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(Eagle News) –The Bureau of Immigration has intercepted almost 500 illegal recruitment victims since January. According to the bureau, a total of 8,413 passengers were also not allowed to leave the Philippines for not having the proper documentation. The bureau made the statement as it hailed the rescue of what it said was another illegal recruitment victim and the arrest of a man it said was posing as an accredited liaison officer in Pasig City. […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases among police personnel rose to 42,118, Philippine National Police data showed on Tuesday, Nov. 16. According to the PNP, this was after 29 more cases were reported. Of the total PNP COVID-19 cases, 167 are active. COVID-19 recoveries among police personnel are at 41826, with the addition of 36 recoveries. The PNP COVID-19 death toll is at 125, with no additional COVID-19 deaths reported. Around 3,000 policemen remain unvaccinated for […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Joe Biden that US support for Taiwanese independence would be “like playing with fire”, state media said Tuesday, as the two held a long-awaited video call. “Taiwanese authorities have repeatedly tried to ‘rely on the US for independence’,” Xi was quoted as saying by state media agency Xinhua, adding: “Some people in the US intend to ‘use Taiwan to control China’. This trend is very dangerous […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday that he has “concerns” over human rights abuses and also warned against “unliteral” moves to change the status of Taiwan, the White House said. “President Biden raised concerns about the PRC’s (Chinese communist party) practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, as well as human rights more broadly,” the White House said in a readout after the virtual Biden-Xi […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s junta has charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with electoral fraud during 2020 polls that her party won in a landslide, state media reported on Tuesday. Suu Kyi was accused of “election fraud and lawless actions”, state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar reported, without giving details on when court proceedings would begin. Fifteen other officials — including former president Win Myint and the chairman of the election commission […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful Covid-19 vaccines while the world’s poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated, according to a new analysis. The companies have sold the vast majority of their doses to rich countries, leaving low-income nations in the lurch, said the People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA), a coalition campaigning for wider access to Covid vaccines, which based its calculations on […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Court Administrator and former Supreme Court spokesperson Jose Midas Marquez as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. This was announced by acting presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Marquez, 55, was the 14th Court Administrator of the Supreme Court, and with his recent appointment, becomes the 192nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He replaced Justice Edgardo delos Santos who retired […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian investors trod a cautious path Tuesday, with surging inflation the key point of concern on trading floors, while eyes were also on a virtual summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping as they plot their way through a period of tension between the superpowers. Global markets have enjoyed about 18 months of healthy gains — with many hitting record or multi-year highs — thanks to ultra-loose central bank monetary […]
TURIN, Italy (AFP) — Novak Djokovic expressed his shock Monday at the ‘disappearance’ of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who has not been heard from since accusing a powerful politician of sexual assault. Peng claimed earlier this month that former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli had assaulted her, the first time the #MeToo movement has struck at the top echelons of the ruling Communist Party. Chinese officials have refused to answer questions on the fate […]
by Patrick BAERT KUNMING, China (AFP) — Environmental activist Zhang Zhengxiang is almost blind, and lives in poverty — but he has successfully faced down hundreds of companies on the banks of one of China’s most polluted lakes. The 74-year-old strident campaigner has spent his life trying to protect the sprawling Lake Dian in southwestern China, challenging businesses to clean up their act around the local beauty spot and reporting those who pollute it. “When […]
by Abhaya SRIVASTAVA NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — New Delhi authorities announced Saturday a one-week closure of schools and said they would consider a “pollution lockdown” to protect citizens from toxic smog. “Schools will be shut so that children don’t have to breathe polluted air,” Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal told reporters. Delhi is ranked one of the world’s most polluted cities, with a hazardous melange of factory and vehicle emissions, and smoke from agricultural […]
by Santiago PIEDRA SILVA GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AFP) — Ecuador is “seriously threatened” by drug trafficking mafias who want to “take control of all the country’s prisons,” President Guillermo Lasso said Monday, after the heads of the armed forces and the prison service quit following jail riots that left 68 people dead. Lasso said a “massive operation” was underway by the police and the army in the overcrowded prison in Guayaquil, where two days of fighting […]
