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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The world’s biggest shipbuilder, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in ailing number two Daewoo from the government, Seoul said Thursday. The world’s top three shipbuilders are South Korean — Samsung Heavy ranks third — but the industry has been hammered in recent years by overcapacity and plunging ship prices. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has struggled in particular and has repeatedly […]
Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Inilabas na ng Quezon City Police District ang facial composite sketch ng isa sa mga suspek sa pagpatay kay Barangay Bagong Silangan chair Crisell Beltran. Ayon sa witness, tinatayang nasa 5’4 hangang 5’5 ang taas ito, payat ang pangangatawan at kayumanggi ang balat. Ayon sa inisyal na imbestigasyon, nasa apat na lalaki na sakay ng dalawang motorsiklo ang humarang sa sport utility vehicle ni Beltran noong Miyerkules, ika-30 ng Enero, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nintendo said Thursday its net profit jumped nearly 25 percent for the nine months to December, riding out the crucial holiday season thanks to blockbuster game titles for its popular Switch console. The Kyoto-based games giant said its bottom-line profit rose 24.9 percent to 168.8 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for the April-December period on sales of 997.3 billion yen, up 16.4 percent. “During the holiday season, software was a great driver […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday said that net profit surged 80 percent to $23.4 billion in 2018, thanks to higher oil prices and cost cuts. Profit after tax had come in at almost $13 billion in 2017, Shell said in a statement. “We delivered on our promises for the year, including the completion of the $30 billion divestment program and starting up key growth projects while maintaining discipline on capital […]
by Nova SAFO Agence France-Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — A brutal cold wave moved eastward Thursday after bringing temperatures in the US Midwest lower than those in Antarctica, grounding flights, closing schools and businesses and raising fears of hypothermia. The extreme weather has now been blamed for as many as eight deaths, US news outlets reported. Mail deliveries were suspended and people were encouraged to stay home in nearly a dozen US states where […]
(Eagle News) — Pipilitin ng mga otoridad na mas mapabuti pa ang pangalawang bugso ng Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) Plebiscite sa darating na Pebrero 6. Ayon kay Western Mindanao Command spokesperson Col. Gerry Besana, kung may mga problema mang naranasan sa nakaraang plebisito noong Enero 21 ay pipilitin nilang maiwasan ito para sa ikaaayos ng halalan. Kasabay nito sinabi ni Besana na handang-handa na ang buong puwersa ng Wesmincom katuwang ang Philippine National Police at […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Jan. 31, condemned as “deplorable” the killings of a National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant and a Quezon City barangay chair. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo urged a “speedy and impartial investigation” into the killings of NDFP consultant Randy Malayao and Barangay Bagong Silangan chair Crisell Beltran, saying “everyone must be accountable before the law.” “Politics or differences in ideology or religion can never be […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police has cleared the four men who were earlier linked to the Jolo, Sulu blasts. Senior Supt. Bernard Banac, PNP spokesperson, said Alshaber Arbi, 18; Gerry Isnajil; Alsimar Mohammad Albi, 24; and Julius Abdulzam Albi, 17; who all figured in footage from a closed-circuit television camera at the blasts site, were released on Wednesday night. Authorities earlier said they were members of the Ajang-Ajang group of the Abu Sayyaf, […]
(Eagle News) — The military clashed with alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf’s Ajang-Ajang group, which has been tagged as a suspect in the Jolo, Sulu blasts that killed at least 21 over the weekend. In a statement, the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Western Mindanao Command said the clash between soldiers of the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion and around 20 members of the group under Macrin took place at 7:20 a.m. in Barangay Latih, Patikul, Sulu. […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia on Thursday installed a new king, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, after the last monarch abdicated in a historic first following his reported marriage to a Russian ex-beauty queen. In a ceremony steeped in pomp and centuries of tradition, the sports-loving sultan, dressed in aqua blue formal wear, took the oath of office at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur. The ceremony was televised nationally and attended by Prime […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has suspended a lawyer for what it said were his “underhanded tactics” against former Presidential Spokesperson and now-senatorial candidate Harry Roque. In a seven-page decision penned by Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe, the SC imposed the two-year suspension on Atty. Rizal P. Balbin after he was found guilty of violating several canons and rule 19.01 of the Code of Professional Responsibility when he threatened to file baseless and administrative and criminal […]
(Eagle News) — For the Palace, a “reenacted budget as a result of budget impasse” will ultimately hurt the country’s economy. In a statement issued on Thursday, Jan. 31, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said it would, after all, “translate to lost opportunities for higher growth..” He said economic managers were “estimating a loss of 1 to 2.3 percentage points in the full-year gross domestic product” in the event the 2019 budget is not passed. He […]
