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(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Jan. 29, said he would tell his Cabinet members not to go to the US in the meantime. “Yung mga Cabinet member, I will ask them not to go to the US. In the meantime. Parang boycott,” Duterte told reporters. The President issued the statement after the US’ cancellation of Senator Ronald dela Rosa’s US visa. Dela Rosa believes the cancellation was due to his role in the […]
(Eagle News)–Over 1000 have passed the January 2020 Architecture Licensure Exam, the Professional Regulation Commission said. The 1,242 who passed the exams held in Manila, Baguio, Cebu, Davao, Legazpi and Zamboanga last January 24 and January 26 represent 55.7 percent of the 2229 who took them. Rhicel Gonzales Sapasap of Saint Louis University topped the tests with a rating of 84 percent. In second place were University of the Philippines-Diliman alumna Megan Joyce Herrera Cruz […]
(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has instructed the Bureau of Corrections to implement the Ombudsman’s dismissal of three of the bureau’s officials over the Good Conduct Time Allowance-for-sale scheme. According to Guevarra, he gave the instruction for the order against Ramoncito Roque, officer in charge of the BuCor’s inmates documents processing unit; Mabel Bansil; and Veronica Buño to be implemented “without prejudice to the resolution of any appeal that the respondents may take.” Guevarra said […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Wednesday, Jan. 29, said it “might be difficult” to repatriate Filipinos from Wuhan, China. He said this was because “we might even be risking them to contamination.” “The best way, I suppose, is to let them stay there and follow protocols in China,” he said. Panelo issued the remark after the Department of Health said Filipinos there could return to the Philippines for as long as they undergo a […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) Super Rugby on Wednesday announced it will monitor air quality at venues and cancel games if smoke from Australia’s unprecedented bushfires presents a safety risk. The tournament’s organizing body SANZAAR, said a panel of experts would look into any troubling forecasts, Air Quality Index or particulate readings and other warning signs and make recommendations about games going ahead. The ultimate decision to cancel a match will lie with SANZAAR’s executive committee, the body’s […]
(Eagle News)–Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the country today, Jan. 29. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley will have cloudy skies with light rains as the northeast monsoon affects Northern Luzon. PAGASA said Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Visayas and Mindanao will have […]
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AFP) — Papua New Guinea shut air and seaports to all foreign travellers coming from Asia on Wednesday, in a desperate bid to prevent the deadly coronavirus from reaching the impoverished Melanesian nation. In a note to airlines and boat operators, the ministry of immigration said “all citizens originating from the Asian ports will be refused entry to the country effective today”. The ministry also announced that Papua New Guinea’s […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday its first case of the new coronavirus, in a family from Wuhan, in what is thought to be the first confirmed case in the Middle East. “The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention announced a case of the new coronavirus affecting people from one family coming from the city of Wuhan in China,” the state news agency WAM reported, without saying how many […]
(Eagle News) – China and the World Health Organization (WHO) both agreed to have international experts visit the country which is now at the center of the deadly 2019 novel coronavirus that has so far claimed more than 130 lives. This was the consensus in a meeting held on Tuesday, Jan. 28, between WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. The two officials “shared the latest information on […]
(Eagle News) –Over 30 percent of Filipinos said their lives improved in the last 12 months, a Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS said the 39 percent of Filipinos who said this, as opposed to the 21 percent of Filipinos who said their lives worsened yielded a net gainers score of +18. The net gainers score, or the result of subtracting those who said their lives improved and those who said it worsened, the […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Transportation has suspended two more emission test centers for alleged falsification of test results. In an advisory, the DOTr said it issued a 90-day preliminary suspension order against the following: 1. NAGOLAP EMISSION TESTING CENTER in Brgy. Maligaya, Yumauini, Isabela 2. SARREAL EMISSION TESTING CENTER in Betterlife Subd., Tanzang Luma III, Imus City, Cavite The DOTr said the order was issued against the private emission test centers through the agency’s Investigation […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Scientists in Australia have successfully replicated the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, in what they said would be a “game changer” in the fight against a deadly epidemic which has stricken thousands. The Doherty Institute in Melbourne announced Wednesday that it had grown the novel coronavirus in cell culture from a patient sample, the first time the virus has been replicated outside China. “Having the real virus means we now have the […]
