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(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night reiterated the country had sovereign rights over its claims in the South China Sea. The President made the assertion before the Chinese ambassador Zhao Jianhua and Filipino-Chinese businessmen, among others. “It has been the claim of the Republic of the Philippines na atin ‘yan… which we call before the China Sea, now the West Philippine Sea,” Duterte said. He also noted that the Philippine Rise was ours. “So […]
by Greg Heakes © Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James finished with 29 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists to capture his third career NBA All-Star Game MVP as Team LeBron stormed from behind to beat Team Stephen 148-145. James, who was also MVP in 2006 and 2008, made 12 of 17 field goal attempts in 31 minutes of playing time at Staples Center arena in downtown Los Angeles. “I need to continue […]
The Philippines and China are discussing joint mineral exploration in the South China Sea despite an ongoing territorial conflict over the strategic waterway, the foreign secretary said on Friday. The two countries, long embroiled in a dispute over their competing claims to the area, are hoping talks will open the door for them to jointly tap its resources, Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said. “We are pushing it aggressively because we need it,” Cayetano told […]
(Eagle News) — The government is about to ink an agreement with China to allow for the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers there. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III made the revelation in an interview over dzbb on Saturday, a day after a visibly angry President Rodrigo Duterte said the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait would stay. This was after the body of a Filipina was discovered in an apartment freezer in […]
The US Treasury on Friday placed three men–including a Filipino—it said were part of the Islamic State’s global financial network on its sanctions blacklist, as it seeks to shut down the flow of funds to the group. The Treasury said Abdulpatta Escalon Abubakar of the Philippines, Yunus Emre Sakarya of Turkey, and Mohamed Mire Ali Yusuf of Somalia all provided financial, material or technological support for the Islamic State group. Abubakar is alleged to have been […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday pledged government help to evacuate Filipinos wanting to leave Kuwait, blasting the Gulf state for “inhuman” treatment of migrant workers after reports of a gruesome killing in the country. Duterte, who last month temporarily banned citizens from traveling to Kuwait to work, said 120 workers had died in the country last year and that the body of one Philippine woman had been found stuffed into a freezer in recent days. […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand wildlife lovers are mourning the death of a gannet named Nigel, dubbed “the loneliest bird in the world” due to the absence of any feathered friends on his island home. Instead the seabird, also known as “no-mates Nigel”, spent years living among a colony of fake concrete birds set up by conservationists in a bid to attract wildlife. The antisocial avian fell in love with one of the […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, Russia (AFP) — The ozone layer that protects life on Earth from deadly ultraviolet radiation is unexpectedly declining above the planet’s most populated regions, according to a study released Tuesday. A 1987 treaty, the Montreal Protocol, banned industrial aerosols that chemically dissolved ozone in the high atmosphere, especially above Antarctica. Nearly three decades later, the “ozone hole” over the South Pole and the upper reaches of the stratosphere […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Washington Wizards are playing like contenders again as they took advantage of an out-of-sync Indiana Pacers team to pull off a 111-102 win as eight players scored in double figures Monday. All-star guard Bradley Beal scored 21 points and Kelly Oubre had 15 for the Wizards, who earned their season-best fifth consecutive victory. “I thought everybody chipped in and played well,” Washington coach Scott Brooks said. The Wizards […]
By Caesar Vallejos, Eagle News Service As it celebrates its golden journey, Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) steers the company as the bastion of values-oriented, family-centered programming in today’s freewheeling industry. Amplifying the thrust to take the lead in responsible journalism, EBC, in a symbolic move, went back to the academe and challenged students to embrace the true tenets of journalism. Held at the New Era University (NEU) last January 27, 2018, EBC hosted the Broadcast Journalism […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council insisted on Tuesday that the national government was giving enough assistance to Albay since the volcano was monitored in a restive state. In belying Albay Gov. Al Francis Bichara’s claims, NDRRMC Spokesperon Romina Marasigan said there were many food and non-food items in the provincial and regional offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and assistance continued to pour […]
