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Vows completion of improvement of Maribojoc port this month (Eagle News) — The government has inaugurated the new second passenger terminal of the Tagbilaran Port, which had been heavily damaged in the 2013 earthquake in Bohol. The Department of Transportation said the inauguration of Passenger Terminal Building II on April 14 was led by Transportation Secretary Art Tugade and Philippine Ports Authority general manager Jay Santiago. The new PTB had been completed in October 2020. […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and isolated rain showers are expected in the Philippines today. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said this was due to the trough of Tropical Storm “Surigae,” which is outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility, affecting Mindanao. So far, the tropical storm was situated 1,140 kilometers east of Mindanao, packing maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour near the center, and gustiness of up to 105 kilometers […]
(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Thursday, April 15: Flight schedules may change at any given time. MIAA advised passengers to secure confirmation of their flights beforehand as only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport. NCR Plus composed of Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan, and Metro Manila are so far under a modified enhanced community quarantine, imposed by the Palace […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse Noise pollution poses a long-term risk to tree populations and plant diversity that may persist even after the sources of excess noise are removed, according to research published Wednesday. Manmade noise from construction, industry and the building of infrastructure such as roads and pipelines has increased dramatically since the middle of last century, and biologists are increasingly concerned about their impact on plants and animals. While previous research […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — US President Joe Biden sent an unofficial delegation of former US officials to Taiwan on Wednesday in a signal of support for the democratic island as it faces increasingly hostile moves by China. Taipei said former senator Christopher Dodd and former deputy secretaries of state Richard Armitage and James Steinberg would land in the capital on Wednesday afternoon. “Once again this visit demonstrates the firm relationship between Taiwan and the […]
(Eagle News) — The physical closure of courts in the NCR Plus area is extended until April 30. According to Administrative Circular No. 22-2021 signed by Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, also physically closed until that date are the courts in Abra, Quirino and Santiago City. Those provinces and the NCR Plus area, which covers Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal have been placed under a modified enhanced community quarantine until the end of the […]
(Eagle News) — The trough of Tropical Storm “Surigae” outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility is affecting Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. According to the weather bureau, the eastern sections of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, and Northern Luzon will […]
FDA chief Domingo says he’s still waiting for full data on around 500k who have been given AstraZeneca shots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwgIwNlkBLg (Eagle News) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that there were no observed incidence of blood clots among the half a million who had been administered with the AstraZeneca vaccines in the country. FDA Director General Eric Domingo said that so far there had been no reported incidents of […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 892,880 on Wednesday, April 14, after the Department of Health reported 8122 additional cases. According to the DOH, the “low number of cases today was caused by lower testing output of laboratories on Monday.” The DOH data showed of the total cases in the Philippines, 173047 were active. Of these, 96.3 percent were mild, 2.4 percent asymptomatic, 0.4 percent were critical, 0.5 percent were severe, and […]
(Eagle News) — Over 200 more police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19. Data released by the Philippine National Police on Wednesday, April 14, showed the additional 288 cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 17917. Of these, 2481 were active. Almost 200, or 197, more recoveries were reported, pushing the PNP COVID-19 recovery tally to 15389. An additional death also pushed the PNP COVID-19 death toll to 47. Earlier, the PNP announced PNP Chief […]
BAODING, China (AFP) — A decade ago the plight of former champion gymnast Zhang Shangwu shocked China and made world headlines when he was discovered begging in Beijing, prompting one of the country’s richest men to give him a job. That should have heralded a turnaround for the troubled Zhang, who had been imprisoned for theft after injury ended his gymnastics career. But after another stint in jail, Zhang is again making a living […]
(Eagle News) — Two notorious illegal drug distributors were killed in an ensuing encounter with police conducting a buy-bust operation to arrest them in Las Pinas City on Tuesday night, the Philippine National Police said. The PNP said Richard Jen Jieko Salameda Amarga and Andrew Guinto Garcia were killed in the armed encounter with the team led by members of the PNP Drug Enforcement Group on Sherack St., Barangay Almanza Uno at 10:15 p.m. The […]
