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by Eva Xiao and Ryan McMorrow BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s premier warned Tuesday that the country faces a “tough struggle” as he unveiled tax cuts to prop up a stuttering economy while increasing military spending to nearly $180 billion. The slowdown and US trade war have become major challenges for President Xi Jinping, a year after becoming the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong with the abolition of term limits and etching of […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The death toll from last week’s collapsed gold mine in northern Indonesia has risen to 16, as hopes to find survivors fade, an official said Wednesday. Eighteen people have been pulled alive but injured from the illegal mine on Sulawesi island, but it is unclear how many were inside when the accident happened last Tuesday. Painstaking rescue efforts have been hampered by steep terrain, unstable soil and dangerously narrow mining shafts. […]
(Eagle News)—-Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde on Wednesday, March 6, sacked a police director and a chief of police following the arrest of some of their men for alleged extortion. Relieved were Eastern Police director Brigadier General Bernabe Balba and Pasay City Police Station commander Colonel Noel Flores for command responsibility. Their relief took place after Corporal Marlo Siblao Quibete of the EPD’s Drug Enforcement Unit was nabbed for allegedly extorting cash from one Eva […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration has arrested a Russian wanted for fraud in his home country. In a statement, the BI said Anton Likharev, 37, was arrested at the tourist visa section at the agency headquarters in Manila on Tuesday, March 5, after he tried to extend his temporary visitor’s visa. The BI said Likharev, who had been staying in the country since 2016, was wanted in Russia for “large-scale crimes involving acquisition of other people’s property […]
(Eagle News)–A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Surigao del Sur on Wednesday, March 6. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake struck 102 kilometers northeast of Hinatuan at 8:12 a.m. The quake, which was of tectonic origin, had a depth of 14 kilometers. Intensity IV was felt in Bislig City, while an Intensity II was felt in Davao City. According to PHIVOLCS, no damage was expected. Aftershocks, however, were expected.
(Eagle News)–Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has ordered the military to validate a report Filipino fishermen were harassed by Chinese vessels near Pag-Asa Island in the West Philippine Sea. In a statement, Lorenzana said that while there has been “no substantiated report” on the supposed incident reported by Kalayaan, Palawan Mayor Roberto del Mundo from the Western Command, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, “through the Naval Forces West under WESCOM, will nonetheless continuously validate and report […]
(Eagle News)—-National Capital Region Police Office chief Guillermo Eleazar on Wednesday, March 6, relieved all members of the drug enforcement unit of a Pasay police station following the arrest of a policeman allegedly involved in kidnap-for-ransom activities. Relieved after the arrest of Police Corporal Anwar Encarnacion Nasser by the Counter-Intelligence Task Force in an entrapment operation early in the day, around 4 a.m., were members of the Pasay police station 1 drug unit. Nasser’s three […]
(Eagle News) — Zamboanga City, and four towns of North Cotabato have been placed under a state of calamity because of the effects of El Niño, or long dry spell, that is affecting the local agricultural sector. The City council approved the declaration for the state of calamity in Zamboanga City after the recommendation made by the City Disaster Risk Risk Reduction and Management Council. Vice Mayor Cesar Iturralde said that the dry spell affected […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, March 6, said Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor Ben Diokno did not need to get the approval of the Commission on Appointments after all. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement a day after he said the Palace was confident Diokno would get the nod of the CA for his appointment. “After further evaluation of relevant laws and jurisprudence surrounding the appointment of former Secretary of Budget and Management Benjamin […]
by Martyn WOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Jorge Lorenzo concedes he could have “thrown in the towel” after a frustrating two-year spell at Ducati, but the three-time MotoGP champion feels rejuvenated and once again ready to challenge the supremacy of title-holder Marc Marquez — his new Honda stablemate. Marquez has taken the sport by storm since his 2013 debut in the top category, winning the championship in five of the past six seasons, with fellow […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the public’s right to know transcended whatever rights to privacy and presumption of innocence that national and local candidates have, as it justified the government’s plan to release next week the so-called narco list of politicians. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that it is also wrong for candidates involved in illegal activities to stop the release of the narco-list which was prepared with the help of wiretapped information […]
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AFP) — A nine-year-old male lion mauled its owner to death in a village in the east of the Czech Republic on Tuesday morning, police said. “I can confirm the breeder is dead,” regional police spokeswoman Lenka Javorkova told AFP, adding the circumstances of the incident were under investigation. The 34-year-old breeder kept two lions, a two-year-old female and the male, without the required veterinary licence and in an enclosure built without […]
