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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan began construction on a fleet of indigenous submarines on Tuesday, the latest move by the out-gunned island to bolster its defences against increasingly bellicose threats from Beijing. Democratic Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by communist China, which views the self-ruled island as part of its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary. Beijing has piled on military, economic and diplomatic pressure […]
(Eagle News) – Five COVID-19 vaccines are set to hold their clinical trials here in the country, which would make the access to these vaccines easier for Filipinos. This was according to the Philippine COVID vaccine czar Carlito Galvez in his report to President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night, Nov. 23. These five vaccines are among the nine which have already undergone Phase 3 clinical trials and have showed promising results. The five vaccine […]
(Eagle News) –A thunderstorm advisory has been raised over parts of Mindanao. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said moderate to heavy rainshowers with lightning and strong winds are expected over portions of Surigao del Sur, Agusan del Sur and Davao City within the next one to two hours. PAGASA said these were due to localized thunderstorms. These conditions, the weather bureau said, are being experienced in Camiguin, Davao Oriental, Davao de Oro, […]
(Eagle News) – -State Prosecutor Juan Pedro Navera has passed away. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra confirmed the news on Tuesday, Nov. 24. “We are saddened by SASP Navera’s demise. He was one of our best,” Guevarra said. The cause of death was not disclosed, but reports said he was 49 years old when he died. Navera was lead prosecutor in the case against retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan, who was eventually convicted over the […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy, the first European country to be hit by the global coronavirus pandemic, on Monday passed the threshold of 50,000 deaths from Covid-19. Most took place earlier this year, but around 15,000 deaths have been reported since the beginning of September. The health ministry recorded 630 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 50,453. There were 22,930 new cases, to total more than 1.4 million. Italy joins […]
(Eagle News) — The Oroquieta City Hall of Justice is temporarily closed until Nov. 25. This was after Supreme Court Deputy Administrator Leo Madrazo approved the request of Executive Judge Nora Montejo for the temporary closure from 3 p.m. of Nov. 23. The request was made after a staff member of the Public Attorneys Office located in the building tested positive for COVID-19. All court personnel shall continue to work from home while a disinfection […]
(Eagle News) — Nine more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19. The Philippine National Police said with the additional recoveries, the recovery total rose to 7470. Twenty additional COVID-19 cases pushed the total to 7892. Of these, 396 were active. An additional death pushed the death toll to 26. The police are among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic as they continue to man checkpoints and enforce laws. The PNP has inked an agreement […]
(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos rose to 11560 after an additional case was reported in the Asia-Pacific region. The Department of Foreign Affairs said there was no new fatality or recovery reported as of Monday night. Recoveries were still at 7478, while COVID-19 deaths were at 834. The DFA said the Middle East and Africa were still the regions with the most COVID-19 cases, recoveries and deaths. They were at 7530, 4652, […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Nov. 24, urged the public to report graft corruption in government. In making the appeal, the President announced a P10,000 reward to tipsters, noting that he would make good his promise when he ran for President in the recent elections. “Iyong mga nasa window ng business permit, yang mga clearances, papahirapan ang tao kaya ang sabi ko sa inyo, if you want to earn money, good money, […]
(Eagle News) — A 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 6:55 a.m., had its epicenter 263 kilometers southeast of Sarangani. It had a depth of four kilometers. No damage nor aftershocks were reported.
Eastern sections of Mindanao affected by tail-end of a frontal system (Eagle News) — The northeast monsoon is affecting Luzon and Visayas. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the tail-end of a frontal system is also affecting the eastern sections of Mindanao. As a result, PAGASA said Eastern Visayas will have cloudy skies with rains. The rest of Visayas, Occidental Mindoro, and Palawan including Kalayaan Islands, on the other hand, will have […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Tuesday launched an unmanned spacecraft to bring back lunar rocks — the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the Moon in four decades. A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang’e-5 probe, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, blasted off from the Wenchang Space Center on the southern island province of Hainan at 4:30 am (2030 GMT Monday), the official Xinhua news agency reported. Beijing […]
