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(Eagle News) — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board on Tuesday ordered the suspension of seven Partas buses. This was after the company failed to give the agency the dash cam footage and Global Positioning System tracking data of the bus involved in the fatal road crash in Agoo, La Union on Monday, as requested by the agency. The footage and the tracking data were supposed to be used in the LTFRB’s investigation of […]
(Eagle News) – Nangako ng tulong ang gobyerno ng Japan para sa mga biktima ng bagyong Vinta at ng sunog sa Davao City. Mismong si Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ang nagsabi nito kasabay ng kanyang pagpapaabot ng pakikiramay sa mga naging biktima ng bagyo at ng sunog sa NCCC mall noong Sabado, ika-23 ng Disyembre. Kabilang aniya sa ipagkakaloob na tulong ng Japan ang emergency relief goods. Ayon kay Prime Minister Abe, kaagapay ng […]
(Eagle News) – Isa na namang sunog ang naganap sa isa pang mall sa Davao City nitong Martes ng madaling araw. Sumiklab ang apoy sa Robinsons Cyber pasado alas 3 ng madaling araw. Ayon kay Sr. Insp. Ma. Teresita Gaspan, tagapagsalita ng Davao City Police, posibleng nag-overheat na air-conditioning unit ang pinagmulan ng apoy. Hindi naman na lumaki ang sunog at mabilis ding naapula. Wala ding naitalang nasugatan sa insidente.
(Eagle News) — A militant labor group on Tuesday said the company that employed the 37 call center agents who died after being trapped in their burning office in Davao should be held accountable for their deaths. Alan Tanjusay, spokesperson of the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, said if Research Now SSI, the Texas-based call center company, had complied with “the labor inspection standards on the fire exits, sprinkler system, ventilation, lighting, noise, […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck Nueva Vizcaya on Tuesday. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake took place seven kilometers east of Kayapa. The earthquake–which struck at 12:12 p.m.–was tectonic in origin. There were no reported aftershocks.
(Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe reiterated her call for the creation of a National Transportation Safety Board, following the deaths of 20 people in a head-on collision between a bus and a jeepney in La Union on December 25. “Higit kailanman kailangan natin ng isang (NTSB) na magiimbestiga at magbabantay sa mga sakunang pantransportasyon gaya nito upang maiwasan ang mga pagkakamali at pagkukulang na humahantong sa pagkawala ng buhay ng ating mga kababayan,” Poe […]
AGOO, La Union (Eagle News) – Twenty people, including children, from the same extended family and neighborhood on board a jeepney were killed early Monday, December 25, in a head-on bus collision while travelling to Catholic dawn church service in Agoo, La Union province, police said. Their vehicle, a private Isuzu jeepney, was reportedly on its way to Manaoag when the accident happened around 3:30 a.m. Monday. The dead included six children. A report by […]
CARMEN, North Cotabato (Eagle News) — Patay ang labing isang miyembro ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) sa operasyon ng militar laban sa grupo sa Carmen, North Cotabato. Ayon Capt. Arvin John Encinas, tagapagsalita ng Army 6th Infantry Division, walo sa 11 miyembro ng BIFF ay nasawi sa airstrike na ikinasa ng militar sa Barangay Tonganon mula noong Martes. Nakubkob din ng army ang pinaniniwalaang training camp ng grupo. Ayon kay Encinas, nasugatan naman ang […]
Ni Ferdinand C. Libor Jr. Eagle News Service PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Eagle News) – Isinailalim na sa state of calamity ang pitong bayan sa Zamboanga del Sur dahil sa matinding pinsala ng pagbaha dulot ng bagyong Vinta. Mismongsi Vicente Cajeta, officer-in-charge ng Zamboanga del Sur, ang nagdeklara ng state of calamity sa Tambulig, Molave, Mahayag, Ramon Magsaysay, Dumingag, Tukuran, at Kumalarang sa isinagawang espesyal na pagpupulong sa Sangguniang Panlalawigan. Pinakamatinding napinsala ng baha […]
by Ferdinand Cabrera Agence France-Presse DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine authorities ordered a criminal investigation Monday into a shopping mall fire that authorities said likely killed 37 people, including call centre staff from an American firm. Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre announced the inquiry as firemen prepared to enter what remained of the NCCC mall in the southern city of Davao where they hope to retrieve those who perished in Saturday’s blaze. The fire compounded the […]
BALIUAG, Bulacan (Eagle News) – Nilamon ng apoy ang tatlong kabahayan sa Concepcion, Baliuag, Bulacan nitong Linggo, Disyembre 24. Ayon sa impormasyon, nagsimula ang sunog sa bahay ng mag-asawang Corazon at Rudy Escribel. Dahil sa mabilis na pagkalat ng apoy ay nadamay ang dalawa pang bahay na pag-aari nina Sylvia Escribel at Danny Reyes. Ayon sa mga residente ay nagsimula ang sunog bandang 11:30 ng umaga at idineklarang fire-out sa ganap 2:30 ng hapon. Sa […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nasa ilalim na ng state of calamity ang labindalawang (12) lugar sa Eastern Visayas o Region 8 dahil sa bagyong Urduja. Ayon kay NDRRMC Spokesperson Romina Marasigan, ang mga lugar ng Ormoc City, Tacloban City, bayan ng Sta. Fe sa Leyte, bayan ng Biliran, bayan ng Tanauan sa Leyte, bayan ng Can-Avid sa Eastern Samar, bayan ng Zumarraca Sa Samar, bayan ng Llorente Sa Eastern Samar, bayan ng Barugo […]
