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(Eagle News) — Isinagawa ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa lalawigan ng Pangasinan ang paglingap sa mga kaanib at hindi kaanib na naapektuhan dahil sa hagupit ng bagyong Ompong. Limang libong relief packs ang naipamahagi sa mga naapektuhan ng pagbaha sa Central Pangasinan. Ang lingap ay isinagawa sa compound ng Iglesia Ni Cristo na matatagpuan sa Rizal Extension, Dagupan City nitong Lunes ng hapon, Setyembre 17. Nagmula sa iba’t-ibang mga bayan sa Central Pangasinan ang mga […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Seven people have died and five others are in a coma after taking drugs at a dance music festival in Hanoi late Sunday, officials said, as investigators worked to identify the substance. The victims, who were all Vietnamese, “all tested positive for drugs,” deputy director of Hanoi police Nguyen Van Vien told reporters Monday. “Police are trying to figure out what type of drug it was,” he added. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News) — Isinailalim sa pinakamataas na alerto o alert level 4 ang General Santos City matapos ang nangyaring pagsabog ng isang hinihinalang improvised explosive device sa Makar Road, Barangay Apopong Linggo ng umaga. Sa kasalukuyan ay nagdagdag ng checkpoints ang otoridad upang mas lalong mabantayan ang seguridad ng lungsod at maging ang mga residente nito. Ayon naman sa mga otoridad, patuloy na kinukumpirma kung ang ginamit na pampasabog ay isang improvised explosive device. (Details […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Monday, September 17 resumed its search and rescue operation for dozens who were buried by landslide caused by Typhoon Ompong in the mountain town of Itogon, Benguet. (Photos courtesy of BJMP Regional CAR)
(Eagle News) — Mabilis na dinala at ipinarating sa lalawigan ng Benguet ang agarang tulong ng Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan ng Iglesia Ni Cristo para sa mga mamamayan at mga kaanib sa INC na naapektuhan ng bagyong Ompong nitong nakalipas na Sabado, Setyembre 15. Nasa halos 2,500 goody bags ang natanggap ng mga nasalanta ng bagyo na isinagawa sa lokal ng La Trinidad, Benguet nito lamang Lunes ng hapon, Setyembre 17. Ayon kay kapatid na Homer Tiomico, […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — More than half of the Netherlands’ senior clerics were involved in covering up sexual assault of children between 1945 and 2010, a press report claimed Saturday, further engulfing the Catholic Church in a global abuse scandal. Over the course of 65 years, 20 of 39 Dutch cardinals, bishops and their auxiliaries “covered up sexual abuse, allowing the perpetrators to cause many more victims”, the daily NRC reported. “Four abused children […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — More than 28 percent of Japan’s population is now officially classified as elderly according to government data, the highest rate in the world as the first wave of postwar baby boomers enter old age. Those aged 65 or older now make up a record 35.6 million, or 28.1 percent of the total population, the government said Sunday. The proportion is the highest by far in the world, ahead of 23.3 percent […]
(Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines on Monday, Sept. 17. said it respects the decision of a Bulacan court to convict retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan and his co-accused for the disappearance of two University of the Philippines students in 2006. “As it has been and always will be, the position of the AFP is submission to the majesty of the courts and respect for the rule of law,” Col Edgard […]
(Eagle News) — The European Union expressed readiness to provide the Philippines with assistance amid the onslaught of Typhoon “Ompong” that left at least 50 dead. “The EU Delegation expresses its sincerest sympathies to the victims and to those severely affected by typhoon Ompong,” the EU delegation in Manila said in a statement. “Ompong” left 59 people dead, the Philippine National Police said. Over 500,000 were affected by the typhoon, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management […]
(Eagle News) — Matinding pinsala ang naranasan ng mga mamamayan lalo na ng mga magsasaka sa bayan ng Baggao sa lalawigan ng Cagayan. Matatandaang sa Baggao ang sentro kung saan tumama ang mata ng bagyong Ompong. Inararo ng malakas na hangin ang hekta-hektaryang pananim na mga mais. Hindi na ito gaanong pakikinabangan ng mga magsasaka dahil sa naging pinsala. Nasira din ang maraming kabahayan sa bayang ito. Nagliparan ang mga bubong ng ilang mga bahay […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Denuclearization will be high on South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s agenda when he meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang this week, Moon’s office said Monday. Moon will fly to the North Korean capital on Tuesday for his third summit with Kim in the latest stage of a diplomatic thaw on the peninsula, although progress has stalled in denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington. “We will push […]
