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MANILA, Philippines – According to SMARTMATIC, 85% of the polling precincts will make use of three SIM cads given by major telecommunication companies in order to transmit votes during the 2016 election. SMARTMATIC added that it was the Commission on Elections that made said decision due to the limited budget as well as the prohibitive cost of satellite transmissions. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
MANILA, Philippines – According to the Department of Labor and Employment, 60 overseas Filipino workers in Qatar will be laid-off this April due to employer cost-cutting. Some of the OFWs affected have worked in Qatar for 10 years. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City (Eagle News) — Asahan ang mainit at humid na panahon sa malaking bahagi ng bansa ngayong araw, Abril 5. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), epekto ito ng dalawang umiiral na weather system sa bansa. Ang ridge of high pressure area ang nakakaapekto sa northern Luzon at easterlies naman sa silangang bahagi ng central at southern Luzon, Visayas at Mindanao. Nitong Sabado, Abril 2, pumalo sa mapanganib na […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Rising tensions worldwide helped push up military expenditure in 2015, the first increase after four years of declining spending, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report published on Tuesday. For the full-year 2015, world military spending totaled $1.67 trillion, a rise of one percent from the previous year. The increase was attributed primarily to more expenditure in Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East, while the decline […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The world’s first public dengue vaccination program was launched in the Philippines on Monday as nurses began injecting the first batch of a million children with a French drug to combat the sometimes deadly disease. Several hundred children aged 9-10 queued in front of government health workers at a public school in eastern Manila for the injections, capping a 20-year, 1.5-billion-euro ($1.8 bn) effort by French drug manufacturer Sanofi to develop the […]
(Reuters) — The chair that birthed Harry Potter and millions of so-called Potterheads is hitting the auction block. The wooden dinning chair once owned by J.K. Rowling, comes with a letter in which she said she was sad to let it go. “This is a chair that J.K. Rowling wrote the first two Harry Potter books on. And it was in her government flat. It was given to her with a group of chairs. […]
by David Williams PARIS, France (AFP) — Several countries launched tax evasion probes Monday after a massive leak of confidential documents lifted the lid on the murky offshore financial dealings of a slew of politicians and celebrities. The scandal erupted on Sunday when media groups began revealing the results of a year-long investigation into a trove of 11.5 million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in creating offshore shell companies. […]
By Juan José Rodríguez PANAMA City, Panama (AFP) — Alarm spread through Panama on Monday as concerns rose that a massive data leak from one of its legal firms could threaten its vital financial services sector that relies on offshore business. President Juan Carlos Varela vowed that “what we are going to do is defend the image of our country,” while worried representatives from the financial and associated legal sector held an emergency meeting […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — US and Philippine troops began major exercises on Monday as China’s state media warned “outsiders” against interfering in tense South China Sea territorial disputes. The official Xinhua news agency gave the warning as Manila and Washington launched the 11-day Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder) exercises with a low-key opening ceremony in Manila. US Defence Secretary Ash Carter is to fly to the Philippines next week to observe live-firing of artillery and visit US Navy ships […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Olongapo City Regional Trial Court has lowered the maximum jail term of US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton from 12 years to 10 years, for the killing of a Filipino transgender, Jennifer Laude, while affirming his conviction. Olongapo RTC Branch 70 Judge Roline Jinez-Jabalde cited the mitigating circumstances of “passion and obfuscation” and “intoxication” in reducing Pemberton’s prison sentence, in the March 30 ruling. Harry Roque, legal counsel […]
MINDANAO, Philippines – According to the West Mindanao Command, the Armed Forces of the Philippines held talks with Malaysian authorities regarding the latest incident of kidnapping of four Malaysian nationals in Sempurna, Saba. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Senate is now considering the possibility of asking for assistance from the International Criminal Police Organization or Interpol in order to locate primary suspects in the money-laundering scam that resulted in the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh Central Bank. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
