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(Reuters) — A fire at a rural South Korean hospital for chronically ill elderly patients killed 21 people and injured eight on Wednesday (May 28) in the second major fire this week while the country still mourns the deaths of more than 300 people in a ferry disaster last month. The fire started after midnight at around 00:27 a.m. at the hospital in the southwest region of Jeolla, the local fire station said. It was put out relatively […]
(PUERTO PRINCESA CITY) — President Benigno S. Aquino III said he is against developments being done by other claimant countries in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) and that the Philippines might bring the issue to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). Vietnam, Malaysia, China and other countries are building or improving facilities in islands or atolls they claim, which President Aquino said […]
(Reuters) — Thailand’s military-run TV channel aired on Tuesday (May 27) a programme showing several high-profile detainees who were taken into custody after Army chief Prayuth Chan-ochatook over power in a bloodless coup last week. The programme hosted by a presenter and also an army spokesman, showed the accommodation of the detainees. They said the detainees had access to medicine and were being “well looked after” and that they have “never been tied up”. The programme also […]
Budget Secretary Butch Abad has decried allegations that he taught Janet Lim Napoles how to organize bogus foundations to get money from the government.
A town mayor in Compostella Valley died when his convoy was attacked.
Following terrorist attacks, China is leveling up its security drills nationwide
(Reuters) – A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan’s top courts on Tuesday in a so-called “honor” killing for marrying the man she loved, police said. Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer. Her father, two brothers and former fiance […]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a plan to withdraw all but 9,800 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and pull out the rest by the end of 2016, ending more than a decade of military engagement triggered by the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The decision means that Obama will leave office in early 2017 having extricated the country from the longest war in U.S. history. He ended Washington’s […]
IGLESIA NI CRISTO MEMBERS FROM THE UNITED STATES ARE IN A HISTORIC GATHERING FOR THEIR UNITY GAMES DON OROZCO REPORTS
Americans, Fil/Ams and Mexican Americans celebrate Memorial day at the Park – Don Orozco reports from San Jose, California
Classroom shortage may force public schools in Metro Manila to divide the student body and implement a three-day school week to accommodate the number of enrollees.
Due to the ongoing barricading efforts of the supporters of dismissed governor ER Ejercito, new Laguna governor Ramil Hernandez plans to use the Laguna Sports Complex as his office.
