A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook southwest Colombia on Saturday afternoon, the USGS said, though there were no immediate reports of casualties or significant damage. The quake hit at 2:19 pm local time (1921 GMT), seven kilometers (four miles) northwest of the town of El Dovio in the Department of Valle del Cauca, at a depth of 113.3 kilometers (70.4 miles), the US Geological Survey said. Marta Lucia Calvache, a spokeswoman for the Colombian Geological […]
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Millions malnourished in Pakistan despite abundance of food
by Ashraf KHAN A frantic mother cradling her seven-month-old baby rushes towards the special paediatric ward in a desolate Pakistan town, his eyes are blank and he is smaller than most newborns. He is starving in a country that has no shortage of food, but which has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world and where malnutrition is rife. The infant weighs just 2.5 kilograms — the average for a healthy child […]
Cloudy skies to prevail in many parts of PHL today
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies will prevail in many parts of the country on Sunday, March 24, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. In its advisory, PAGASA said Batanes and the Babuyan Group of Islands will experience cloudy skies with light rains caused by the northeast monsoon. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers caused by localized thunderstorms, PAGASA said. According to the […]
Palace slams Sison for saying Duterte “like an old broken record”
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Saturday, March 23, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison for saying President Rodrigo Duterte sounded “like an old broken record” with his permanent termination of peace talks. “If as Mr. Sison says the President sounds like a broken record, the cantankerous steak chieftain of the National Democratic Front is like an echo with his repeated criticisms of President Rodrigo Duterte and this administration to stay politically […]
Sison: Termination of peace talks actually benefits “revolutionary” forces, Filipinos
(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison on Saturday, March 23, said the termination of the peace talks actually benefits the “revolutionary forces” and the “Filipino people.” In a statement, Sison said this was because “it drives the broad masses of the people and the organized revolutionary forces to wage all forms of resistance to isolate and intensify them in order to isolate and defeat the tyrannical US-Duterte regime.” He said […]
Several BPI electronic, ATM services unavailable from April 5 to 7
(Eagle News)–Some electronic and automated teller machine services of the Bank of the Philippine Islands will be unavailable from April 5 to 7. BPI said the online banking, mobile app, Bizlink platform, ATMs and cash accept machines, and debit and prepaid card services will be temporarily unavailable from 10 p.m. of Friday, April 5, to 5 a.m. of April 7, Sunday. BPI said this was because of a major systems upgrade to “enhance client experience.” […]
Galvez: “Safe conduct passes” of NDFP consultants considered “revoked” following official termination of peace talks
(Eagle News)—National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultants can now be arrested, government peace adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. said. In a statement, Galvez said this was because the safe conduct pass which was granted to them to “create an enabling environment before the formal peace talks” was “automatically revoked” with President Rodrigo Duterte’s official termination of the peace talks with the group and the dissolution of the negotiating panels.” He said as a result, the […]
DILG to Misuari: Don’t worry, gov’t advocacy for federalism never wavered
(Eagle News)–Moro National Liberation Front Chair Nur Misuari “should not worry” as the “government’s advocacy for a federal system has never wavered ..” This is according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government, which issued the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte said Misuari would go to war if the shift to federalism did not take place. According to the DILG, it was “now working with other government agencies in finalizing the details of […]
Junjun Binay’s former executive assistant passes away after being shot in Makati
(Eagle News)–The former executive assistant of ex-Makati Mayor Junjun Binay has died. Binay said Monette Bernardo, 44, succumbed to the gunshot wound she sustained when she was attacked last Thursday. According to the police, Bernardo was shot by a lone gunman after she alighted from her vehicle to enter her residence along Makiling Street in Barangay Olympia in Makati. The gunman fled with a cohort on board a motorcycle. The police are still determining the […]
Palace: Filing of ICC communication vs China’s Xi “may be futile exercise”
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Saturday, March 23, said that while it was the right of former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales to file it, the filing of a communication against China’s Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court may be a “futile exercise.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said this was because in the first place, China was not a member of the ICC and as […]
3.4-magnitude quake jolts Surigao del Norte
(Eagle News)–A 3.4-magnitude quake struck Surigao del Norte on Saturday, March 23. The earthquake hit 23 kilometers northeast of San Isidro at 8:04 a.m., the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. PHIVOLCS said the quake was tectonic in origin. No damage to property nor aftershocks were expected.
Partly cloudy skies expected in many parts of PHL today
(Eagle News)—-Cloudy skies will prevail in many parts in the country on Saturday, March 23, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, Bicol Region, Samar Provinces, Caraga, and Davao Region will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms. Batanes and Babuyan Group of Islands will also experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers but this time due to the frontal system. Place: […]
