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(Eagle News)—Ninety two percent of Filipinos are entering 2019 with hope, a Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the SWS, this is 4 points below the record-high 96% in 2017, and the same as the 92% in 2008, 2012, and 2015. The SWS said 8% will enter the New Year with fear, up by 4 points from 4% in 2017. According to the SWS, the 4-point decline in the overall New Year hope from […]
(Eagle News)–Several flights were cancelled on Monday, Dec. 31, due to the bad weather. Below is a list: Cebu Pacific 5J 504/505 Manila-Tuguegarao-Manila 5J 506/507 Manila-Tuguegarao-Manila CebGo DG 6117/6118 Manila-Naga-Manila
(Eagle News)—At least two people were killed and 21 others were injured after a blast ripped through a mall in Cotabato on Monday, Dec. 31. Authorities said the cause of the explosion was an improvised explosive device that was inside a wrapped box. It was still unknown who the suspects are. Authorities said, however, that based on history, the Daulah Islamiyah have been conducting attacks in the area.
(Eagle News) — Umakyat na sa 55 ang bilang ng mga nabiktima ng paputok sa bisperas ng bagong taon. Sa monitoring ng Department of Health (DOH), siyam ang panibagong kaso ng fireworks-related injuries. Ang pinakahuling bilang ay naitala mula 6:00 ng umaga ng Disyembre 30 hanggang 6:00 ng umaga ng Disyembre 31, 2018. Partikular ang firecracker-related injuries sa mga sumusunod na lugar: • Region VI – 4 kaso • Region VII – 1 kaso • […]
by Elia VAISSIERE Agence France Presse CANCALE, France (AFP) — Gulping down oysters has long been a favourite New Year’s Eve ritual for the French, but as winters get warmer and summers get drier many growers worry there will soon be fewer of the prized mollusks to go around. “Twenty years ago, we’d be shivering in the warehouse while preparing the holiday orders. Today it’s 15 degrees (60 Fahrenheit),” says Brittany oysterman Mathieu Le Moal, […]
by Glenda KWEK Agence France Presse SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s largest city Sydney will put on its biggest-ever fireworks display to welcome the New Year and kick off a wave of celebrations for billions around the world. A record amount of pyrotechnics, as well as new fireworks effects and colours, will light up the harbor city’s skyline for 12 minutes and dazzle the more than 1.5 million spectators expected to crowd foreshores and parks. […]
(Eagle News) — Heavy rains brought by Tropical Depression “Usman” caused a knee-deep flooding in Buhi, Camarines Sur. (Eagle News Camarines Sur Bureau Rosalie Barra)
(Eagle News) — Excited na ang mga lalahok sa 2019 Philippine Arena Countdown para sa pagsalubong sa bagong taon dito sa Ciudad De Victoria sa Bocaue, Bulacan. Mamayang alas-dose ng gabi (12:00 AM) ay sabay-sabay na sasalubungin ng mga kapatid sa Iglesia Ni Cristo ang pagpasok ng taong 2019. Ang ganitong aktibidad ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Philippine Arena na pinagtibay ng Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan ang kapatid na Eduardo V. Manalo ay ipinagpapasalamat ng mga kapatid […]
(Eagle News) — These pictures provided by the Cotabato local government unit and Eagle News Service correspondent Ferdinandh Cabrera show the aftermath of an improvised explosive device explosion in Cotabato on Monday, December 31. The incident took place at 2 p.m.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — To her supporters, Sheikh Hasina is Bangladesh’s “mother of humanity” for giving Rohingya refugees shelter, but to her detractors she’s a creeping autocrat who has jailed opponents and muzzled dissent. Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh’s founder, won a historic fourth term as prime minister with a landslide victory in Sunday’s election that the opposition claimed was rigged. The 71-year-old is lauded by supporters for overseeing a decade of impressive economic growth […]
(Eagle News) — Bukod sa mga aktibidad kagaya ng concert para sa gagawing New Year’s Countdown, dinagsa rin ang mga iba’t ibang atrakson sa Ciudad de Victoria sa Bulacan. At bagamat panaka-naka ang pag-ulan ay patuloy pa rin ang pagbuhos ng mga tao upang saksihan ang iba’t-ibang bagong atraksyon sa Philippine Arena. Ang nasabing mga atraksyon ay bukas hanggang mamayang gabi bago ang 2019 New Yea’s countdown. (Eagle News Service Meanne Corvera)
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious object in a dark and frigid region of […]
