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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Mangkhut has climbed to 81 and could hit triple digits as searchers dig through a landslide where dozens are presumed dead, authorities said Wednesday. Mangkhut swamped farm fields in the nation’s agricultural north and smashed houses when it tore through at the weekend with violent winds and heavy rains. Since then the toll has climbed mostly due to the corpses recovered from […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The tainting of supermarket strawberries with sewing needles is comparable to “terrorism”, Australia’s prime minister said Wednesday, as he demanded tougher sentencing in response to a nationwide scare. Urging Australians to make a strawberry pavlova this weekend to help struggling farmers, Scott Morrison demanded a change in the law to put the perpetrators behind bars for 15 years. “We’re not mucking about” said Morrison, after at least 20 pieces of fruit […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets rose Wednesday as tit-for-tat tariffs by China and the United States were considered lighter than feared, while there are hopes the two sides can eventually hammer out a deal to avert an all-out trade war. Donald Trump on Monday said he would press ahead with 10 percent levies on another $200 billion of imports, sparking a response from Beijing to target $60 billion of US goods with five […]
Ni Jerold Tagbo Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Nagsagawa ng dayalogo ang National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) sa mga lider militante kaugnay sa gagawing malalaking kilos-protesta sa Biyernes sa paggunita sa ika-apatnapu’t anim na taong anibersaryo ng deklarasyon ng batas-militar. Nagkasundo ang magkabilang-panig na susundin ang mga panuntunan sa araw ng protesta. Kabilang na rito, na dapat sa mga itinalagang lugar lamang magprotesta ang mga ito. Sa Biyernes, magsasagawa ng programa ang mga […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea will close its Tongchang-ri missile testing site, the South’s President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday after a summit with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. “The North agreed to permanently close the Tongchang-ri missile engine test site and missile launch facility in the presence of experts from relevant nations,” Moon told reporters. © Agence France-Presse
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s sensitive trade surplus with the United States shrank sharply for the second consecutive month, according to official data published Wednesday, as Tokyo nervously eyes Washington’s trade war with China. The surplus came in at 455.8 billion yen ($4.05 billion) in August, as the rise in US aerospace, natural gas and coal imports outpaced Tokyo’s exports of pharmaceutical and construction products. US President Donald Trump has reportedly cited Japan as his […]
(Eagle News) — Paiiralin ng gobyerno sa Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) ang sistemang ipinatupad sa Boracay para sa mga mawawalan ng trabaho na small-scale miners. Sa press briefing na isinagawa sa Malacañang, sinabi ni Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque na kabisado na ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) ang sistema kaya hindi na mahihirapan sa pagbibigay ng emergency employment sa mga mawawalan ng trabaho sa CAR. Hindi naman masabi ni Roque kung hanggang kailan […]
(Eagle News)—-Itogon, Benguet Mayor Victorio Palangdan on Wednesday, Sept. 19, .denied he was lenient to illegal small-scale mining operations in the town because of his wife, an accredited gold buyer. In a radio interview, Palangdan said that his wife, in the first place, stopped engaging in the business early this year after miners stopped selling her the gold due to high taxes. He said the high taxes–4 to 7 percent— were because she was an accredited […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government ordered the release of some 4.6 million bags of rice from the warehouses of the National Food Authority to retailers in public markets as well as in grocery stores as part of its immediate measures to address food supply issues. This was revealed by the government’s economic managers who assured the public that there would be adequate food supply in the country as vegetables and other food products, […]
by Frank ZELLER and Michelle FITZPATRICK in Frankfurt Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Angela Merkel’s government on Tuesday removed domestic spy chief Hans-Georg Maassen from office, transferring him to a different post to end an explosive row over immigration and the far right that once more rocked the German chancellor’s fragile coalition. “Mr Maassen will become state secretary in the interior ministry,” Merkel and the leaders of her coalition parties announced in a […]
(Eagle News)–No Filipinos were hurt during the onslaught of Typhoon “Mangkhut” in Guangdong Province in China, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to the DFA, based on the Philippine Consulate General’s coordination with authorities and Filipino community leaders in the area, there were also no Filipino nationals “seriously affected by the typhoon.” Consul General Marshall Louis Alferez said the Guangdong government implemented a “three stops” notice, enabing the relocation of around 2.5 million people and […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Urban air pollution, mostly from vehicles, is associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to research published Wednesday. The link remained even after heavy drinking, smoking and other well established risk factors for dementia were ruled out, the researchers reported in medical journal BMJ Open. Worldwide, about seven percent of people over 65 suffer from Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia, a percentage that rises to 40 percent above the […]
