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(Eagle News) — Pasok ang Cebu City at Kuala Lumpur sa sampung lugar na kilalang binibisita ng mga Taiwanese tuwing holiday season. Sa annual report ng online travel company na Expedia, pasok sa top 10 most visited cities ng mga turista mula Taiwan ang mga sumusunod: Hong Kong Tokyo Bangkok Seoul Osaka Shanghai Cebu Macau Singapore Kuala Lumpur Ito ay base sa kanilang online travel booking statistics. Ito ang kauna-unahang pagkakataon na nakapasok ang Cebu […]
(Eagle News)– Daraga, Albay Mayor Carlwyn Baldo had also planned to kill former Mayor Gerry Jaucian, a police official said on Monday, Jan. 7. Quoting the statement of Emmanuel Jaduvar, the police’s main witness in the killing of Rep. Rodel Batocabe, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group director Chief Supt. Amado Corpuz said Baldo had offered P350,000 for the job to the same people who killed the congressman in December 2018. Batocabe’s security aide SP01 Orlando […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has executed a farmer who attacked several children with a knife at a kindergarten in a southern Chinese city two years ago, state media reported Monday. Yan Pengan was executed last Friday for slashing young children at the school in the Guangxi Zhuang region, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Yan went to the kindergarten with a kitchen knife in January 2017 and attacked 12 children, seriously injuring four of […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde has ordered the relief of three police officers from the intelligence unit for allegedly leaking information on the alleged profiling of members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers. In a press conference, Albayalde, without giving names, said the relieved officers came from Manila’s Station 3, Quezon City’s Station 6 and a station in Zambales. “Kung ganong intel officer, hindi dapat nagli-leak ‘yung trabaho mo, if really may utos na […]
by Matthieu DEMEESTERE Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town. This week, he will go on trial for four anti-Semitic murders during a shooting spree at Belgium’s Jewish Museum. […]
by Clément Zampa Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — A shadow creeps behind two visitors just inside the Jewish museum in Brussels. A man emerges, arm extended as he fires a pistol into their necks. The first bullet kills Emanuel Riva, the second, his wife Miriam, with the couple dropping to the floor in a ghoulish scene captured by the museum’s security cameras. Neither Israeli tourist sees the shooter coming as they are engrossed […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Norman Powell scored 23 points and Kyle Lowry returned from injury to tally 12 as the Toronto Raptors snapped the Indiana Pacer’s six-game NBA win streak with a 121-105 victory on Sunday. Pascal Siakam finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds and Serge Ibaka scored 18 as the Raptors won — despite missing Kawhi Leonard, who sat out to get some rest. The four-time all-star Lowry also dished out […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo stocks closed up more than two percent on Monday, after European and US markets roared last week on strong US data and dovish comments from the US Federal Reserve. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 2.44 percent, or 477.01 points, to end at 20,038.97 while the broader Topix index jumped 2.81 percent, or 41.37 points, to 1,512.53. In recent weeks, investors have aggressively sold down Tokyo shares on general worries […]
by Yan ZHAO Agence France-Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — On a mountain slope overlooking Hong Kong, Giovanni Lam waits for the right gust of wind to send him soaring skywards, one of a growing number of paragliders using flight to escape the dense urban sprawl below. Patience is rewarded in paragliding, explained Lam, a university lecturer and youth counselor who brought three novices and heavy equipment on a 40-minute mountain trail hike last month, […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — “Bohemian Rhapsody” on Sunday pulled a major upset at the Golden Globes, walking away with two top prizes — best drama film and best actor for Rami Malek, who plays Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in the biopic about the iconic band. The film bested early favorite “A Star Is Born,” box office superhero hit “Black Panther,” Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.” In the best actor […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 32 people were killed by a landslide in Indonesia on New Year’s Eve, authorities said Monday as they ended a week-long search for missing victims. Rescuers who have been pulling bodies from mountains of mud called off the search with one person still unaccounted for after heavy rains triggered the deadly slides in West Java province. Several others were injured in the December 31 disaster. “The search has wrapped […]
