meeting in Ise Shima, a mountainous, sparsely populated area about 300 kilometres (200 miles) southwest of Tokyo. The group, including US president […]
by Ben Dooley BEIJING, China (AFP) — The disputed rocks and reefs of the South China Sea are more than an ocean away from the landlocked African nation of Niger. But that has not stopped the strife-ridden, largely desert country of 17 million people adding its voice to a growing diplomatic chorus that Beijing says supports its rejection of an international tribunal hearing on the waters. Others apparently singing from the same hymn sheet include […]
