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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook said Wednesday quarterly profit climbed to an all-time record $6.9 billion as it boosted its global user base despite scandals that have dented the leading social network’s image. Revenue soared 30 percent from a year ago to $16.9 billion while the number of people using it monthly rose nine percent to 2.32 billion, Facebook said in its fourth quarter update. Net profit for Facebook, which makes most of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday reiterated strong US support for Venezuela’s opposition and said protesters demanding the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro were fighting for freedom. “Large protests all across Venezuela today against Maduro. The fight for freedom has begun!” Trump tweeted. Trump said that earlier he’d spoken with self-declared acting president Juan Guaido, who has been recognized by Washington, to reinforce “strong United States support for Venezuela’s fight to […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate has passed on second reading the Murang Kuryente bill. Under Senate Bill No. 1950, electricity rates are reduced by allowing the use of the net national government share from the Malampaya natural gas project for the payment of the stranded contract costs and stranded debts of the National Power Corporation. The net national government share shall be remitted to a special trust fund to be administered by the Power Sector Assets […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Bangladesh will Wednesday file a lawsuit in New York against a Philippine bank over its involvement in one of the biggest-ever cyber heists, the country’s central bank governor said. Unidentified hackers stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank’s account with the US Federal Reserve in New York in February 2016. The money was then transferred to a Manila branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), swiftly withdrawn and laundered […]
by Nova SAFO Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — A brutal cold wave brought temperatures lower than Antarctica to the American Midwest on Wednesday, grounding flights, closing schools and businesses and raising hypothermia fears for homeless residents. Mail deliveries were suspended and people encouraged to stay home in nearly a dozen US states where the mercury plunged into the negative double digits, the worst freeze to grip the region in a generation. US […]
(Eagle News) — Alain Robert, also known as the French Spiderman, was released on bail on Wednesday, Jan. 30. Police said Robert was temporarily released after he posted the P3,000 bail set by the Makati Prosecutors’ Office. His arraignment for alarm and scandal and other forms of trespassing was scheduled on Friday, Feb. 1. Robert was arrested by the Makati police after he scaled the 47-storey tower on Ayala Ave. on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Robert’s climbs […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Wednesday, Jan. 30, passed on second reading a bill that aims to legalize motorcycles as public utility vehicles. House Bill 8959 aims to amend Section 7(c) of the Land Transportation and Traffic Code that specifies that private motorcycles “shall not be used for hire under any circumstances, and shall not be used to solicit, accept or be used to transport passengers or freight for pay.” The bill […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, Jan. 30, attributed the country’s improved anti-corruption rating to the measures implemented by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo noted Duterte’s dismissal of government officials for corruption, and Duterte’s launch of the 8888 hotline for complaints on corrupt government employees and officials, and his issuance of a freedom of information order for compliance by the executive department, among others. “The President has truly displayed […]
(Eagle News) — Over 1,000 passed the Architect Licensure Examinations in January, the Professional Regulation Commission announced on Wednesday, Jan. 30. According to the PRC, the 1,120 who passed the exams in Manila, Baguio, Cebu, Davao, Legazpi and Zamboanga on January 25 and 27 represent over 50 percent of the 1,990 who took the tests. Justin Lei Germino Ramos of the Cebu Institute of Technology University topped the exams, with an 83.8 percent rating. Ramos was […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has defended the showing of the biopic of Bureau of Corrections chief and senatorial candidate Ronald Dela Rosa that hit theaters on Wednesday, Jan. 30. According to Duterte, who spoke to reporters in an interview after the premiere night of “Bato The Movie: The General Ronald Dela Rosa Story” in a Mandaluyong mall the day before, the biopic was merely a “tribute to an officer and a soldier of the […]
(Eagle News) — All four individuals who were caught in closed-circuit television camera in the site of the Jolo, Sulu blasts that killed at least 21 people surfaced on Wednesday, Jan. 30, to clear their names. Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Mindanao Command spokesperson Lt. Col. Gerry Besana said Alshaber J. Arbi, 18, and Gerry Isnajil, a teacher, first surfaced at the police provincial office around 10 a.m. The teacher, who was wearing a […]
(Eagle News) — Amnesty International is urging the Philippine Congress “to reject attempts to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility” as it aired its deep concern at renewed efforts by the Philippine government to lower the minimum age of responsibility from 15 to 12 years old. The London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights views current moves in Congress on lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility as “disturbing.” “Amnesty International calls on the […]
