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SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — China’s major airlines mostly saw their earnings battered in the first half of the year as a weaker Chinese yuan and higher fuel prices offset steadily rising passenger traffic. Net profit at China Eastern Airlines for January-June plunged 48 percent on-year to 2.3 billion yuan ($337 million), the company said Thursday in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange, where it is listed. “China’s civil aviation industry continued to maintain […]
(Eagle News) — Tuluyan nang humina ang southwest monsoon o hanging habagat at hindi na nakakaapekto sa kalupaan ng bansa. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), sa karagatan na lamang nakakaapekto ang habagat kaya maganda at maaliwalas na ang panahon sa buong bahagi ng Luzon. Gayunman, makararanas pa rin ng mga panandaliang pag-ulan dulot ng localized thunderstorms lalo na sa hapon o gabi. Samantala, ang low pressure area na binabantayan ng […]
by Zina DESMAZES Agence France Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — In a room that is both home and studio, Evans Ngure works on a sculpture, a fantastical fish fabricated from found objects: wooden spoons, broken scissors and an old machete. Long before upcycling became a hipster mantra, Ngure turned his Nairobi apartment into a workshop, and junk into art, his choice of artistic expression echoing a necessary developing world culture of re-use. After trying his […]
(Eagle News)–The Sandiganbayan has junked the bail pleas of two former immigration commissioners charged in connection with the P50-million bribery scandal in the Bureau of Immigration and their co-accused. The Sixth Division dismissed the bail petitions of Al Argosino and Michael Robles, and former policeman Wally Sombero after it ruled the prosecution had proven they should stand trial for plunder. Sombero was allegedly the middleman of businessman Jack Lam, who is accused of paying Argosino […]
Ni Nora Dominguez Eagle News Correspondent TINGLAYAN, Kalinga (Eagle News) – Nasa labing isang plantation site ng marijuana ang nakubkob ng mga operatiba ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) sa mga barangay ng Butbot at Buscalan ng Tinglayan, Kalinga. Ayon PDEA Cordillera, nagkakahalaga ng Php-11.5 million ang nadiskubreng marijuana plantation sa nabanggit na lugar. Binunot at sinunog ng mga operatiba ng PDEA ang nadiskubreng fully grown marijuana sa lugar. Ang isinagawang operasyon ay kaugnay pa […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a September 12 event at which it is expected to unveil new additions to its money-making iPhone line-up. In typical enigmatic style, Apple offered scant clues to what it has in store for the presentation to take place in the Steve Jobs Theater at its spaceship campus in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino. Invitations had the words “Gather round” under a […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – Yemen faces a possible third wave of a cholera epidemic, the UN warned Thursday, following a jump in the number of suspected cases over recent weeks. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said current rains were increasing the risk of infection in the war-torn country, which has seen 1.1 million suspected cases since last April. “The number of suspected cholera cases has been increasing over the last two months in Yemen,” he […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Researchers have found a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs. Rising temperatures will stimulate insects’ appetites — and make some prone to reproducing more quickly — spelling danger for key staples like wheat, corn and rice which feed billions of people, researchers said Thursday. And since these three crops account for 42 percent of the calories people […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Maria Sharapova thwarted a second-set comeback bid by Sorana Cirstea, beating the Romanian 6-2, 7-5 on Thursday to reach the third round of the US Open. Sharapova, the 2006 champion at Flushing Meadows, coughed up 10 double faults as she got off to a slow start on Arthur Ashe Stadium. But she improved to 21-0 in night matches at the tournament — recovering from a break down in the […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The International Space Station crew on Thursday was repairing a small “leak” most likely caused by a collision with a small meteorite, the head of the Russian space agency said, adding the incident presented no danger. “Overnight and in the morning there was an abnormal situation — a pressure drop, an oxygen leak at the station,” Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. “A microfracture was found, […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A fight between two groups of young men that culminated in shots being fired on Thursday prompted the evacuation of a mall in Toronto, a month after a mass shooting in the nation’s largest city left two dead. Police Superintendent Rob Johnson said the shooting took place on the east side of the gigantic Yorkdale Shopping Centre that is popular with locals. It began, he said, as an altercation between “two […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s factory activity ticked marginally upward in August, official data showed Friday, beating forecasts as analysts expected the trade war with the US to weigh more heavily on manufacturing. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key gauge of factory conditions, came in at 51.3 for the month, up from 51.2 in July, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. The number beat the 51.0 reading tipped in a Bloomberg News survey […]
