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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Pascal Siakam banked in the winning shot at the final buzzer as the Toronto Raptors won their eighth consecutive home game with a 111-109 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday. Siakam’s basket, which was upheld by a video review, bounced off the backboard and went in after Suns’ Mikal Bridges had tied it 109-109 with 13 seconds to go. “I just wanted to take the last shot, whatever […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a former Malabon vice mayor at the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Mark Allan Jay Yambao, who served as Malabon vice mayor from 1995 to 2004, will serve as undersecretary of the agency. His appointment paper was signed by President Duterte on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
Urges PDEA to help send the minors to Bahay Pag-Asa instead (Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, Jan. 18, slammed what she said was the parading of minors before the media so authorities could “brag about their presumed accomplishments and earn ‘brownie points.’” De Lima made the statement after the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency nabbed 28 suspected drug offenders, including 12 minors from four to 15 years old, in Navotas on Jan. […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Netflix shares swung lower Thursday as spending on original shows at the leading streaming television service weighed on quarterly revenue and competition heated up. Shares sank nearly four percent to $339.70 in after-market trades that followed release of earnings figures that showed the Silicon Valley company logged profit of $134 million on revenue of $4.2 billion in the final three months of last […]
(Eagle News) — Pinag-aaralan ng Philippine National Railways (PNR) ang posibilidad ng pagpapatupad ng taas-pasahe para sa taong ito. Ito ay upang matugunan ang gastos sa kanilang operasyon at maintenance na epekto ng ikalawang bugso ng excise tax sa ilalim ng TRAIN law. Ayon kay PNR General Manager Jun Magno, mayroon nang nabuong fare matrix ang kanilang planning team. https://youtu.be/YDd4ET34HyE
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Jan. 18, ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe the killing of former Cebu City Assistant Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro. Guevarra said he made the directive for the NBI to “identify the perpetrators at the soonest possible time” in a text message to reporters. Castro was shot dead as she was driving her Nissan Juke vehicle on Escario St. on Thursday, Jan. 17. The police […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets rallied Friday as another broadly positive week drew to a close, with investors cheered by a report that the US was considering lifting tariffs on China as officials look to hammer out a trade deal. Optimism that the world’s top two economies are on course to reach a deal ending their long-running trade row has helped boost equities across the world this year. And while news that the […]
(Eagle News) — Hihigpitan ng Facebook ang panuntunan nito para sa political ads sa mga bansang may nakatakdang eleksyon sa first half ng 2019. Ayon sa Facebook, habang naghahanda sila para sa mga pangunahing eleksyon sa buong mundo ngayon taon ay patuloy silang nakatuon sa pagpigil ng foreign interference at ang pagbibigay ng mas marami pang impormasyon sa mga tao patungkol sa ads na nakikita sa kanilang platforms. Sa mga political advertiser sa Amerika, Britanya […]
by Miwa SUZUKI Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A rocket carrying a satellite on a mission to deliver the world’s first artificial meteor shower blasted into space on Friday, Japanese scientists said. A start-up based in Tokyo developed the micro-satellite for the celestial show over Hiroshima early next year as the initial experiment for what it calls a “shooting stars on demand” service. The satellite is to release tiny balls that glow brightly […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — Electric-vehicle maker Tesla will recall 14,123 cars in China over airbags that contained a part made by now-defunct Japanese manufacturer Takata, the Chinese market regulator announced on Friday. The US giant has already announced the recall of some Model S vehicles as part of a global industry-wide rooting out of parts made by Takata, which went bust in 2017 after its airbags were blamed for a number of deaths. The affected vehicles […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Transportation on Friday, Jan. 18, lauded a guard at the Clark International Airport after she returned a wallet containing almost P200,000 which she found in the airport premises. Citing a report from Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) President Jaime Alberto Melo, the DOTr said Lorna Brinosa, 39, found the wallet with P182,000 in cash on the floor of a nearby light post at the landside commercial area of the airport terminal. She […]
(Eagle News) — Aabot sa 19 na kilo ng shabu na nagkakahalaga ng mahigit 129 milyong piso ang nasabat ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency sa Clark International Airport. Ang mga shabu, naka-repack ng tig-250 grams at itinago sa loob ng mga lata ng tomato sauce na nakalagay sa kahon. Matapos madiskubre ang modus, agad na ikinasa ng PDEA ang controlled delivery operations. Isa-isa nilang inihatid ang mga package sa address ng mga nakalagay na consignee. […]
