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BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport on Thursday before flying home to Indonesia, years after being smuggled into Thailand. Poachers in Southeast Asia frequently capture the critically endangered orangutans to sell as pets, and police said four-year-olds Ung Aing and Natalee were supposed to be sold to a tourism business. Wildlife traffickers tried to smuggle the two in via Malaysia […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Charlotte Hornets forward Gordon Hayward has a fracture at the base of his right little finger and will miss at least one pre-season game, the NBA team said Wednesday. The Hornets said Hayward will be listed as day-to-day, indicating the injury on his shooting hand won’t require surgery. Hayward was hurt in the team’s pre-season loss to the Toronto Raptors on Monday. A statement from the club described it as […]
Duterte also hits NLEX for glitches in system, not doing trial run (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to fire officials of the Toll Regulatory Board for the traffic fiasco caused by the RFID mess in tollways that started with Duterhe implementation of cashless transactions on Dec. 1. “You know, I have to weed out incompetence. Listen very carefully to all and sundry, I do not want you … becoming a deadwood. If […]
(Eagle News) — Over 200 point-to-point provincial public utility buses will start plying roads starting December 21. In a statement, the Department of Transportation said the 269 buses that will travel in and out of Metro Manila was based on Memorandum Circular (MC) 2020-082 issued by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The buses will ply the following routes: Clark, Pampanga – SM North EDSA Clark, Pampanga – NAIA Terminal […]
by Andrea TOSTA Agence France-Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Alfredo Araya used to dig wells on farms or out in the countryside, but due to a failing water supply he says demand for his services has recently exploded in Venezuela’s capital Caracas. Using a huge drill to perforate the soil, Araya struck the underground aquifer below an apartment bloc in Caracas’ comfortable Los Palos Grandes neighborhood so that residents now have access to water that […]
by Marc PRÉEL STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Despite a sharper tone from authorities and new restrictions, Sweden, which has famously relied on non-coercive measures, is struggling to contain a strong second wave of Covid-19 it thought it could avoid. The capital Stockholm is once again at the epicenter of the epidemic and this week called on members of the public with medical training to help offset some of the burdens on healthcare. Lars Falk, a […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James and Anthony Davis eased into the NBA’s pre-season on Wednesday as the Los Angeles Lakers scored a 112-107 victory over the Phoenix Suns. James, who barely two months ago led the Lakers to their NBA Finals triumph in Orlando, bagged 11 points with two rebounds and two assists during 15 first half minutes in Phoenix. Davis added 10 points with four rebounds in 18 minutes on court. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6WsBiu_O3A&pbjreload=101 (Eagle News) — Valenzuela City mayor Rex Gatchalian has lifted the suspension that his city government had imposed on the business permit of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) Corporation, but with conditions that it would prevent a repeat of the previous traffic gridlock due to problems with the RFID implementation. Gatchalian said that the conditions are necessary so that NLEX would realize that the complaints of the riding public and motorists should not be […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo said Wednesday he would be the first person in the country to be vaccinated for Covid-19 as he unveiled a campaign promising free inoculations for everyone in world’s fourth most-populous nation. Widodo’s announcement comes as Indonesia battles misinformation over the virus in order to stave off a fresh wave of infections, with some 630,000 recorded by Wednesday and more than 19,000 deaths. “The Covid-19 vaccine for all […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife will get the Covid-19 vaccine Friday in a public display designed to boost national confidence, the White House announced Wednesday. Pence and his wife Karen Pence “will publicly receive a Covid-19 vaccine to promote the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and build confidence among the American people,” the White House said in a statement. The event, due to be held at […]
by Adrien MAROTTE Agence France-Presse ZADIE CAVES, Gabon (AFP) — The scene looks like something out of a science fiction movie, or maybe some dystopian TV series. Six men in yellow biohazard suits clamber in suffocating heat towards a cave in the heart of the Gabonese jungle. Their quest: to unlock new knowledge on how pathogens like coronavirus leap the species barrier to humans. In the cave is their goal — a colony of bats. […]
by Alice Philipson and Tran Thi Minh Ha HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — A strong response to the coronavirus pandemic, surging exports and healthy public spending have helped Vietnam buck a global recession in 2020 and fast-track its recovery, with analysts predicting it will likely enjoy one of the highest growth rates in the world. But the pain is not over for some sectors with containment measures and border disruptions hammering the country’s tourism industry, and […]
