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(Eagle News)—Over P500 million worth of fuel subsidy cards have been distributed to jeepney franchise owners under the government’s Pantawid Pasada Program, the Department of Transportation said. According to the DOTr, the P511,145,000 worth of cards which translates to 102229 cards was as of April 11. Each card contains a P5000 fuel subsidy. The program was conceptualized to cushion the effects of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion law.
(Eagle News)—The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has hoisted a yellow alert on the Luzon grid anew, after lifting the same hours before. The NGCP said in a Facebook post the alert was in place on Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The cause for the re-hoisting of the alert, which means reserves are less than the capacity of the biggest plant online, or […]
(Eagle News)—-The Department of Public Works and Highways has released a list of roads that are scheduled to undergo reblocking and repair. The following roads are scheduled to undergo the same from Friday, April 12, at 11 p.m. to Monday, April 15 at 5 a.m. EDSA: southbound from New York Street before Monte de Piedad, 1st lane from sidewalk northbound between White Plains Subdivision Gate 4, second lane northbound, 50 meters after Magallanes MRT to […]
(Eagle News)—–A 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck Masbate on Saturday, April 13. The quake hit 11 kilometers east of Masbate at 5:34 a.m., the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. According to PHIVOLCS, the depth of focus of the quake, which was of tectonic origin, was 1 kilometers. An intensity II and an instrumental intensity II were reported in Masbate. No damage to property nor aftershocks were expected.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court Friday turned down a request to open a war crimes probe in Afghanistan, a week after Washington revoked the court’s chief prosecutor’s visa over the case. “The judges decided that an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan at this stage would not serve the interests of justice,” the Hague-based court said in a statement. Fatou Bensouda’s US visa was revoked over a possible […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami warning and sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes. The quake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 17 kilometres (10 miles) off the east coast of Sulawesi island, the USGS said, where a 7.5-magnitude quake-tsunami around the city of Palu killed more than 4,300 people last year. Indonesia’s geophysics agency issued […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte was unable to attend the PDP-Laban campaign rally in Marawi due to bad weather, the party said. According to Ron Munsayac, PDP-Laban spokesperson, Duterte’s helicopter “wasn’t given clearance to take off from Davao City.” Munsayac said despite Duterte’s absence, “we can still consider the Marawi City rally a successful one since most of the party’s senatoriables were able to personally meet and deliver their messages to our partymates, leaders, and supporters” […]
(Eagle News) – More than P65 million worth of counterfeit products, including boxes of fake DVDs, cellphones, watches, shoes and bags, as well as cigarettes, were destroyed in Camp Crame, Quezon City on Friday, April 12. The event led by the National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights was done as part of the activities for the celebration of Intellectual Property Rights month this April. There were also fake medicines that were confiscated and destroyed […]
(Eagle News)—At least 12 Abu Sayyaf bandits were killed in several clashes with the military on Thursday, April 11, in Sulu. The Western Mindanao Command said the first clash was between the group led by Radullan Sahiron and Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan and the 32nd Infantry in Sitio Bud Taming, Barangay Panglayahan, Patikul. Past 3 p.m., members of the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion engaged 80 Abu Sayyaf members led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan and Almujer Yadah […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, April 12, skipped the PDP-Laban campaign in Marawi. The Palace has yet to say why this was. Duterte was present in PDP-Laban’s campaign rally in Bacolod the day before. He spoke before a bullet-proof glass, the second time since he started campaigning for his candidates. The Palace has refused to release a medical bulletin of the President, who is in his 70s, saying the chief executive himself would inform […]
(Eagle News) — A sudden heavy downpour that occurred at around 2 in the afternoon on Friday, April 12, 2019 flooded a portion of Mindanao Avenue going to Valenzuela City with knee-deep waters that only trucks and large vehicles could pass through. At the time that Eagle News Service correspondent Eric Jabonero took the photo at 2:15 p.m., a motorcycle was stuck in the flood water, after it stalled because of the knee-deep water. The […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia said Friday a major Chinese-backed railway had been revived following a deal to cut costs, lifting a suspension slapped on the project when a corruption-plagued regime lost power last year. The railway was among several infrastructure projects in Malaysia supported by Beijing but put on hold after the shock defeat of a coalition that had ruled the country for six decades. Critics said the projects lacked transparency, could […]
