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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong’s leader Tuesday refused to say why the city had denied a visa to a leading Financial Times journalist, despite escalating demands for an explanation of the unprecedented challenge to freedom of the press. Victor Mallet, the FT’s Asia news editor and a British national, angered authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong by hosting a speech at the city’s press club by Andy Chan, the leader of a […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte himself revealed that results of his recent medical test showed that he was “negative” for cancer. The President told his cabinet members in a meeting Monday night, October 8, that test results had cleared him of cancer. Interior and Local Government officer-in-charge Eduardo Año told reporters how the President himself had intimated this to them during Monday’s cabinet meeting, and that there was nothing to worry about his […]
PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — Shrieking with delight, Indonesian kids in disaster-struck Palu rush to cuddle a giant Winnie the Pooh, his horseplay and goofy smiles drawing big smiles in a park surrounded with rubble. Volunteers are cheering up children across Palu with songs and games as the youngsters come to grips with a city hollowed out and twisted by nature. An earthquake and tsunami on September 28 has killed close to 2,000 on Sulawesi island […]
By Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice. Kavanaugh will emerge Tuesday morning from behind the courtroom’s red velvet curtains and take his seat alongside his eight colleagues. It will be a moment that conservatives have dreamed of […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar is “unable and unwilling” to investigate its abuses against Rohingya Muslims, a UN rights envoy has said, bolstering calls for the country’s generals to be hauled before an international court. A UN fact-finding mission has called for Myanmar’s top brass to be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes over a brutal crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state that forced more than 720,000 of the beleaguered minority […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa’s training to go the moon should not be too tricky, he joked Tuesday, adding that he planned to use free time from his six-hour work day to squeeze it in. The 42-year-old Maezawa paid an undisclosed sum for a ticket on fellow tycoon Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023 and the passionate art collector also plans to […]
by Fulya OZERKAN Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — They are among Istanbul’s most iconic sights — magnificent waterside mansions strung out along the Bosphorus as the waters of the strait dividing Europe and Asia lap almost at their front doors. Once the preserve of the Ottoman elite and affluent foreigners working in what was Constantinople, the mansions, known as yalis, were made famous in novels and more recently through modern Turkey’s hugely successful […]
(Eagle News) — Inanunsyo ng Department of Education (DepEd) na makakatanggap ng karagdagang bonus ang mga public school teacher. Ayon kay Education Secretary Leonor Briones, layon nilang bigyan ng 1,500 pesos ang mga public teacher sa tuwing sasapit ang October 5. Magsisimula silang ibigay ito sa susunod na taon. Nagpasalamat naman ang DepEd sa senado dahil sa pagsama ng special bonus sa 2019 General Appropriations Act.
(Eagle News) — Hinimok ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) na huwag pansinin at itigil ang pag-se-share ng mga post online ukol sa titulong maaaring makuha sa halagang Php 185.00. Ayon sa DENR, hindi umano authentic ang laman ng nasabing online post kahit na may binanggit na pangalan na opisyal ng ahensya. Paliwanag ni Land Management Bureau Director Emelyn Talabis, nakadepende ang titulo ng lupa sa ilang aspeto at hindi lamang sa application […]
(Eagle News) — Nagbabala ang Philippine Airlines (PAL) sa publiko laban sa pagbili ng murang ticket na ibinebenta ng mga scammer sa mga social media site. Ayon sa PAL, bultuhan kung bumili ng tickets ang mga scammer at ibinebenta nila ito sa online sa mababang halaga. Ang mga buyer naman ay bibigyan ng pekeng identification cards para maka-avail ng ticket at naka-book sa ilalim ng gawa-gawa lamang na pangalan. Ayon sa PAL, sinanay ang kanilang […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — The sell-off in Asian markets slowed on Tuesday, with markets seeing little movement as ongoing US-China tensions simmer. A testy public interaction between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Beijing on Monday refueled market worries about China-US relations, which have taken a hefty knock from tit-for-tat tariffs. “A possible train wreck on the negotiation front could completely derail global markets,” said Stephen Innes, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday called for a thorough and open probe by Washington’s ally Saudi Arabia into the disappearance of journalist and Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi. “We call on the government of Saudi Arabia to support a thorough investigation of Mr Khashoggi’s disappearance and to be transparent about the results of that investigation,” Pompeo said in a statement, after President Donald Trump voiced concern for Khashoggi, […]
