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BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Thailand has reopened the cave where 12 young footballers and their coach were trapped last year in a saga that captivated the world. The Tham Luang cave has been closed to visitors since the Wild Boars football team were rescued alive after nearly three weeks inside the grotto’s waterlogged corridors. But the world-famous cave in northern Chiang Rai province was re-opened Friday, drawing some 2,000 tourists in a single day, […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James had a triple double and Danny Green hit a buzzer beater to force overtime as the Los Angeles Lakers stunned the Dallas Mavericks 119-110 on Friday. James, a 15-time all star, finished with a season high 39 points and added 16 assists and 12 rebounds for the Lakers. “After the injury last year I wasn’t myself,” said James. “I heard it all. I heard it all […]
(Eagle News) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) started its “Lingap sa Mamamayan” (Aid to Humanity) to help people affected by the successive quakes that hit several areas in Mindanao. In these photos taken by Eagle News Service correspondents in Mindanao, it shows the INC Lingap sa Mamamayan activities in full swing on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in the areas severely affected by the series of Mindanao quakes. Thousands of goodwill […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese conglomerate Fosun has snapped up the Thomas Cook brand for £11 million ($14.2 million), weeks after the renowned British travel group went bust and left hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers stranded abroad. Thomas Cook’s demise in September sparked 22,000 job losses worldwide and triggered Britain’s biggest repatriation since World War II, with the government paying to fly home 140,000 tourists. The 178-year-old British institution declared bankruptcy in September after an […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Major state telecom operators are rolling out 5G wireless advances in China as the country races to close a technology gap with the United States amid a bruising trade war. The new-generation telecommunication networks move data at blazing speeds, promising economic and technological advantages to countries where they are deployed. US regulators earlier this week proposed rules to block telecom carriers from buying from Chinese tech companies Huawei […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam said Saturday that it “strongly condemns” human trafficking, after British police confirmed 39 people found dead in a truck last week are believed to be Vietnamese. Most of the victims are thought to come from central Vietnam, where easy-to-find brokers help to arrange trips to Europe — often via Russia — for migrants hoping to earn money overseas. The extreme risks of the journeys were laid bare after eight […]
(Eagle News)–Transportation Secretary Art Tugade recently took public transportation and made unannounced visits in various terminals and offices. Grab driver Sherwin Balolong said in a Facebook post on Friday, Nov. 1, that Tugade was his passenger the day before. His post was accompanied by a picture of himself inside the vehicle, with Tugade and two others seated at the back. According to Balolong, Tugade’s group told him they took the bus from Alabang to Makati […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump announced Friday that a senior department official, Chad Wolf, would become the nation’s new acting homeland security chief, a role at the center of his crackdown on undocumented immigration. Asked to confirm rumors that Wolf, a department undersecretary, would assume the role, Trump told reporters: “Well he’s right now acting and we’ll see what happens. We have great people in there.” Trump announced the resignation of […]
(Eagle News)–A rainfall advisory has been hoisted over parts of Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said moderate to occasionally heavy rains are expected over Calanasan, Luna and in Santa Marcela in Apayao; and in Alcala, Amulung, Claveria and Sanchez Mira in Cagayan. Light to moderate rains are expected in Alcala, Camalanuigan, Iguig, Aparri and Tuguegarao in Cagayan. Moderate to occasionally heavy rains, on the other hand, are being experienced over […]
(Eagle News)–An earthquake struck Tulunan, Cotabato anew on Saturday, Nov. 2. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, a 3.2 magnitude one and of tectonic origin, hit 24 kilometers northeast of the town at 9:48 a.m. Depth of focus was 26 kilometers. An intensity III was reported in Kidapawan, which felt the tremor at an instrumental intensity II. No damage to property nor aftershocks were expected. The quake came two days after […]
by Catherine TRIOMPHE Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — After years of flying south for the winter Donald Trump is making his Florida nest permanent, breaking with the city that molded his persona in a decision that’s left most fellow New Yorkers unmoved. “Good riddance” appeared the collective take on the billionaire’s announcement late Thursday that he would not return to his gilded three-level penthouse in Manhattan after his presidential tenure […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Nov. 2, condemned the “bogus” report that said President Rodrigo Duterte was ordered by the Thai king to behave, a move the Palace described as the “latest black propaganda waged by the President’s fierce and unthinking critics and detractors.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the release of the report was “malicious and deliberate” as it came upon Duterte’s arrival in Thailand. “These raucous anti-Duterte forces should be […]
