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by Jim SLATER OAKLAND, United States (AFP) — Golden State Warriors investor Mark Stevens was fined $500,000 and banned from NBA games or team activities for a year for shoving and cursing at Toronto guard Kyle Lowry in an NBA Finals game, the league announced Thursday. But the punishment doesn’t go as far as Lowry wants, the Raptors playmaker saying he wants Stevens out of the league for his actions in Toronto’s 123-109 game-three victory […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Northern Samar on Thursday night. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit 50 kilometers northwest of Pambujan at 10:15 p.m. Depth of focus is 21 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–An Intertropical Convergence Zone is affecting Palawan and Mindanao today, June 7. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as a result, Davao Region, SOCCSKSARGEN, Bangsamoro, Zamboanga and Palawan will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms. Flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Bicol, Visayas, the rest of Mimaropa and the rest of Mindanao, on the other hand, will have partly cloudy to […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, June 6, said he was serious when he threatened to declare war against Canada if the North American country did not recall its trash. “Sabi ko sa kanila, isauli ko ‘yan, ‘pag hindi tayo nagkaintindihan I will declare war.. Akala naman siguro nitong – well sa media. Braggadocio. Hambog ba. Hindi man nila ako kilala,” Duterte said in Davao. According to Duterte, “it’s a matter of respect.” “Kung gawain […]
(Eagle News)–The PhilHealth-accredited healthcare provider WellMed Dialysis Center denied on Thursday, June 6, the allegations of two of its former employees that it was processing claims of dead patients. “WellMed and its owners did not and would not, in any way, consent to, or participate in any ‘ghost dialysis’ or fraudulent scheme as described by Mr. Roberto,” WellMed’s legal team Gargantiel Ilagan & Atanante said in a statement. The law firm was referring to Edwin […]
(Eagle News)–The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will close its Manila office on July 5 due to “insufficient workload,” the US embassy in Manila said. According to the US Embassy, this was because the USCIS will “transition Forms I-407 and I-130 to domestic and electronic processing, respectively.” “These two form types account for approximately 65% of the office’s workload,” the embassy said. The embassy said apart from the Manila field office, the USCIS office […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace has declared June 24 a special non-working holiday in Manila. The declaration was contained in Proclamation 731 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea. According to the proclamation, this was to give the people of the city the “full opportunity to celebrate and participate” in activities relating to the city’s 448th founding anniversary. Manila was founded in 1571.
(Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has ordered Grab Philippines to explain the deactivation of around 8,000 of its transport network vehicle service units for their failure to secure provisional authority to operate. The order was contained in a show-cause order issued to the transport network company, which was also ordered to appear before the Board on June 11, or a day after Grab said the units would have been already deactivated. According […]
(Eagle News)–The vote-counting machines that were used in the May 13 elections have yielded a record-high 99.99 percent accuracy, a random audit showed. The team that conducted the audit said the score, which covers 711 clustered precincts, was the highest since the country implemented automated elections in 2010. That year, the machines yielded an accuracy of 99.58 percent. In 2013 and 2016, the machines showed a 99.9747 % and 99.9027 % accuracy, respectively. The results […]
Lopez also perpetually barred from getting license, fined (Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Office has revoked the license of the motorist who posted a video and pictures of himself driving a car from the front passenger seat. In a statement, the LTO said Luis Miguel Lopez, also known as Miko Lopez, was also perpetually barred from getting a driver’s license, and is required to pay penalties for multiple violations ranging from P1,000 to P5,000. Based on […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine goverment has sent a pair of Philippine eagles to Singapore under a Wildlife Loan Agreement (WLA) between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) on Tuesday, June 4, marking the first-ever overseas loan of Philippine eagles. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the pair named Geothermica, a 15-year-old male Philippine eagle, and Sambisig, a 17-year old female eagle, will be provided […]
(Eagle News)–A 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Occidental on Thursday, June 6. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit 191 kilometers southeast of Sarangani at 1:36 p.m. Depth of focus was 106 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
