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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian stocks sank Wednesday, tracking losses in Europe and on Wall Street as investors grew anxious about a possible economic slowdown and the absence of any progress in resolving the US-China trade war. Economists say the trade dispute between the world’s top two economic superpowers will have grim implications for consumers, who will have to bear the costs of punitive tit-for-tat tariffs. Although an index of US consumer confidence on […]
Washington, United States (AFP) — For Chinese artist Guo O Dong, the simple black Samsung laptop computer, loaded with six potent viruses, symbolizes one of the world’s most frightening threats. On Tuesday his creation “The Persistence of Chaos” rocked the art world, selling for more than $1.3 million in a New York online auction. There’s nothing special about the 2008 10-inch Netbook, running Microsoft’s now-outdated Windows XP. But loaded onto its memory chips are the […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, May 29, denied the trip to Japan of some members of the Cabinet was a reward for them, following the results of the midterm elections that were overwhelmingly favorable to the administration. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the Palace “does not share the position or remarks” of Ambassador to Japan Jose Laurel V. According to Panelo, in the first place, Cabinet members were prohibited by the President […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace has declared June 5 a regular holiday in the country. The declaration contained in Proclamation No. 729 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea was in observance of Eid’l Fitr or the Feast of Ramadan for Muslims. The proclamation said this was upon recommendation of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos. Eid’l Fitr is celebrated by Muslims three days after the end of the month of their fasting.
SHENZHEN, China (AFP) –Huawei said Wednesday the tech giant will ask a US court to throw out US legislation that bars federal agencies from buying its products. The company was due to file the motion for summary judgment on Tuesday (Wednesday in China), said Song Liuping, the firm’s legal officer, in a statement carried by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. “The bill directly determines that Huawei is guilty and imposed a large number of restrictions on […]
by Paavan MATHEMA KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Former Gurkha soldier Nirmal Purja remains on target to conquer the world’s 14 highest mountains in a record-breaking seven months despite death-defying queues on the biggest peak of them all. Waiting for more than seven hours last week to get to the top of Everest and then back to the safety of his camp — in a pile-up that he documented in a photo that has gone viral […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ohio residents inspected destroyed homes and debris-strewn streets Tuesday after powerful tornadoes ripped through the US state overnight, killing at least one person and causing widespread damage and power outages. One twister that barreled through the city of Dayton left 80,000 people without power as day broke, the city’s assistant fire chief Nicholas Hosford told ABC News. “We have homes flattened, entire apartment complexes destroyed, businesses throughout our community where […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Disney’s “Aladdin” soared at the North American box office over the holiday weekend raking in nearly $117 million and leading all other offerings, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Tuesday. The film, released on the American four-day Memorial Day weekend, earned $116.8 million from Friday through Monday and $91.5 million from Friday to Sunday, well beyond earlier estimates of around $80 million. The live-action movie, directed by Guy Ritchie, stars […]
by Ryland JAMES BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s favored successor was swept into a new storm Tuesday, with her apparent call for limits to free speech around elections stoking further anger rather than putting down a raging youth-led YouTube revolt. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s call for “rules” for online media around election-time came after her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its center-left coalition partner SPD suffered their worst scores in Sunday’s European parliamentary vote. […]
by M JEGATHESAN PORT KLANG, Malaysia (AFP) — Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said Tuesday, insisting the country did not want to be a global dumping ground. Around 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), with much of it ending up in landfill or polluting the seas, in what is becoming a growing […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs-Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS) announced through a press release that the 2019 Philippine Midterm Elections recorded the highest number of overseas voter turnout since the Overseas Voting Act was signed into law in 2003. It has to be noted that the 2019 elections can be seen as the culminating activity belonging to a three-year cycle, beginning with the voter registration in 2016, six months after the Presidential elections. […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that “burn-out” remains an “occupational phenomenon” that could lead someone to seek care but it is not considered a medical condition. The clarification came a day after the WHO mistakenly said it had listed burn-out in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD) for the first time. The World Health Assembly, WHO’s main annual meeting which wraps up on Tuesday, approved at the weekend the […]
