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(Eagle News)—Japan has renewed its vow to help the Philippines combat the “scourge of terrorism” following the twin explosions in Jolo, Sulu that killed at least 23 people. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono, in his visit to Davao, also “conveyed (Japan Prime Minister Shinzo) Abe’s grave concern over the twin explosions in Jolo, Sulu, and expressed Japan’s condemnation of the terrorism and violent extremism..” Panelo said Kono […]
by Maggy DONALDSON Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The music world hit the red carpet Sunday for the Grammys, with hip-hop royalty and a bevy of talented women leading the pack — and early awards going to top nominees Lady Gaga and Brandi Carlile. In the pre-gala ceremony in Los Angeles, at which most of the more than 80 prizes are handed out, folk rocker Carlile — this year’s most nominated woman […]
WELLINGTON, United States (AFP) — A large New Zealand wildfire is expected to burn for weeks longer but has moved away from some inhabited areas, allowing residents of an evacuated village to return home soon, firefighters said Monday. About 3,000 inhabitants of Wakefield, just outside Nelson at the top of South Island, were ordered out Saturday as flames razed bushland within two kilometers (1.2 miles) of their homes. The fire erupted early last week amid […]
(Eagle News)–The policeman who got splashed with taho by a woman who was not allowed to enter a Metro Rail Transit station with the drink because of an ongoing MRT ban on the same was honored on Monday, Feb .11. P01 William Cristobal received a Medalya ng Papuri from the Philippine National Police for his patience in dealing with Jiale Zhang, who is now facing charges over the incident at the Boni station on Saturday, […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The International Monetary Fund on Sunday warned governments to gear up for a possible economic storm as growth undershoots expectations. “The bottom-line — we see an economy that is growing more slowly than we had anticipated,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told the World Government Summit in Dubai. Last month, the IMF lowered its global economic growth forecast for this year from 3.7 percent to 3.5 percent. Lagarde cited […]
(Eagle News)–Light rains are expected over some parts of the country as the northeast monsoon continues to affect Luzon. In a weather advisory, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said cloudy skies with light rains are expected over Batanes, Cagayan, Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, Isabela and Aurora. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains, on the other hand, will prevail over Abea, Benguet, Mt .Province, Ifugao, Kalinga, Apayao, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, […]
by Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Trump administration’s new rules for a US visa program widely used for technology workers are getting cautious praise from Silicon Valley amid surging demand for high-skill employees. The H-1B visa program, which admits some 85,000 foreign nationals each year, will give higher priority to people with post-graduate degrees from US universities, under a final rule published in January by the Department of Homeland […]
(Eagle News)—A four-year-old boy was killed after a fire hit a residential area in Quezon City on Sunday, Feb .10. The fatality in the blaze in Barangay North Fairview around 9 p.m. has not been identified at press time. Around eighty houses were affected by the fire that reached the second alarm. It was put out before midnight.
(Eagle News)—The Metro Rail Transit management is slated to file separate charges against the woman who splashed taho at a police officer at an MRT station on Saturday, Feb. 9. The charges to have Jiale Zhang deported and declared an undesirable alien would be apart from the charges for direct assault, unjust vexation and disobedience to a person of authority earlier filed against her. She has been subjected to inquest proceedings at the Mandaluyong Prosecutors […]
(Eagle News)—The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board will summon the driver of the jeep that collided with a bus on the southbound lane of Edsa that injured at least 12 on Sunday, Feb. 10. In a statement, the LTFRB said it would issue the show-cause order against Ignacio Cadayday. Cadayday, according to traffic investigators crossed the intersection coming from East Ave. to Edsa in Quezon City even with the yellow traffic light on, causing it […]
(Eagle News)—The Chinese woman who threw taho at a police officer in a Metro Rail Transit 3 station on Saturday, Feb. 9, insulted not only the cop but also Filipinos in general, Vice President Leni Robredo said. In her weekly radio show, Robredo said what Jiale Zhang did to P01 William Cristobal, who was only explaining to her the MRT-3 ban on food and drinks when she refused to dispose of the taho she was […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s toppled leader Najib Razak will go on trial this week over an extraordinary financial scandal that contributed to the downfall of his long-ruling coalition and reverberated around the world. The former prime minister and his cronies are accused of stealing $4.5 billion from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB in a mind-boggling fraud that stretched from Switzerland to the Seychelles. The money was purportedly used to fund a global […]
