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MANILA, Philippines, September 11 (Eagle News) — According to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), there will be no increase in the honorarium received by teachers serving as Board of Election Inspectors in the coming 2016 election. The commission explained that the Department of Budget Management did not include said increase in the Php 20 billion – budget of the COMELEC due to a pending bill regarding the matter. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho […]
(Eagle News) — President Aquino on Thursday (Sept. 10) told finance ministers attending the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) in Cebu province of the Philippine experience in mounting an economic turn-around that the government under his watch was able to do, and equated this to the promise of economic prosperity that APEC brings. Addressing the start of the two-day APEC Finance Ministers Meeting at the Shangrila Hotel in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, the President boasted of his administration’s achievements […]
SEPTEMBER 11 (Eagle News) — Apple wants you to spend a lot more time looking at screens. They were everywhere at the company’s big special event in San Francisco. New iPhones, a bigger iPad, the iPad Pro, and new features on its watches and the biggest screen of them all: Apple tv. “I think, the TV was the buried lead here. I think, the idea of having a new, more apple-like TV experience is going […]
SEPTEMBER 11 (Eagle News) — Cine Europa celebrates its 18th year, fittingly, with the theme “coming of age”. The “debutante” was heralded with a socializing event for its European and Philippine partners, followed by remarks from honored guests and its first film-screening for 2015 in Mandaluyong City on September 9. During its two-month run, Cine Europa will screen twenty-three films from eighteen European countries. Venues in 10 different cities all over the Philippines are lined […]
MANILA, Sept. 11 (PNA) — The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) advised the public to bring umbrellas due to expected light to moderate rains in most parts of the country until the weekend. In an interview, PAGASA weather forecaster Manny Mendoza said on Friday that they continue to keep watch of a low pressure area and southwest monsoon affecting southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Mendoza said that as of 5 a.m. Friday, […]
(Reuters) –Queen Elizabeth sealed a special place in the Britain’s history by becoming its longest-reigning monarch on Wednesday (September 9), but amid warm tributes from politicians and the public, she said the landmark was not something to which she had ever aspired. Elizabeth, 89, surpasses the 63 years, 7 months, 2 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes that her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria spent on the throne. The occasion was marked by cheering, flag-waving crowds on […]
(Reuters) — At least two people were missing, scores were stranded in flooded homes and some 100,000 evacuated across a wide swathe of Japan on Thursday (September 10) after torrential rains sent rivers surging over their banks and through breakwaters. Record-breaking rain prompted authorities to issue “rare weather warnings” for 5 million people in a wide swathe of eastern Japan, where some areas received more than twice their usual monthly September rain in just 48 […]
(Eagle News) — Voting 10-0, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (Sept. 9) ordered the Philippine government to pay the Philippine International Air Terminals Co. Inc. (Piatco) $510.3 million as “just compensation” for expropriating the International Passenger Terminal III (IPT III) of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) almost a decade ago. The amount, included interest as of Dec. 31, 2014. It does not include the interest from Jan. 1, 2015 until Piatco is fully […]
MANILA, Philippines, September 10 (Eagle News) — According to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), the public should be careful regarding text scams and should ignore said texts rather than replying. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines, September 10 (Eagle News) — A group of public markets will conduct a “market holiday” in protest against the ordinance that will allow Mayor Joseph Estrada to enter into joint ventures that will privatize public markets in the city. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/SommSZU5UJU
MANILA, Philippines, September 10 (Eagle News) — Bagong Alyansang Makabayan or Bayan warned taxpayers that the deficit payment worth Php 106 million will be taken from taxes. Said deficit payment will be paid to the Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC). (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/rnRbhgT2lWU
QUEZON City, Philippines, September 10 (Eagle News) — News reporters in the Congress received snail mail containing fake money with the face of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, with said reporters from various media outfits saying that said mail constitutes black propaganda. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
