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Scandal-hit Toshiba on Friday appointed a new president to steer the vast conglomerate past a huge accounting scandal that has hammered its reputation. Company veteran Satoshi Tsunakawa, 60, a senior vice president who joined Toshiba in 1979, will replace incumbent chief Masashi Muromachi in June, Toshiba said. Muromachi became interim president in July last year after top executives resigned over the scandal. The company on Friday also named a new chairman, saying that new leadership […]
(EAGLE NEWS) — Supporters of presidential candidate and Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte expressed apprehensions about massive electoral cheating on election day, May 9, as reports about vote-counting machines (VCM) mysteriously counting a vote for administration candidate Manuel “Mar” Roxas II for blank ballots during a machine testing in Lanao del Sur. The group called MRRD-NECC or Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte National Executive Coordinating Committee said two of their election watchers tried the […]
ILOILO CITY, May 6(PIA)—The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines said it has put in place measures to ensure that the country’s power supply is geared up for the May polls. In a presentation during a forum facilitated by the PIA recently, Ben Doreza, NGCP operations and maintenance head in Iloilo, said the NGCP has already implemented its contingency plan. Among these contingency measures were the deployment of facilities and resources and the coordination with […]
DAGUPAN CITY, May 7 (PIA) – Travelling to tourism sites in the western part of Pangasinan is now easy as access roads leading to must-see attractions in the area were given a face lift, thanks to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). Tourists visiting the Tondol beach in Anda town will be surprised not only with the fine and long stretch of wide white sand beach but also with the paved roadway leading […]
LOS ANGELES , United States (AFP) — Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin had a bone-marrow procedure on his left thigh injury and will miss the USA team’s preparations for the Rio Olympics making it unlikely he’ll play in the 2016 Games. Griffin has started rehabilitation since undergoing the procedure on April 27 to address his left quadriceps tendon injury. The Clippers said in a statement on Friday that he would miss Team USA’s training […]
(REUTERS) Japan’s ambassador to the United States weighed in on the U.S. presidential election debate on Friday by arguing against the “America first” stance of Republican candidate Donald Trump and stressing the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Without mentioning Trump by name, the envoy, Kenichiro Sasae, told a Washington forum Japan had come up unexpectedly in the election debate, showing that nothing could be taken for granted in terms of the long-standing alliance. “In the […]
(REUTERS) Thousands of pigeons with tiny LED lights strapped to their legs swooped through the darkening skies in a jaw-dropping display of beauty, but savvy New Yorkers gazing up at the performance art knew enough to keep their mouths shut. As evening fell over the Brooklyn Navy Yard, once home to the nation’s largest naval fleet of carrier pigeons, artist Duke Riley opened an enormous coop and released the homing pigeons of his […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Power Rangers will get a new look as the popular kids’ show returns on air. The show features a new cast as well as new costume designs. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
(REUTERS) A U.S. think tank said on Friday that commercial satellite images it had obtained of North Korea’s nuclear test site taken on May 5 showed that the country may be preparing to carry out a nuclear test in the near future. The 38 North website, run by Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, said the images showed vehicle movement at the site “not often seen there except during preparations for a […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Manila mayoralty candidate Amado Bagatsing denied that there will be members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo that will attend his “miting de abanse” while wearing bonnets to remain unidentified. Bagatsing added that he respects the decision of the Iglesia Ni Cristo leadership on who the Church will vote for in the May 9 elections. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The legal team of the Poe-Escudero camp revealed that the Commission on Elections fired hundreds of vote-counting machine technicians, arousing the Poe-Escudero camp’s suspicion that this is a sign of the alleged plan to cheat on the coming elections. The COMELEC and Smartmatic both denied the allegations. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
QUEZON City, Philippines – The issue of who will penalize the various black propaganda that appeared during the campaign period still remains unresolved. According to the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, it is the Commission on Elections that has the power to regulate political ads as provided by the Fair Elections Act. On the other hand, the COMELEC said that it can only regulate the length of political ads and not the content. […]
