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BEIJING, China (AFP) — The Chinese economy revealed fresh signs of softness Friday with data showing the pace of investment slowing to record lows while retail spending and industrial production stabilised. Beijing faces a delicate balancing act, aiming to shift its growth driver away from investment and exports towards personal consumption, while at the same time battling a mountain of debt. The trade spat with major export destination the United States has complicated the task […]
(Eagle News) — The driver of convicted drug lord Peter Co was shot dead in Batangas on Friday, Sept. 14. A report said Ervis Areglo was on his way to a court when several still-unidentified men shot him. He was dead on the spot. Co, whose real name is Wu Tuan Yuan, is serving a life sentence after he was convicted of selling illegal drugs in 2001. In 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte named Co as among the […]
Ni Rustie Lorenzo Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Handa na ang mga sangay ng lokal na pamahalaan ng lalawigan ng Quirino sa maaaring pananalasa ng bagyong Ompong. May mga relief good na ring ibinigay sa bawat bayan na dadalhin sa mga evacuation center sa bawat barangay. Maging ang mga rescue equipment ay handa na rin katulad ng chainsaw, rescue boat, drone at iba pang mga gamit sa retrieval operation. Alam na rin ng mga […]
(Eagle News) — Ten areas are now under the Signal No. 3 as Typhoon “Ompong” approached the Isabela-Cagayan area, where it is expected to make landfall on Saturday. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the ten areas were: Cagayan including the Babuyan group of islands, Apayao, Abra, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Ifugao, Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino and Northern Aurora. Signal No. 2 is up over Batanes, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Benguet, Pangasinan, […]
(Eagle News) — Light to moderate rains were felt in some parts of Muzon, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan on Friday morning, before “Ompong” was expected to make a landfall in the Isabela-Aurora area on Saturday. (Video courtesy of Eagle News Correspondent Rene Boy Ronda)
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets extended their gains Friday on hopes for China-US trade talks, while Turkey’s lira held up after a shock hike in the country’s interest rate and a dip in US inflation. After a tumultuous start to the month, investors finally had something to smile about Thursday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin invited Chinese officials for fresh talks to avert an all-out trade war. The news provided some much-needed support, […]
(Eagle News) — Only 533 out of 3,100 passed the Basic Competency on Local Treasury Examination in June. The Civil Service Commission said the figure represents only 17.19% of the total number of examinees. Grace Quintana from Davao region and Jed Dares Tonogan from Western Visayas, bested the examinees, with an 89.73 rating each. Other top performers were Anna Liza Gaspar (Ilocos region) with 89.19 percent; Bernadette Duya (Central Luzon) and Eddieflor Laurejas, Jr. (Eastern Visayas) with 88.38 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US forecasters late Thursday downgraded Hurricane Florence to a Category 1 storm, as its outer edge lashed the Carolinas with strong winds and heavy rain. In its 0300 GMT advisory, the National Hurricane Center said the maximum sustained winds of Florence were 90 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour), dropping it to the weakest of five categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale. But the storm still carried “very dangerous winds,” the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North and South Korea opened a joint liaison office in the Northern city of Kaesong on Friday as they knit closer ties ahead of President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Pyongyang next week. “A new chapter in history is open here today,” South Korean unification minister Cho Myoung-gyon told a ceremony, according to a pool report. “This liaison office is another symbol of peace jointly created by the South and the […]
(Eagle News) — Light to moderate with occasional heavy rains are being experienced in Batangas City. (Photos courtesy of Eagle News Correspondent Marco Eraño Navalta)
BAKERSFIELD, United States (AFP) — A man who killed five people, including his wife, in California before taking his own life had been in the midst of a contentious divorce, authorities said Thursday. “It appears that the suspect targeted each of his victims,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a news conference in Bakersfield, where Wednesday’s deadly rampage took place. He said the shooter, identified as Javier Casarez, 54, was in divorce proceedings and his […]
(Eagle News) — There is no warrant of arrest for Senator Antonio Trillanes IV just yet. This was after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 on Friday, Sept. 14, instead gave the prosecution five days to reply to Trillanes’ written comment and opposition to the prosecution’s motion for alias warrant and hold departure order. Trillanes, who was charged with rebellion in the court, was also given five days to respond to the prosecution’s reply. […]
