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(Eagle News) – There are still 35 Filipinos out of the 67 OFWs who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Singapore who are still admitted in various hospitals in the city-state, according to the Philippine Ambassador in Singapore, H.E. Joseph del Mar Yap. In an interview with EBC-NET25 program “ASEAN in Focus,” Ambassador Yap gave an update of the situation of overseas Filipinos in Singapore. “As of yesterday, we have 67 OFWs who have […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is monitoring a low pressure area off Davao City. According to PAGASA, the LPA was located 920 kilometers east southeast of the city, and is embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone affecting the eastern section of Mindanao. PAGASA said Caraga and Davao Region will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms due to the ITCZ. Flash floods or landslides due to severe thunderstorms […]
by Udita Jhunjhunwala Agence France Presse MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan, whose international movie career included hits such as “Slumdog Millionaire”, “Life of Pi” and “The Amazing Spider-Man”, has died aged 53, his publicist said Wednesday. The Bollywood star, who was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor in 2018, was admitted to a Mumbai hospital earlier this week with a colon infection. “Irrfan was a strong soul, someone who fought till the […]
(Eagle News) — The number of coronavirus disease-2019 cases in the country has breached the 8000 mark, after the Department of Health reported 254 new cases on Wednesday, April 29. With the new cases, the total COVID-19 cases in the country now stand at 8212. According to DOH data, the total number of recoveries has, however, breached the 1000 mark, at 1023, including the 48 new recoveries. Twenty-eight new deaths were reported, for a total […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 29, announced the postponement of the 2020 bar examination. The postponement of the exam, which is supposed to be held in November, was announced in Bar Bulletin No. 11. S. 2020 issued by the Office of the 2020 Bar Chairperson, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. According to the bulletin signed by the chair, the postponement was decided on by the SC en banc upon his recommendation and […]
(Eagle News) – For the first time, the results of the bar examinations were released with none of the usual crowds awaiting the release of test results at the Supreme Court grounds in Padre Faura in Manila. The test results were released on Wednesday, April 29, only through online means at the Supreme Court website and social media without the usual fanfare and excited crowds in Manila. Out of the 7,685 candidates who completed […]
(Eagle News)–More than 2000 who took the bar exams in November last year passed. The 2,103 candidates who passed the 2019 bar examinations represent 27.36% of the 7,685 examinees who completed the licensure test. The exams cover political law, international law, labor law and social legislation, civil law, taxation law, mercantile law, criminal law, remedial law, and legal and judicial ethics and practical exercises. Mae Diane M. Azores of the University of Santo Tomas-Legaspi topped […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Southern Leyte on Wednesday, April 29. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which struck at 12:08 p.m., had its epicenter 11 kilometers northeast of Hinunangan. It had a depth of five kilometers. Intensity I was recorded in Surigao City. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, April 29, said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has yet to decide on Bacolod City’s appeal to be excluded from the list of areas that will be under a general community quarantine come May 1. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque issued the statement a day after the Bacolod City council filed Resolution No. 401 urging for the extension of the enhanced community quarantine in the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — California may start the new school year as early as July to make up for some of the “learning loss” due to the pandemic, the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. “We recognize there’s been a learning loss because of this disruption,” Newsom told reporters. “And so we are considering an even earlier school year into the fall, as early as late July, early August.” Schools in California, the […]
(Eagle News)–The National Capital Region Police Office has ordered the relief of its entire drug enforcement unit. The relief announced in a statement on Wednesday, April 29, came after one of the unit’s personnel, Patrolman Orlando Perez, was caught in the act of using a motorcycle that was seized as evidence during an anti-drug operation in Marikina City last April 5. Perez reportedly did not declare the same as evidence and instead took it home […]
by Issam AHMED Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Department of Homeland Security revealed to AFP on Tuesday new technical details regarding its highly anticipated study into how ultraviolet radiation destroys the new coronavirus, saying that its experiment had accurately mimicked natural sunlight. A summary of the research was presented last week at the White House, with some scientists calling for caution until a more comprehensive report was made public. US […]
