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QUEZON City, Philippnes – The Laguna Lake Development Authority General Manager Neric Acosta filed a petition to the Sandiganbayan to allow him to travel to Bangkok, Thailand to attend a medical congress where he was invited to be a spokesperson. The Sandiganbayan recently issued a decision regarding the graft case wherein Acosta was charged. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/ZiAlUKizUgE
MANILA, Philippines – In a study conducted by the National Economic and Development Authority, 80% of Filipinos want a simple and comfortable life by 2040. Said simple life includes owning their own homes, having sufficient income, education and going to local trip vacations. Said study was conducted as part of said government agency’s plan to create a high-income-earning Philippines by 2040. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded […]
MANILA, Philippines — In the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Station, 40% of Filipinos agree that the Philippines should continue doing business with China despite the ongoing territorial dispute. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/RreoH16czMA
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines may invest in its first-ever submarine fleet to help protect its territory in the disputed South China Sea, President Benigno Aquino said Wednesday. The impoverished nation, which has never before operated submarines and until now relied largely on US surplus ships, has been ramping up defence spending in response to China’s military expansion in the region. China claims almost all of the South China Sea despite conflicting claims from […]
LARNACA,Cyprus – Egypt’s ambassador to Cyprus said on Tuesday (March 29) that the hijacker appears to have been motivated by nothing more than a family feud and that all passengers were safe. “The whole operation was going very well, from the very beginning, early in the morning around probably 8 o’clock until now, we were co-ordinating between the Egyptian and the Cypriot authorities,” said ambassador Hussein AbdelKarim Tantawy Mubarak. “I think the hijacker is something […]
Persons with disabilities or PWD’s are now exempt from paying value added tax on certain goods and commodities after President Benigno S. Aquino III signed into law a bill that exempts people with disability from paying the 12-percent vat. The said bill, authored by Leyte Representative Martin Romualdez, will put PWD’s on equal footing with senior citizens who are already exempted from vat payment on top of their 20-percent discount. The bill was ratified in […]
Liberal party standard bearer Mar Roxas distanced himself from the creators of the comic book that depicted him as a hero during the onslaught of typhoon Yolanda. Roxas, however, stand firm that the contents of the comics were accurate. The comic book titled “Sa Gitna Ng Unos” was distributed during an LP sortie in Cavite last Sunday. It was allegedly produced by the supporters of Roxas, as a response to critics who claimed that Roxas, […]
Oscar-winning actor Leonardo Dicaprio has visited the Indonesian jungle to help protect a biodiverse area from deforestation. Dicaprio spent the weekend in the Leuser ecosystem, on Indonesia’s main western island of Sumatra. The actor, an ardent supporter of environmental causes, was pictured accompanied by local environmentalists and flanked by two critically endangered Sumatran elephants. The elephants are among a dizzying array of rare animals that live in Leuser’s dense rain-forests. Dicaprio said on his Instagram […]
Businessman Kim Wong testified during a senate hearing yesterday that two Chinese men were responsible for moving 81 million dollars stolen by hackers from Bangladesh’s foreign reserves into Philippine casinos. Following the heist, the millions stolen from the Bangladesh Central Bank’s American accounts on February 5 were immediately sent via electronic transfer to a Philippine bank. The dollar accounts where the stolen funds landed were reportedly opened by two men, Sua Hua Gao from Beijing […]
Cambodian authorities rescued more than half a ton of live tortoises and pythons stolen by smugglers, a forestry official said Tuesday, the latest haul in a country with a thriving illegal wildlife trade. The animals — 102 elongated tortoises and 17 pythons — weighed a total of 570 kilos. Forestry official Y Sophy said, they were confiscated Monday afternoon from a cargo truck in Cambodia’s Kandal province. No arrests were made as the truck’s driver […]
Senator Bongbong Marcos has attributed to politics the staging of an online exhibition of the Marcos jewelry collection that was seized by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) in the aftermath of the people power revolution that toppled the government of his father, the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. The PCGG’s online exhibit titled “virtual jewelry exhibit, a story of excesses: what could have fueled a nation’s development” began on March 16. The PCGG said […]
by Philippe SIUBERSKI / Michelle Fitzpatrick RUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Brussels airport said it would not reopen on Wednesday despite drills to test resuming partial services after the suicide bombings that struck its departure hall and a metro train, as Belgium lowered the death toll to 32. Zaventem airport has been closed since twin bombings wrecked the departure hall on March 22, in coordinated suicide attacks that were claimed by the Islamic State group and […]
