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(Eagle News)–Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has “fully recovered” from COVID-19. This is according to Interior Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya, who also thanked the public for their expressions of support. According to Malaya, Año tested negative for the virus on Sept. 2. He said the Interior secretary has also been told by doctors that he was “fit to work” and could “reassume duties as head of the agency.” This is the second time Año has […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he thinks that it is not yet time for Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to resign amid a Senate recommendation for him to be replaced as head of the country’s health department. In his talk to the nation on Monday night, Sept. 7, Duterte said he still trusts Duque as long as there the Department of Justice has not yet found any evidence pinning him for corruption in […]
(Eagle News)–Branch 133 of the Makati Regional Trial closed is physically closed until Sept. 11. A memorandum from Executive Judge Ethel Mercado Gutay said the temporary closure, which started on Sept. 7, was after a staff member of the branch tested positive for COVID-19. She said this was for purposes of contact tracing and disinfection. “During the affected days, transactions with the branch may be done through their official hotline numbers and judiciary/email accounts to […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA / Sara HUSSEIN TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Yoshihide Suga, the man expected to become Japan’s next prime minister, is a farmer’s son with a reputation for inscrutability, who has become a key government adviser, spokesman and policy enforcer. The 71-year-old is widely expected to win the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership race, which kicked off Tuesday, and be endorsed by parliament to replace outgoing premier Shinzo Abe. If he succeeds, the election […]
(Eagle News)–The number of online business registrants rose to 75,000 as of Sept. 2, the Department of Trade and Industry said. According to DTI, the 75,876 who registered were a huge increase from the 1,753 reported from January to March 15, before the community quarantines imposed in the country. According to Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez, business name applications reached 9,692 in May, and further increased in June when over 33,000 business names were registered. “The […]
Five additional deaths reported (Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed 12 additional COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos. With the additional cases reported on Monday night, the tally rises to 10129. Five new deaths were reported in the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East, bringing the death toll to 763. The Middle East and Africa still had the most COVID-19 deaths, with 482, followed by the Americas with 178, Europe with 95, and […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed a Filipino has died in the sinking of a Panamanian-flagged ship off Japan. The DFA made the announcement after authorities confirmed the person who was found face down and unconscious adrift at sea on Sept. 4 was indeed of Filipino nationality. The family of the deceased identified the remains, the DFA said. Meanwhile, the department said based on reports from the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo and the […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s total coronavirus cases have crossed half a million, health ministry data showed Monday, as the government struggled to contain a surge of infections in one of Europe’s hardest-hit countries. The country of around 47 million people has recorded 525,549 confirmed cases of Covid-19, and 29,516 related deaths, since its first case was diagnosed on January 31 on the remote island of La Gomera in the Canaries, the ministry said. This […]
(Eagle News)–Fourteen volcanic earthquakes were monitored at Taal in 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. According to PHIVOLCS, weak to moderate steaming was also monitored from the vents on the main crater of the volcano, which is on alert level 1. PHIVOLCS said the steam rose 10 meters before drifting southwest. PHIVOLCS reminded the public that “sudden steam-driven or phreatic explosions, volcanic earthquakes, minor ashfall, and lethal accumulations or expulsions of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s economy shrank slightly more than initially thought in the April-June quarter, official data released Tuesday showed, deepening a contraction that was already the worst in the nation’s modern history. The world’s third-largest economy shrank 7.9 percent in the second quarter of this year from the previous quarter, more than the initial 7.8 percent in the preliminary data, the Cabinet Office said. The downward revision comes with corporate investment weaker than […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — An Ecuador court on Monday confirmed ex-president Rafael Correa’s eight-year prison term for corruption, the attorney general said, blocking his vice-presidency run in next year’s elections. Correa, who has lived in Belgium since 2017 to evade the prison term, faces a lifetime disqualification from elections because Ecuador’s constitution bars those convicted of graft. The attorney general’s office said the National Court’s cassation court “by majority vote… rejects the appeals of cassation […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night, Sept. 7, explained why he granted absolute pardon to US marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberto, saying he believed the US soldier had not been treated fairly. Pemberton, who has been convicted for the killing of Filipino transgender Jennifer Laude in 2014 when he was just 19 years old, was ordered released by an Olongapo regional trial court early this month after it ruled that […]
