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(Eagle News) –Typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) has left at least 15 persons dead, even as officials expect this number to rise as more bodies are found in Northern Luzon which was badly hit by the tropical cyclone. The fatalities were from Region 3 or Central Luzon, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Southern Tagalog or CALABARZON. The number of injured at three are also expected to rise. The number of missing was also listed […]
(Eagle News) – Twenty-two people are still believed to be missing in the landslide that buried the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) second engineering district office in Mountain Province as full search and rescue operations entered its second day. Four bodies have been recovered in the rubble, according to the Philippine Information Agency – Cordillera Administrative Region, different from its earlier statement that five bodies had been recovered. “PIA MOUNTAIN PROVINCE: As […]
(Eagle News) — Former Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña has officially started his new job as director general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) after taking his oath before President Rodrigo Duterte. In his speech before he turned over his former job to former MARINA administrator Rey Leonardo Guerrero on Wednesday, Oct. 31, Lapeña insisted he had tried to institute reforms at the controversial Bureau of Customs, even as he admitted that […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has confirmed that former customs intelligence officer was indeed admitted to the Department of Justice’s Witness Protection Program (WPP). “Yes, Mr. Guban has been admitted into the WPP. But that’s all that I can say,” he told reporters on Tuesday afternoon. Guevarra refused to give more details citing the “confidential” nature of the WPP. Thank you for understanding the confidential nature and purpose of the WPP. Really […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — An Australian nun who battled a government bid to expel her from the Philippines after she angered President Rodrigo Duterte, said Wednesday she will leave rather than face certain arrest and deportation. Patricia Fox’s abrupt announcement came because immigration authorities refused hours earlier to extend her tourist visa and ordered the 71-year-old out by Saturday. Fox, who has spent nearly three decades advocating for the Philippines’ poorest, has become a symbol […]
(Eagle News) — Naging matagumpay ang isinagawang lingap sa mamamayan ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa mga mahihirap na komunidad sa bansa at maging sa iba’t-ibang panig ng mundo. Sa pagkakataong ito, ang mga residente naman ng Muslim compound sa Culiat, Quezon City ang nilingap ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa ilalim ng programang “Lingap Laban Sa Kahirapan” na inilunsad ng tagapamahalang pangkalahatan ng Iglesia Ni Cristo, ang kapatid na Eduardo V. Manalo. Nagkaloob ang Iglesia Ni […]
(Eagle News) — Bahagyang bumaba ang trust rating ni Vice President Leni Robredo batay sa bagong survey ng Social Weather Stations (SWS). Ayon sa SWS survey na ginawa mula September 15 hanggang 23, mula 40% ay bumaba sa 38% ang trust rating ni Robredo. Sinabi ng 59% ng mga Pilipino na mayroong silang “much trust” sa Pangalawang Pangulo habang 21% ang mayroong “little trust” at 21% ang undecided. Dahil dito ay bumaba ng 2 puntos […]
(Eagle News) — Rescue operations are now ongoing at the site of a landslide in Natonin, Mountain Province where the Department of Public Works and Highways DPWH second district engineering office building was buried under mud and rocks after typhoon Rosita’s onslaught on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, according to DPWH secretary Mark Villar. “Rescue operations now on going at Brgy Banawel, Natonin. Let’s pray for those affected by the landslide,” said DPWH Secretary […]
(Eagle News) — All storm warning signals have now been lifted after “Rosita” (international name Yutu) weakened to a severe tropical storm from a typhoon category is now hovering over the Wes Philippine Sea. It has weakened, and has now maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometers per hour and gustiness of up to 120 kph, according to PAGASA, the country’s weather bureau. In its 5 a.m. update, Wednesday, Oct. 31, PAGASA said Rosita was […]
(Eagle News) – Thirty-one people, including 20 contractors of the Department of Public Works and Highways, were trapped and feared dead in a landslide that buried in mud and rubble the DPWH second district engineering office in Natonin, Mt. Province on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 30. The landslide happened between 4 pm and 5 p.m., as rains and winds from typhoon Rosita (Yutu) still continued to be felt as it moved westward out of the […]
(Eagle News) – Typhoon Rosita, with international name Yutu, pummeled Luzon, with the northern part, at the receiving end of most of its wrath as the typhoon made landfall in Isabela and exited La Union Tuesday, leaving a trail of destruction. Entire roofs were ripped off. Trees were felled like matchsticks. Steel structures were bent and warped Signboards were blown over. And even gasoline stations were no match to the strong winds with gusts […]
(Eagle News) – The camp of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV wants the Makati regional trial court — which had earlier refused to issue an arrest warrant against the opposition senator — to reverse its ruling upholding the validity of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Proclamation No. 572. Atty. Reynaldo Robles, Trillanes’ lawyer, had already informed the Makati regional trial court branch 148 of the senator’s decision to file a motion for partial reconsideration on the court’s […]
