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(Eagle News) – Sinimulan nang talakayin ng House Committee on Public Order and Safety ang panukalang naglilimita sa paggamit ng videoke at pagpapatugtog ng malakas sa mga residential area. Layunin ng panukalang batas na iniakda ni Quezon Province 4th district Rep. Angelina Tan na maiwasan ang hindi kanais-nais na ingay sa mga residential area at mahinto ang negatibong social at health effect ng mga nasabing aktibidad. Sa ilalim ng House Bill 1035, ipinagbabawal ang ang […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The death toll from a major earthquake that struck Papua New Guinea last month has risen to 125, police said Wednesday, amid concern that an outbreak of disease will see it jump further. A 7.5-magnitude quake struck the Pacific nation’s mountainous interior on February 26, burying homes and causing landslides, making it hard to reach isolated villages. Police said the toll had now reached 125, up from 100 last week, as […]
(Eagle News) — Hindi na nagawa pang maihatid ng isang bus drayber ang kaniyang mga pasahero matapos itong masawi nang madamay sa karambola sa Maharlika Highway Diversion Road sa Atimonan, Quezon nitong Martes. Ayon sa ulat, si Juan Manuel Vinas Bron III, 28, at drayber ng Philtranco bus, ang isa sa dalawang katao na nasawi sa insidente dakong alas 9 ng gabi. Patay din ang pasaherong si Lorenzano Salundagit Lesano, 52. Labinlima naman ang nasugatan. […]
By Jerold Tagbo Eagle News Service Supporters of Special Assistant to the President Bong Go have launched a movement aimed at convincing him to run for senator in the 2019 elections. The launch of “Ready, Set, Go!” done on Wednesday in Intramuros, Manila was attended by several members of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet–Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, and Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration deputy director […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Stephen Hawking, who has died aged 76, was Britain’s most famous modern-day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Born on January 8, 1942 — 300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei — he believed science was his destiny. But fate also dealt Hawking a cruel hand. Most of his life was spent in […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Russell Westbrook snared the 100th triple-double of his career on Tuesday as the Oklahoma City Thunder closed in on a playoff berth with a 119-107 defeat of the Atlanta Hawks. Westbrook finished with 32 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists to become only the fourth player in NBA history to record a century of triples. The 29-year-old Thunder star joins Oscar Robertson (181), Magic Johnson (138) and Jason Kidd […]
Recount to be done on April 2 instead of on March 19, Marcos’ spokesperson says (Eagle News) — The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has deferred the start of the manual recount of votes in three pilot provinces in connection with an electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos. Atty. Victor Rodriguez, Marcos’ spokesperson, said the start of the recount in Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental was moved to April […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, has died at age 76, a family spokesman said Wednesday “We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today,” Professor Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert, and Tim said in a statement carried by Britain’s Press Association news agency. “He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose […]
(Eagle News) – Umabot na sa 500 pamilya ang nagsilikas sa gitna ng nagpapatuloy na bakbakan ng militar at rebeldeng grupo na Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) sa boundary ng Datu Unsay at Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao. Ayon kay Datu Saudi Ampatuan Municipal Administrator Akmad Donia, pansamantalang nanunuluyan ang mga evacuee sa Dapiawan Elementary School at mga Madrasah (Muslim Private Schools). Apektado ng bakbakan sa Datu Unsay ang Barangay Malangog. Nagpapatuloy naman ang clearing operations […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday said the dismissal by a Department of Justice prosecution panel of the drug charges filed against Kerwin Espinosa and the others only proves that she is innocent of the charges against her. “Lalong napapagtibay (ito ng) aking paniniwala sa simula’t sapul na peke at palpak ang war on drugs ni (President Rodrigo) Duterte,” De Lima said in a statement made from detention in Camp Crame. De […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Kerwin Espinosa’s confession he was a drug dealer before a Senate hearing in 2016 could not be submitted to the Department of Justice prosecution panel as evidence against him because he retracted the same during the preliminary investigation. CIDG Director Roel Obusan said Espinosa denied the testimonies he made in his answer submitted to the first prosecution panel tasked to look into the drug charges filed against him, Peter Lim, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nag-aalok ng summer jobs ang Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) sa 200 estudyante. Bahagi ito ng Summer Program for Employment of Students na bukas sa mga estudyante sa college at graduating high school students. Ang mga estudyante ay itatalaga sa mga gawain sa opisina sa ahensya at magsisilbing informant sa mga problema sa trapiko. Ang mga aplikante ay dapat ay nasa 17 hanggang 25 taong gulang. Ang application forms ay […]
