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(Eagle News)—A Bulacan court has found retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan and two others guilty of kidnapping and serious illegal detention. Apart from Palparan, Judge Alexander Tamayo of Malolos Regional Trial Court Branch 15 sentenced Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado and Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio to reclusion perpetua over the disappearance of University of the Philippines students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, a radio report said. A third co-accused, Rizal Hilario, is at large. The […]
(Eagle News)—Isabela and Cagayan, which were the hardest-hit by Typhoon “Ompong,” have not recorded any casualty so far, Presidential Political Adviser Francis Tolentino said on Monday, Sept. 17. According to Tolentino, who spoke in a television interview, this was because the residents in those areas, where “Ompong” made landfall, followed the instructions of the government. “Yung pinangangambahan na storm surge, yung pinangangambahan na mamamatay sa flooding, wala po kasi tumalima yung mga kababayan natin sa […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s far-right presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro was released from intensive care Sunday after undergoing surgery for complications from a stab wound he suffered while campaigning. The candidate, who had surgery to remove an intestinal blockage on Wednesday, has been moved to a “semi-intensive care unit,” doctors at Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital said. A leftwing assailant stabbed Bolsonaro, 63, on September 6 during a campaign walkabout in the town […]
(Eagle News)—-Several flights to and from Hong Kong were cancelled on Monday, Sept. 17, due to bad weather caused by “Mangkhut” in southern China. Below is a list, according to the Manila International Airport Authority: Philippine Airlines PR 382 Manila – Guangzhou PR 383 Guangzhou – Manila Cebu Pacific 5J 272 Manila – Hong Kong 5J 273 Hong Kong – Manila 5J 110 Manila – Hong Kong 5J 111 Hong Kong – Manila China Southern […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, Sept. 15, said he wants to create a body that will monitor all procurement processes in government. The President said the “office of checks and balances” will be composed of five people he himself will appoint. He said the five people are “adept sa accounting and of course audit.” “..Lahat ng purchases ng gobyerno, so malaman ko kung may nabayad, dumating ba o hindi…Para wala nang ghost deliveries, wala […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s prime minister on Sunday defended his government’s controversial decision to go ahead with the delivery of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, saying it was needed to preserve good ties with the Gulf state. His Socialist government announced earlier this month that it would block the delivery of the weapons amid concerns that they could harm civilians in Yemen where Saudi Arabi is engaged in a bloody conflict. But on Thursday Foreign […]
(Eagle News) — The town of Oras, a fourth class municipality in Eastern Samar, may have been spared by typhoon Ompong, but it did not escape a fire that engulfed a large portion of the town on Sunday, Sept. 16. The fire also razed the town’s public market where people buy most of their food. The fire lasted for four hours, starting at 1 a.m. when most of the townspeople are asleep, and ended […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A college professor has gone public for the first time to accuse President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s, prompting calls by the opposition to postpone the nomination vote. Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, initially detailed the allegations about Brett Kavanaugh in confidential letters to her congresswoman and later to California Senator Diane Feinstein, a senior Democrat on the […]
(Eagle News)–At least 33 people were confirmed dead after a landslide buried a makeshift chapel and evacuation center in Itogon, Benguet due to “Ompong” on Saturday, Sept. 15. In a radio interview, Itogon Mayor Victorio Palangdan said of those killed after a portion of the national highway — the Baguio-Itogon-San Manuel National Highway — fell on the structures, 28 have already been identified. Another 29 have been declared missing, while seven others were reported injured. He […]
(Eagle News)–At least 59 people were killed due to Typhoon “Ompong,” the Philippine National Police reported on Sunday, Sept. 16. Data from the police showed that of the 59, one was in Region I, seven in Region II, one in Region III, 49 in the Cordillera Administrative Region, and one in Metro Manila. According to the police, 33 were injured— three were from Region I, 20 from CAR, seven from Region II, one from Region […]
by Elaine Yu in Hong Kong with Purple Romero in Tuguegarao Agence France Presse Typhoon Mangkhut rocked Hong Kong before striking mainland China on Sunday, injuring scores and sending skyscrapers swaying, after killing at least 49 people in the Philippines and ripping a swathe of destruction through its agricultural heartland. The world’s biggest storm this year left large expanses in the north of the main Philippine island of Luzon underwater as fierce winds tore […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVPjY3pZbx0 (Videos taken on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 by Eagle News Service correspondents in Hong Kong)
