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Photos by Hector Retamal and video by Leo Ramirez. by Sébastien RICCI Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — For eight days, an AFP team lived and worked at the centre of a global health emergency, witnessing how life in the Chinese city of Wuhan was turned upside down as it was cut off from the world. The city of 11 million was placed under an unprecedented quarantine to try and stop the […]
(Eagle News) — The Mutual Defense Treaty between the Philippines and the United States will be rendered useless if the Visiting Forces Agreement is terminated, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Tuesday, Feb. 11. In a statement, Lacson said the MDT, which posits that the Philippines and the US would act in accordance with the Constitution should there be an armed attack on either one of them, “will now be reduced to a mere paper treaty […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Feb. 11, denied the filing of a quo warranto petition against ABS-CBN was an encroachment on the power of Congress. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said “causing the forfeiture of a franchise,” after all, “is different from not granting a franchise.” “The former is exercised by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) in accordance with its legal mandate, while the latter is undertaken by Congress […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. signed on Tuesday, Feb. 11, the notice of termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States, a Foreign Affairs official said. In a Tweet, Undersecretary Brigido Dulay said the signing was “on the order of the President through Executive Secretary (Salvador) Medialdea.” He said the notice will be delivered to the US Embassy in Manila “forthwith.” Earlier, President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to scrap the […]
(Eagle News) – From Luzon to Mindanao, there are now 261 patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus infection who are being observed by the Department of Health (DOH) currently admitted in various hospitals. The total number of PUIs in the country has also reached 314, including 50 discharged cases who had tested negative for the virus, according to the DOH statistics as of Feb. 10, 2020. So far, the Philippines has three confirmed cases […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets rebounded on Tuesday spurred by fresh Wall Street records but investors remained jittery about the global economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Eyes are on China as the world’s second-largest economy sputters back up after a forced extension to the Lunar New Year holiday because of the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,000 people and disrupted major global supply chains. After a nervous start to […]
Both have “non-extendible” period of ten days from notice to do this, SC says (Eagle News) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Feb. 11, ordered ABS-CBN Corp. and ABS-CBN Convergence Inc. to comment on the quo warranto petition filed against them by the Office of the Solicitor General. In a statement, SC spokesperson Brian Hosaka said the “comment likewise pertains to the prayer of the Solicitor General for the issuance of a (temporary restraining order) […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set Tuesday to announce his plans for the HS2 high-speed railway, with reports suggesting he will stick with the long-running project despite soaring costs. HS2, which would quicken rail journeys between London in southeast England and cities to the north of the capital, has been dogged by controversy owing to projected spiraling costs and damage to wildlife. It is forecast that the project, aimed […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The two most senior health officials at the epicenter of China’s deadly virus outbreak has been sacked, state media said Tuesday, as pressure mounts over the way local authorities have handled the epidemic. Zhang Jin, the Communist Party boss of the provincial health commission in Hubei, and its director Liu Yingzi have been removed from their positions, reported state broadcaster CCTV, after a decision by the province’s party committee Monday. The […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Tuesday, Feb. 11, ordered the Philippine National Police to arrest those behind the dissemination of fake news on the novel coronavirus. Año issued the order after an infographic allegedly coming from the Department of the Interior and Local Government showed the government had banned travelers from 23 countries affected by the 2019-nCoV. The Philippine government has so far only banned travel to and from mainland China, Hong […]
by Marie WOLFROM Agence France Presse A British man managed to pass on the coronavirus to at least 11 other people without ever setting foot in the epicentre of the outbreak in China, in an infectious journey that shows how the deadly virus can spread rapidly around a globalised world. The adult British citizen, who has not been named publicly, caught the virus while attending a conference in Singapore and then passed it on […]
by Martin Abbugao SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Asia’s biggest air show opens in Singapore Tuesday under the shadow of a deadly coronavirus outbreak that has prompted dozens of companies to withdraw and threatens to hammer the aviation industry. The biennial Singapore Airshow attracts hundreds of global aerospace firms and airlines to the financial hub, where they negotiate multi-million dollar deals and watch spectacular aerial displays by fighter jets. But the virus — which has killed […]
