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(Eagle News) — These pictures provided by EBC correspondents show fallen trees on Hong Kong roads as Typhoon “Mangkhut” battered the territory. This was after “Mangkhut,” locally named “Ompong,” unleashed its fury in the Philippines and left at least 50 people dead. “Ompong” made landfall in northern Luzon early Saturday, and left the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Saturday night.
(Eagle News) – Matapos ang pananalasa ng bagyong Ompong sa probinsya ng Abra ay agad nagpaabot ng lingap ang Iglesia Ni Cristo sa pangunguna ng Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan ang kapatid na Eduardo V. Manalo sa pamamagitan ng FYM Foundation sa mga nasalanta ng bagyo. Umabot sa limang libong goody bags ang naipamahagi sa Linasin, Bangued, Abra. Pinangunahan ni kapatid na Henil Aswigue, Tagapangasiwa ng Distrito kasama ang mga ministro at manggagawa ang pamamahagi ng goody bags. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has carried out its first submarine drill in the South China Sea, a newspaper said Monday, a move that could provoke Beijing which claims most of the disputed waters. Submarine Kuroshio on Thursday joined three Japanese warships in waters just southwest of the China-controlled Scarborough Shoal, the Asahi Shimbun said. China claims most of the resource-rich South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in shipping trade passes annually, despite competing […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday. The sharp increase could also see a net gain in “new roles” for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the “seismic shift” in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated. “By 2025 more than half of […]
CAGAYAN, Philippines (AFP) — Homes stripped of their roofs and vast cornfields drowned in muddy floodwaters: this is the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut as seen from the air. The world’s worst storm of the year has left scores dead in the Philippines. https://youtu.be/KBn-z9Tt7-E
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets sank on Monday following reports that Donald Trump is planning to hit China with another round of tariffs, dealing a blow to hopes for talks between the two economic giants. Traders sent regional equities surging on Thursday and Friday as it emerged that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had offered to meet officials from Beijing to avert an all-out trade war. However, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday. The sharp increase could also see a net gain in “new roles” for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the “seismic shift” in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated. “By 2025 more than half of all […]
(Eagle News)—-Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has ordered a suspension of all small-scale mining operations in the entire Cordillera Administrative Region. He said the suspension will apply until applications for Minahang Bayan are approved. Cimatu gave the order after a landslide initially blamed on mining operations at the height of “Ompong” buried a chapel and claimed at least 33 lives in Itogon, Benguet. “Ompong” has claimed at least 59 lives, the Philippine National Police said. It […]
(Eagle News) — Photos of the aftermath of typhoon Ompong in the province of Pangasinan on Monday, September 17. (Photos courtesy of Eagle News Correspondent Nora Dominguez)
Ni Freddie Rulloda Eagle News Correspondent BAGUIO CITY, Benguet (Eagle News) – Aabot na sa 54 katao ang kumpirmadong namatay sa pananalasa ng bagyong Ompong sa rehiyon ng Cordillera. Ayon sa City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRRMC) at Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO) Command Office, karamihan sa mga namatay ay natabunan ng gumuhong lupa at putik. Ang ilan naman ay naanod ng rumaragasang tubig, at natamaan ng mga tumumbang mga punong-kahoy. Narecover […]
(Eagle News)—-Over 500,000 people were affected after Typhoon “Ompong” hit the country, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said on Monday, Sept. 17. The NDRRMC said that of the 591762, 286,730 people came from Region III; 109,472 individuals from Region I; and 90,523 individuals from Region II. The NDRRMC said 229 areas were flooded in Regions I and III and in Calabarzon. Classes were also suspended in 957 cities and municipalities in Regions […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — The death toll in Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak has risen to 28, state media said Sunday, as the health minister announced new antibiotics were being used after the disease strain was found to be resistant to some drugs. The cholera outbreak, first detected in a township outside the capital Harare earlier this month, prompted the government to declare an emergency in the city after at least 3,000 cases were reported. “Although I cannot […]
