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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — China will donate one million doses of its Sinovac coronavirus vaccine to Cambodia, the kingdom’s strongman premier Hun Sen has said, thanking “friend” Beijing for its generosity. Cambodia has long been a staunch ally of Beijing, receiving billions of dollars in soft loans and investment from China. While many countries reacted early in the pandemic by closing its borders to Chinese travellers, Hun Sen refused, and even travelled to Beijing […]
By MJ Racadio Eagle News Service entertainment contributor (Eagle News) – EBC Films’ “Guerrero Dos: Tuloy Ang Laban (The Fight Continues)” was selected as one of the two films from the Philippines that have passed the requirements to represent the country as a foreign language film entry to the 78th Golden Globe Awards this year. The list of foreign language films that made it to this year’s submissions to the Golden Globe awards is […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government will rehire some 15,000 contact tracers to sustain the country’s contact tracing efforts. In a statement on Saturday, January 16, the DILG said the rehires will work for at least six months. “While the country’s COVID-19 response is significantly improving, we should sustain our contact tracing efforts especially with the reported entry of the new UK coronavirus variant into the country,” the statement said. […]
Certificate Awarded to Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) Representatives for Continuous ‘Aid To Humanity’ The Philanthropic Organization of the Year, a first-ever recognition of its kind in Daly City, Californina was awarded to the Felix Y. Manalo Foundation, Inc., the socio-civic platform of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ). The award of recognition was presented by Daly City Mayor Glenn Sylvester and the City Council during a ceremony held through video conferencing […]
by Haeril HALIM / Agnes ANYA Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Friday, killing at least 42 people, levelling a hospital and severely damaging other buildings, authorities said, as they warned there were people still trapped beneath rubble. Hundreds were also injured when the 6.2-magnitude quake struck in the early hours, triggering panic among the terrified residents of the island, which was hit by a huge […]
(Eagle News) — Twenty-three more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said the additional recoveries pushed the PNP recovery total to 9044. Forty-two additional cases, however, pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 9464. Of these, 392 were active. No additional COVID-19 deaths were reported among the police, which means the death toll remains at 28. The government has said uniformed personnel–including policemen–were among the priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination program […]
(Eagle News) — Three wanted members of the New People’s Army were arrested separately in Luzon and Visayas, the Philippine National Police said. PNP Chief Debold Sinas said Ruffa Sobelario Baynosa, 44, who faces seven criminal cases for frustrated murder, was arrested on Thursday at Hacienda Ambulong, Barangay San Fernando, Talisay City in Negros Occidental. The PNP said the arrest was by virtue of a warrant issued by Ma. Rita Bascos Sarabia, presiding judge of […]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The coronavirus pandemic has slowed global migration by nearly 30 percent, with around two million fewer migrants between 2019 and 2020, according to a UN report released on Friday. Some 281 million people were living outside their country of origin in 2020. The report, entitled “International Migration 2020,” showed that two-thirds of registered migrants lived in just 20 countries, with the United States at the top of the list, with […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-two more COVID-19 recoveries have been reported among overseas Filipinos. The DFA said with the additional recoveries, the COVID-19 recovery total rose to 8617. Forty-two additional COVID-19 cases, however, pushed the total to 13540. No additional death was reported, which means the death toll remains at 935. The Middle East and Africa are still the regions with the most COVID-19 cases, recoveries and deaths among overseas Filipinos, with 7836, 4691, and 602, […]
by Robin MILLARD Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization’s emergency committee called Friday for globally-ramped up coronavirus sequencing studies in order to combat troubling new variants stalking the globe. The meeting was dragged forward by two weeks for urgent talks on the emerging, seemingly more contagious strains of the virus, as the death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic topped two million, according to an AFP count. The emergency committee came […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has cautioned foreigners against “travel exemption” scams as the Philippines added two more countries to its list of jurisdictions with travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, the DFA said the department “does not collect any ‘travel exemption’ fee or charge whatsoever from foreign nationals permitted to enter the country in accordance with the protocols, directives, and exemptions laid down by the (Inter-Agency Task Force) […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has announced the inclusion of Hungary and the United Arab Emirates to its list of countries with travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The government said foreign travelers from these countries will be temporarily banned from entering the Philippines starting January 17 until January 31. Filipinos, on the other hand, who have been to the affected countries and jurisdiction in the last 14 days are required to undergo and […]
