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(Eagle News) — Malacañang has expressed concern about the current water crisis in different parts of the country, including in Metro Manila. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the government will do all it could to solve the problem. One of the solutions they are eyeing is cloud seeding to induce rains. Panelo said that they would also probe if the government agencies involved in monitoring the water supply and its distribution in the country, particularly […]
(Eagle News)–Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol has ordered the conduct of cloud-seeding operations amid the decline in the water levels at La Mesa Dam. Piñol directed Agriculture Undersecretary Cayanan to give the order to the DA regional offices, the agriculture secretary said in a Facebook post on Monday, March 12. Piñol said Cayanan was also ordered to coordinate with the Philippine Air Force for the cloud-seeding operations over Bulacan, Pampanga and Rizal. According to Piñol, last […]
(Eagle News)—-The Department of Education on Tuesday, March 12, reminded schools to tighten their security following the brutal slay of a Grade 9 student in Cebu. In a statement, the DepEd said the Schools Division Office of Lapu-Lapu City already issued a memorandum to all public and private elementary and secondary schools to this effect. The DepEd said schools should also restrict practices for school presentations and other school-related activities until 5 p.m. only; instruct school […]
(Eagle News) – More than a thousand cases of measles were recorded in Western Visayas. Based on the data of the Department of Health, the number of suspected measles cases increased to 1,068 from January to March 7 this year. This is higher compared to the 52 reported cases in the same period last year. So far, there were four recorded deaths due to measles: three from Negros and one from Antique. Negros Occidental still has […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to meet Senate President Tito Sotto and Speaker Gloria Arroyo over issues surrounding the already-ratified national budget. Sotto made the revelation in a radio interview on Tuesday, March 12. According to Sotto, the meeting would take place on Tuesday night. He said he would also ask Senator Panfilo Lacson, Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, finance committee chair Loren Legarda, and the chief of the Legislative Budget Research and Monitoring Office, which […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Collin Sexton scored 28 points and Kevin Love tallied 16 points and 18 rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers used a balanced attack to upset the Toronto Raptors 126-101 on Monday. Cedi Osman scored 19 points and Ante Zizic had 17 for Cleveland, who had a half dozen players in double figure scoring. “That was a great win for us,” Love said. “Especially against a real good team at home. […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Tuesday, March 12, lauded the rise in satisfaction ratings of President Rodrigo Duterte, saying this was proof of the public’s “unshakeable trust” in him and the present administration. “The Palace considers this increase in satisfaction rating as a vote of public confidence and a demonstration of the people’s unshakeable trust to the present administration, which the polling firm classified as ‘very good,’” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Top US and Chinese officials held phone talks Tuesday to discuss the next steps in trade negotiations, Chinese state media said, as the White House said no date has been set for a summit. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spoke with Beijing’s top economic official Liu He over the phone to discuss “key issues” on trade, the official news agency Xinhua reported. The top negotiators also […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — An oil tanker and a fishing boat collided Tuesday morning off Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, police said, sinking the fishing vessel. Thirteen people on the oil tanker — thought to be everyone on board — were found safe, a police spokeswoman told AFP. Police said they were still looking for possible missing people from the fishing boat. The size of the vessels involved in the collision — which took place […]
(Eagle News) — Another round of oil price increase took effect today, March 12, In an advisory, Shell, Petro Gazz, Caltex, Total, PTT Philippines, Jetti, Flying V, Petron and Eastern Petroleum, raised the prices of their petroleum products at 6 a.m. this morning, with an increase of 90 centavos per liter of gasoline. There is however no price movement in the prices of diesel and kerosene. This is already the fifth consecutive week of price […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — The sentencing of Australian Cardinal George Pell for child sex crimes will be broadcast live Wednesday in a rare move by the local judiciary, which had kept his trial under wraps for months with a draconian gag order. Pell, the most senior Catholic clergyman ever found guilty of child sex abuse, faces a maximum 50 years in prison for assaulting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral in 1996-97. The 77-year-old Australian […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore’s civil aviation regulator Tuesday banned the use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in its airspace following a deadly Ethiopia plane crash at the weekend. The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 went down minutes into a flight to Nairobi on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. It was the same type of jet operated by Lion Air which crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189 passengers and crew. The […]
