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A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed close to one of China’s man-made islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday (October 27), drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest. The USS Lassen’s patrol was the most significant U.S. challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China claims around artificial islands it has built up in the Spratly archipelago as Beijing […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Want Yi warned the United States “not to make trouble out of nothing” in response to U.S Navy’s plan to send a destroyer to the South China Sea. A U.S defense official said the U.S. Navy plans to send a destroyer within 12 miles of China’s island in the South China Sea within the next 24 hours, according to the Cable News Network. Wang, who is attending a China-Japan-South Korea seminar in […]
Presidential candidate, sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago hit corrupt government officials and vowed to end corruption during a “meet and greet” with her supporters at the University of the Philippines Bahay ng Alumni in Diliman, Quezon City. Santiago stressed that she has conquered her stage-four lung cancer and decided to seek the presidency one more time. She earlier confirmed that Sen. “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., will be her running mate in the 2016 elections. (Eagle News Service)
The Philippines ‘ box office hit bio-film movie “Felix Manalo” hit the screen in Algeria Cinema at 10 o’ clock in the morning and also in Brito theater at 8 o’clock on Oct 25, 2015. Many people are waiting for the cinema open. Hundreds of Filipinos together with their friends lined up to watch their most awaited biopic film movie “ Felix Manalo” in two different venues here in the heart of Macau. After the […]
The biopic film “Felix Manalo” is making its international screening and now it has also come to Singapore. (Eagle News Service)
A United States guided-missile destroyer has entered the Chinese reclamation area in the disputed territories in the West Philippine Area after President Barack Obama gave his “go” signal. Washington reiterated that said move is a routine matter as the United States regularly conducts patrols in international waters. It is expected that Beijing will protest said move. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
The U.S. Navy sent a warship on Tuesday (October 27) within 12 nautical miles of two artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea, a U.S. defence official told Reuters, in a challenge to China’s territorial claims in the area. The official said the patrol was carried out by the destroyer USS Lassen near Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly archipelago, features that were formerly submerged at high tide before China began […]
Militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Monday (October 25) that killed a worshipper and wounded several others at a Shi’ite mosque in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia. The attack targeted the “rejectionist Ismailis” said a statement carried by the group posted on Twitter, referring to the Ismaili Shi’ite sect who are a minority in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has been hit by a spate of deadly shooting and bomb attacks, […]
A renown fort in India’s northernmost state suffered severe damage in an earthquake on Monday (October 26), said an official. A major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast on Monday, killing more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan, injuring hundreds and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range […]
Ambassador Raul Hernandez and other ASEAN officials attended the event. The forum was held at the ASEAN Federation of Korean Industries (FDI) in South Korea’s capital city. In a press kit provided to ASEAN journalists, manila ranked eighth – ahead only of Vietnam and Myanmar – compared with other ASEAN member states in terms of overall quality of infrastructure. Singapore topped the list, followed by Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia and Cambodia. The source of […]
A big time price rollback for gasoline and diesel is expected to be implemented by petroleum companies this week. The price rollbacks to be implemented in petroleum products were P1.00 per liter of gasoline and P0.60 centavos for every liter of diesel. Said implementation of big time rollback was due to the return of Iranian crude in the World Market. (Eagle News Service)
After spreading to Mindanao, the haze from Indonesia has further spread to the Visayas, and may even reach Metro Manila, if another storm hits the country. The state weather bureau, Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the, “smaze” or combination of smoke and haze, was caused by equatorial winds enhanced by typhoon “Lando”, which battered the Philippines last week. PAGASA acting administrator Vicente Malano said that wind analysis using the Singapore-based haze information […]
