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(Eagle News) – The country has already fully vaccinated over 20.2 million individuals considered 26 percent of the target population, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said. As of Sept. 26, Sunday, those who were fully vaccinated reached 20,205,806, while those who received just the first dose already reached 22,541,383, or a total of 43,933,886 vaccinated individuals. “Hopefully before the end of the month maka-reach tayo ng 30% of our targeted population,” said Galvez […]
(Eagle News) — Partial operations of a segment of the Philippine National Railways-Bicol project are expected next year, the Department of Transportation said. According to DOTr Undersecretary for Railways Timothy John Batan, among the stations expected to start operating in the first and second quarter of 2022 are the San Pablo, Laguna; Lucena, Candelaria and Pagbilao stations in Quezon. The four stations are only some of the overall 35 stations that will dot the 560-kilometer […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that relations between Beijing and Taipei were “grim” on Sunday, urging the island’s main opposition party to help seek “unification of the country.” China views self-ruled democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and vows to retake it one day, by force if necessary. Xi has become the most bellicose leader since Mao Zedong, describing the seizure of the island as “inevitable.” In a congratulatory […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, under pressure to adopt a 2050 net-zero carbon emissions target, said in an interview published Monday that he may not join this year’s landmark UN climate summit in Glasgow. The world’s biggest coal exporter by value, and still reliant on fossil fuels for most of its electricity, Australia has not made a firm commitment on its own greenhouse gas reductions. Morrison has vowed to mine and […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered the Philippine National Police Academy management to review existing rules and regulations, and academic policies in the institution to further prevent any incidents that lead to deaths of cadets in the hands of other cadets. Eleazar gave the directive to PNPA Major Gen. Rhoderick Armamento, and the chief of the Directorate for Human Resources and Doctrine Development, Police Brigadier Gen. Arthur Bisnar in a […]
by Paula RAMON Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, California (AFP) – The so-far successful battle this month in California to save the world’s biggest trees from ever-worsening forest blazes seems to offer an important lesson: You can fight fire with fire. Human-caused climate change has made the western United States hotter, drier and more vulnerable to increasingly destructive wildfires, which have this year taken a horrific toll on the region’s forests. That has included threatening huge […]
(Eagle News) — The trough of Typhoon “Mindulle” is affecting the eastern sections of Southern Luzon and Visayas. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers. The rest of the country will have the same conditions as “Mindulle,” which is located 1,600 kilometers east of extreme Northern Luzon, moves north northwestward at 10 kph. Flash floods or landslides […]
by Deborah COLE Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – With growing fears about global warming, deadly floods linked to climate change and a new political landscape as Angela Merkel leaves the stage, it should have been the German Greens’ year. After launching their campaign for Sunday’s general election in the spring with a youthful, energetic candidate in Annalena Baerbock, the sky seemed to be the limit — perhaps even taking the chancellery. But although Germany […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Monday, Sept. 27: Flight schedules may change at any given time. MIAA advised passengers to coordinate with airlines prior to the travel as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. The travel ban on four countries on the Philippines’ updated red list is still in effect.
GOMA, DR Congo (AFP) – The reappearance of a lava lake in the crater of the Nyiragongo volcano in eastern DR Congo is a good sign, experts said Sunday, four months after a major eruption killed 32 people. Nyiragongo’s eruption on May 22-23 spewed out lava that buried homes in its wake, stopping just short of the northern outskirts of Goma, a city of some 600,000 people. Celestin Kasereka Mahinda, the scientific director of the […]
ICU utilization rate still at high-risk in NCR and nationwide (Eagle News) – The Philippines had an additional 20,755 new COVID-19 cases recorded on Sunday, Sept. 26, with recorded recoveries even higher at 24,391 as more laboratories reported their data to the Department of Health. The new active cases brought the total to 161,447 or just 6.5 percent of total confirmed COVID cases which already hit 2,490,858. Total recoveries were 2,292,006 or 92 percent […]
Tremor felt in Metro Manila, several areas in Southern Luzon (Eagle News) – A magnitude 5.7 quake shook Occidental Mindoro at 1:12 a.m. Monday, Sept. 27, which was followed by a 4.5 magnitude aftershock at 1:40 a.m., PHIVOLCS said. The magnitude 5.7 quake was 74 kilometers deep, with the epicenter located at 23 kilometers northeast of Looc, Occidental Mindoro, and was felt in several areas in Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon. The […]
