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(Eagle News) — Sinalakay ng pinagsanib pwersa ng Quezon City Police District Station 7 kasama ang Taguig City Police at National Capital Region Police Office-Regional Drug Enforcement Unit ang isang apartment unit sa Brgy. Central Signal, Taguig City Miyerkules ng gabi, Pebrero 20. Nakatanggap kasi ng impormasyon ang QCPD Station 7 na dito nagtatago at nagmumula ang mga shabu na isinusuplay sa Cubao area sa Quezon City. Agad na nagsagawa drug buy-bust operation ang operatiba […]
by Shafiqul ALAM Agence France-Presse DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 70 people were killed when fire tore through crumbling apartment blocks in a historic part of Dhaka, setting off a chain of explosions and a wall of flames down nearby streets, officials said Thursday. It started in one building where chemicals for deodorants and other household uses were illegally stored and spread at lightning speed to four nearby buildings, the fire service said. People […]
(Eagle News) — Asahan na ang mas mainit na summer season ngayong taon dahil sa epekto ng El Niño. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services (PAGASA), aabot sa 38.2 degree Celsius ang magiging temperatura sa Metro Manila sa oras na magsimula ang panahon ng tagtuyot o El Niño. Papatak naman sa mahigit 40 degrees Celsius ang maaaring maging temperatura sa lungsod ng Tuguegarao, Cagayan. Inaasahan din na mararamdaman ang epekto ng El Niño […]
(Eagle News) — Chinese ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua was “impressed” with the “professionalism and restraint” shown by the policeman who was thrown a cup of taho by a Chinese national only recently. This was according to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who spoke to reporters in a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 21. According to Panelo, during his courtesy call on Wednesday, Feb. 20, Zhao “extended his greeting and commendation” to P01 William Cristobal. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks turned down Thursday after three days of gains as investors found few fresh buying pegs after dovish signals from the US central bank. The Nikkei 225 index opened slightly higher as Wall Street stocks edged up, following cues from the Federal Reserve. But the Tokyo benchmark soon fell into negative territory and lost 0.27 percent or 58.93 points to 21,372.56 in the first 30 minutes of trade. The broader Topix […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law the expanded maternity leave bill. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said the bill was signed into law by Duterte on Wednesday, Feb. 20, before the 30-day deadline within which proposed measures should have been acted on before they lapse into laws. Under the version approved by Congress, the number of paid maternity leaves was increased to 105 from the current 60 paid leaves for normal delivery, and 78 […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets were mixed Thursday after the Federal Reserve left open the possibility it could lift interest rates this year, while investors kept an optimistic eye on China-US trade talks. Equities and other risk assets have enjoyed a stellar start to the year on hopes for the negotiations as well as expectations the US central bank will slow its pace of monetary tightening — with some even tipping a cut […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A man with a history of mental illness wounded 11 people with a knife after attacking random pedestrians in central China, local authorities said Thursday. The suspect, a 33-year-old man named Guo Kaibin, is already in police custody, according to a social media notice posted by police in Ji’an, a city in central Jiangxi province. Citing Guo’s family, local authorities said that the attacker had a history of mental illness. While […]
(Eagle News) — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has moved the closure date of the Tandang Sora flyover to March 2. The new schedule of closure is several days later than the original date, Feb. 23. MMDA General Manager Jojo Garcia’s announcement came after the Quezon City council requested for the additional week for the local government to conduct the necessary preparations. “Itong one week na ibinigay po ay malaking tulong para iset forth ang lahat ng […]
by Emily Manuel Contributor, Eagle News (Eagle News) — A delegation of the Russian motorbike club “Night Wolves” is now in the Philippines to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first arrival of Russians in Tubabao island, Samar in 1949, and to spread goodwill and friendship in the country. The group paid a courtesy call to Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev and held a press conference at the ambassador’s residence in Makati City […]
(Eagle News) — The World Health Organization lauded the Philippines for passing the Universal Health Care Law that seeks to ensure Filipinos’ equal access to quality healthcare. In a statement, the WHO said the new law was a “critical step” to ensure “major reforms to consolidate existing yet fragmented financial flows, increase the fiscal space for benefit delivery, improve the governance and performance of devolved local health systems and institutionalize support mechanisms such as health […]
by Shafiqul Alam DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 69 people have died in a huge blaze that tore through apartment buildings also used as chemical warehouses in an old part of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, fire officials said Thursday. Dozens of people were trapped in the buildings, unable to escape onto narrow streets clogged with traffic, as the highly combustible stores of chemicals, body sprays and plastic granules erupted in flames. Fire control room […]
