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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets rose early Thursday as details were released of the China-US trade deal signed in Washington, with analysts saying it would allow investors to turn their focus to the global outlook and earnings season. After years of painstaking on-off talks between the economic superpowers, Donald Trump finally put pen to paper on an agreement that lowers tensions between the two and provides a major boost to the global outlook. […]
(Eagle News)–Several flights on Thursday, Jan. 16, were cancelled due to bad weather. Below is a list, according to the Manila International Airport Authority: (DG) Cebgo DG 6177 Manila to Masbate DG 6178 Masbate to Manila The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services said the tail-end of a cold front and the northeast monsoon, among others, will bring rains in parts of the country today.
(Eagle News) — At least six people died after a fire hit a residential area in Manila on Thursday, Jan. 16. Authorities said the fatalities in the blaze that hit houses at the corner of Katamanan and Yuseco Streets in Tondo at 2:38 a.m. included a mother and her three children. The fire reached the third alarm and was put out at 7:14 a.m. Around 20 houses were reportedly destroyed.
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A trade deal signed Wednesday between Washington and Beijing has “considerably addressed the concerns” of both sides, said Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, as the world’s two biggest economies marked a truce in the lingering trade impasse. Liu, who led negotiations for Beijing, added in a briefing with Chinese media that the freshly-inked “phase one” deal bears both economic and political significance, reported the official Xinhua news agency. The US and […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the release of a gratuity pay for job order and contractual workers in government last year. According to Administrative Order 20 , all job order and contractual workers in national government agencies, state universities and colleges, government-owned or-controlled corporations and local water districts who have rendered at least four months of “satisfactory performance of services” as of December 15, 2019 may receive the pay not exceeding P3,000 each. […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A new virus from the same family as the deadly SARS pathogen could have been spread between family members in the Chinese city of Wuhan, local authorities said Wednesday. The outbreak, which has killed one person, has caused alarm because of the link with SARS (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed 349 people in mainland China and another 299 in Hong Kong in 2002-2003. One of the 41 patients reported in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A case of the mystery respiratory infection related to the potentially deadly SARS virus, which first emerged in China, has been confirmed in Japan, authorities said Thursday. It appears to be only the second time the novel coronavirus has been detected outside China after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed a case in Thailand. Japan’s health ministry said a man who had visited Wuhan, the apparent epicenter of the outbreak, was […]
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Search teams found the bodies of 14 people buried by avalanches and heavy snowfall in Pakistani-administered Kashmir Wednesday, with harsh weather hampering rescuers as they race to find any survivors, officials said. The death toll from days of bad weather now stands at 76 in Kashmir, and at least 100 across the country, according to a statement from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Most were killed in Kashmir’s picturesque Neelum […]
(Eagle News) — The provincial board of Cavite has placed the province, which is reeling from the effects of Taal’s volcanic activity, under a state of calamity. The board did this through Resolution No. 1389-2020, the passage of which was announced on Wednesday, Jan. 15, by the provincial government in its official Facebook page. According to the provincial government, so far, eight barangays of Tagaytay City were classified as “highly susceptible to greater damage in […]
KLANG, Malaysia (AFP) – Patrick Lee Scooping waste from a Malaysian river to stop it reaching the sea, a solar-powered barge named the “Interceptor” is the latest weapon in a global battle to rid the world’s waters of plastic. Trash is being dumped into seas and rivers in enormous quantities, polluting vital habitats, endangering a kaleidoscope of marine life and sullying once pristine tourist spots. Some eight million tons of plastics enter the world’s oceans […]
(Eagle News) – The damage to agriculture due to the ongoing eruption and volcanic activity of Taal Volcano has reached P577.59 million, with more than 2,700 hectares of farmlands affected by the Taal ashfall. This was according to the Department of Agriculture which updated its figures from the previous report of only P74.55 million worth of damage. The P577.59 million worth of agricultural damage is for the CALABARZON region covering the provinces of Cavite, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Issam AHMED Around a million North Pacific seabirds known as common murres died during a 2015-16 heatwave that disrupted their food supply, scientists said Wednesday, the biggest mass mortality event ever recorded among avian species. Julia Parrish, an ecologist at the University of Washington and co-author of a paper on the subject published in the journal PLOS ONE told AFP that the increased frequency of such heatwaves appeared to […]
