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(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has granted a holiday furlough to former Senator Bong Revilla. Apart from Revilla, his former chief of staff Richard Cambe was given a 10-hour furlough by the anti-graft court’s First Division. In separate resolutions, the First Division said Revilla and Cambe could leave their detention cells in Camp Crame from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 24. The division said the two should shoulder all expenses that would have to be […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Maagang nakaranas ng aberya ang mga pasahero ng Metro Rail Transit (MRT-3). Sa abiso ng MRT-3, pinababa ang mga pasahero sa GMA-Kamuning station southbound kaninang alas 6:10 ng umaga dahil sa naranasang technical problem ng isa sa mga tren. Nasa 1,000 pasahero ang naapektuhan ng insidente at kinailangang pababain sa tren na nagkaroon ng electrical failure. Ayon sa abiso ng Department of Transportation (DOTr), ang naranasang electrical failure […]
by Jung Ha-Won Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Known for its ultra-competitive, pressure-cooker society, South Korea has one of the world’s highest suicide rates. And this week the even higher stresses in the country’s lucrative showbiz industry took their toll on a K-pop superstar. Kim Jong-Hyun, a 27-year-old lead singer of the hugely popular boy band SHINee, took his own life in a Seoul hotel room on Monday, with his death sending […]
SURIGAO CITY, Surigao del Norte (Eagle News) – Pinalaya na ang dalawang pulis na bihag ng New People’s Army sa lalawigan ng Surigao del Norte. Humigit kumulang dalawang buwan na binihag sina PO2 Alfredo Degamon at PO2 John Paul Doverte bago ang matagumpay na negosasyon sa pagitan ng gobyerno at ng nasabing grupo. Isinailalim sa medical checkup ang dalawang pulis bago ito bumaba mula sa lugar ng Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte. Jabes Juanite, Eagle News Service […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Magpapatupad ang MRT 3 ng mas maiksing operating hours ngayong holiday season. Ito ay dahil sa inaasahang pagbaba ng bilang ng mga pasahero. Ang regular schedule ng MRT 3 ay mula 5:30 ng umaga hanggang 10:30 ng gabi. Ang pansamantalang pagbabago ng schedule ng MRT ay sa mga petsa at oras na sumusunod: 24 ng Disyembre, Linggo mula 4:45 AM hanggang 08:26 PM 25 ng Disyembre, Lunes mula 6:30 AM […]
Says party was “well-deserved” by employees (Eagle News) — The head of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office on Thursday defended the conduct of a year-end party for the agency’s employees, adding he was open to any inquiry into the money spent on the celebration. Jose Jorge Corpuz made the pronouncement a day after Sandra Cam, the newly appointed PCSO director, slammed the “lavish” party reportedly held at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, a five-star hotel. Cam […]
By Hwang Sunghee in Seoul and Sebastien Berger in Pyongyang Agence France Presse PYONGYANG, North Korea (AFP) — North and South Korea are radically different societies, one ruled by the same family for decades and the other a freewheeling democracy and thrusting economy. But one thing unites them — their love of fermented cabbage. Kimchi, originally a means of preserving the vegetable during winter and which can vary from mild to fiery, has been a […]
by Atish Patel Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India on Wednesday unveiled a new weapon against air pollution — an “anti-smog gun” which authorities hope will clear the skies above New Delhi but which environmentalists say amounts to a band-aid solution. The cannon’s Indian manufacturers say the fine droplets of water it ejects at high speed can flush out deadly airborne pollutants in one of the world’s smoggiest capitals. The giant mister […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has adjusted the dates covered by the holiday ceasefire with Communist rebels. “The Executive Secretary confirmed that the ceasefire decided upon the President is now from December 23, 6.pm. until December 26, 11:59 p.m. and from December 30, 6 p.m. to January 2 [2018], 11:59 p.m.,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a briefing on Thursday. Roque earlier said that the suspension of combat operations would be on December […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s most enduring military mystery has been solved after the wreckage of the country’s first submarine was found more than a century after vanishing off Papua New Guinea’s coast, officials said Thursday. HMAS AE1, the first of two E Class submarines built for the Royal Australian Navy, vanished on 14 September, 1914 near the Duke of York Islands with 35 crew members from Australia, Britain and New Zealand on board. The […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The Bank of Japan kept its ultra-loose monetary policy in place Thursday as inflation remains stubbornly low in the world’s third-biggest economy, bucking a trend of gradually tighter policy in major economies. The bank said it would purchase 10-year government bonds so that long-term interest rates would remain “at around zero percent.” The BoJ will also keep charging a negative interest rate on some accounts held by financial institutions at the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Six of K-pop’s biggest stars carried the coffin of fellow singer Kim Jong-Hyun to a hearse Thursday, after he died leaving behind a suicide note that spoke of his battle with loneliness and depression. Kim’s body was taken to his funeral from the Asan Medical Centre in Seoul where it had been lying at rest. The procession was led by one of Kim’s bandmates from SHINee — one of the […]
