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Malaysian police have detained 20 alleged Islamic militants, including a leading member of an Indonesian extremist group and others believed to be planning to fight in the strife-torn southern Philippines. Authorities said they were the latest arrests of alleged extremists in Muslim-majority Malaysia, as fears grow militants who had been fighting with the Islamic State Group overseas are heading back to Southeast Asia after the jihadists’ losses in the Middle East. Police said the arrests […]
Firemen have found the bodies of “around” 36 people after a deadly blaze at a shopping mall in the southern Philippines, a fire official said Monday. The regional chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection, Wilberto Rico Neil Kwan Tiu, told weeping relatives of the missing that he personally counted “around 36” bodies in an office lobby at the burned down NCCC shopping mall in Davao. Mayor Sara Duterte said earlier that 38 people […]
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said he had already directed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the fire that razed a commercial mall in Davao City over the weekend, where dozens are feared to have died. “The order was given for the NBI to determine the presence of any criminal liability which led to the fire and the attendant loss of lives. The NBI was also ordered to file the necessary cases against […]
A new Chinese government report said China has “reasonably” expanded its islands in the disputed South China Sea and this year’s construction projects there, including radar facilities, covered about 290,000 square meters. The number was broadly similar to one provided by a United States think tank earlier this month. China has conducted extensive land reclamation work on some of the islands and reefs it controls in the South China Sea, including building airports, alarming its […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Nepali authorities have rescued the country’s last known “dancing bears”, officials said Sunday, ending the medieval tradition of abuse of the beasts for entertainment. The Himalayan nation banned performing bears back in 1973 but the illegal practice — a traditional occupation for some street performer communities — lingered on in parts of its southern region. Police and animal charities said they spent more than a year hunting the captors of the […]
AGOO, La Union (Eagle News) – Twenty people, including children, from the same extended family and neighborhood on board a jeepney were killed early Monday, December 25, in a head-on bus collision while travelling to Catholic dawn church service in Agoo, La Union province, police said. Their vehicle, a private Isuzu jeepney, was reportedly on its way to Manaoag when the accident happened around 3:30 a.m. Monday. The dead included six children. A report by […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) – Inimbitahang maging guest si Filipino Boxing Champion Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao sa isang korean show na “Infinite challenge.” Sa nasabing programa ay makakasama ng fighting Senator ang Korean comedians na sina Jo Se Ho at Yoo Byung Jae. Inimbitahan din namang maging guest crew interpreter ang TV host na si Ryan Bang. Sa instagram post ni Choo Dae Yup, nagpahayag naman ng paghanga ang comedian actor sa fighting senator na si […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Tembin (Vinta) on Friday struck the country’s main southern island of Mindanao, which often escapes the 20 or so storms that batter the rest of the archipelago nation each year. Civil defence officials said the number of confirmed deaths from Tembin […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nakahanda ang United Nations (UN) na tumulong sa mga biktima ng bagyong “Vinta” sa Mindanao. Ipinarating ni UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ang kanyang pakikiramay sa libu-libong naapektuhan ng kalamidad. Ayon kay Guterres, hiling niya ang mabilis na pagbangon ng mga biktima mula sa trahedya. Sinaluduhan din ng Secretary General ang mga pagkilos na isinasagawa ng rescue and recovery teams at maging ng mga volunteers sa kabila ng mga […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nagsagawa ng inspeksyon si Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald Dela Rosa sa ilang police stations, checkpoints at Luneta park. Kasama sina National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) Chief Oscar Albayalde, Southern Police Director Tomas Apolinaro Jr., Manila Police Director Joel Coronel at Pasay Police Chief Dionisio Bartolome, surpresang ininspeksyon ang mga istasyon ng Makati, Malate at Ermita. Nag-ikot din sina Dela Rosa sa Luneta at tinignan ang police visibility […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — An artist that could not be reached for more than a week after he painted a politically charged mural in southern China wrote on Twitter Monday that he has been “released”. “I was released a few days ago and we are in my hometown now,” the Twitter account of painter Hu Jiamin read days after Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao reported that the couple had been taken away by plainclothes men. Hu noted […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte knew beforehand that his son, Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, would resign from his post. But Davao Mayor Sara Duterte, the President’s daughter, said that the chief executive has yet to accept the vice mayor’s decision. “Once the resignation is accepted, it is deemed effective,” she said. She said while awaiting the President’s decision, her brother would be “on leave” from the Office of the Vice Mayor. “I can […]
