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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China marked the 10th anniversary Saturday of a massive earthquake that killed tens of thousands in southwest Sichuan province and left scars on the nation that have yet to fully heal. More than 87,000 were left dead or missing when a 7.9-magnitude quake struck Sichuan on the afternoon of May 12, 2008, including 5,335 school pupils. The disaster provoked widespread grief in China, but also outrage after it emerged 7,000 […]
by Salam Faraj with Mohammad Salim in Mosul © Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Iraq headed to the polls Saturday for its first parliamentary election since declaring victory over the Islamic State group, with the country hoping to shore up a fragile peace and rebuild. Some 24.5 million voters began casting their ballots under tight security, as the jihadists still pose a major security threat despite a sharp fall in violence. The poll comes […]
by Sam Reeves © Agence France-Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s scandal-ridden former leader Najib Razak was hit with a travel ban Saturday as speculation mounted he was about to flee the country following his shock election loss, in a possible bid to avoid prosecution over a massive financial scandal. An angry crowd had gathered at a Kuala Lumpur airport, shouting at vehicles and seeking to stop them entering, after Najib tweeted that he was […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — At least 19 people have been killed in fresh clashes between Myanmar’s military and an ethnic armed group on Saturday in remote northern Shan State, Myanmar army and local sources told AFP, as fighting in the country’s borderlands intensifies. “Nineteen [people] were killed in fighting,” the military source said, adding that two-dozen had been injured. Rights defenders say clashes in northern Myanmar near the China border have ramped up in recent […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Three generations of a single family were identified Saturday as the victims of Australia’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, a murder-suicide which left seven people dead. They included Katrina Miles, 35, and her four children — three boys and a girl aged eight to 13 — who were found Friday in a shed on a rural property near the Margaret River wine region in Western Australia, police said. Miles’ mother Cynda […]
(Eagle News)—Over 2000–2738 to be exact—out of the 7,599 examinees passed the Civil Engineer licensure exams. Bagging the top spot was Renz Rodney Fernandez of Western Mindanao State University with a rating of 93.55 percent. Mapua Institute of Technology-Manila graduate Garret Patrick Baluyot took second place with a rating of 93.25 percent, and fellow Mapua alumnus John Victor Lau took third place with a 93.05 percent rating. The top performing school was the De La […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte said he was open to lifting the ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. In a speech in Marawi, a transcript of which was sent to reporters on Friday, May 11, Duterte said this was if a pact ensuring the protection of Filipino workers there is signed between the two countries. He said the agreement should ensure that all OFWs would have one day-off, seven hours of sleep […]
(Eagle News) – “No one is above the law and the Constitution, not even a Chief Justice who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and obey the laws of the land.” Thus said the 153-page decision of Supreme Court penned by Associate Justice Noel Tijam that was concurred in by seven other justices, ousting and effectively disqualifying Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice on Friday, May 11 – a first in […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines and Kuwait have signed the memorandum of agreement on the protection of Overseas Filipino Workers in the Middle Eastern country. This was revealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Friday, May 11. It was Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and his Kuwaiti counterpart who signed the agreement which, among others, granted OFWs at least one day-off, and stipulated that their passports would no longer be confiscated by […]
(Eagle News) — Respect the Supreme Court. The Palace had this to say on Friday, May 11, after the Supreme Court decided to nullify the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice. “Let us respect its decision granting the quo warranto petition as the proper remedy and the quo warranto petition ruling against Chief Justice Sereno,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. According to Roque, the SC was “duty-bound to uphold the Constitution.” The court […]
(Eagle News) — Majority of the justices of the Supreme Court voted that the quo warranto petition is the “proper remedy” regarding the violations on the filing of the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) of ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Voting 9-5, the Supreme Court justices who said that quo warranto is the “proper remedy” were Presbitero Velasco, Teresita Leonardo De Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, Samuel Martires, […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate is “the one and only impeachment court.” This is according to Senate President Koko Pimentel, who issued a statement hours after the Supreme Court en banc voted to nullify the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice. “The Chief Justice is an ‘impeachable official’ who can be removed only after impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate,” Pimentel said. According to Pimentel, the SC “is supreme in a […]
