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(Eagle News) — Mahabang pila ng mga sasakyan sa exit points ng STAR Tollway sa Batangas ang naging resulta ng pagtataas ng toll fee kahapon, Nobyembre 6. Umabot ng mahigit sa isang kilometro ang naging pila ng mga sasakyan sa bawat exit ng tollway, kung saan tumaas ang toll fee ng 25 sentimos o katumbas ng halos apat na piso sa bawat exit point. Dahil sa bagong rate, nalilito maging ang mga teller dahil sa […]
(Eagle News) — Mahigit tatlong libong indigent senior citizens sa buong lalawigan ng Palawan ang nakatanggap na ng kanilang buwanang pensiyon sa ilalim ng local social pension ng pamahalaang panlalawigan para sa mga buwan ng Enero hanggang Hunyo ngayong taon. Ayon kay Gng. Helen G. Bundal, Population Program Officer II ng Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office o PSWDO, mahigit P4 milyon ang halagang naibahagi ng kanilang tanggapan sa mga benepisyaryo ng naturang programa para […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s sharemarket Tuesday broke above 6,000 points for the first time since the global financial crisis, pushing past a psychological barrier amid optimism about the world economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 briefly passed 6,000 in mid-day trading, after failing to breach the level in several attempts over recent years. The market plunged below 6,000 in 2008 as the financial crisis sent shock waves through global markets. “We are going through this […]
KALININGRAD, Russia (Reuters) — A Siberian tiger called Typhoon attacked a female zoo keeper in Kaliningrad on Sunday (November 5) when she came into the enclosure to feed the animal. The incident happened at noon when the zoo was full of visitors. Why the tiger and the woman were both in the enclosure at the same time, was unclear. The animal attacked her and pushed her on the ground. Terrified eyewitnesses tried to distract the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — After a dismal October for Hollywood, Disney and Marvel Studio’s “Thor: Rognarok” proved a smashing success over the weekend weekend, pulling in $122.7 million in North American theaters for a global total of $306 million, industry figures showed Monday. How big was the film’s three-day opening? The latest “Thor” episode, boosted by strong reviews and the self-mocking humor of Chris Hemsworth as the powerful Norse god (with Cate Blanchett as Hela, […]
LAUSSANE, Switzerland (Reuters) — An origami-inspired prototype delivery drone which can transport packages to hard-to-reach destinations has been invented by a PhD student in Switzerland. Przemyslaw Kornatowski’s drone in effect becomes the package by wrapping itself around the cargo before flight. Made of carbon-fiber the cage, which can be folded or unfolded in a single movement, protects both drone and cargo if involved in a collision or fall. “The cage provides safety because it separates […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — Knowing exactly when your fatigue reaches a level that could affect your driving ability isn’t always easy to judge, with long-haul truck drivers most at risk of falling asleep behind the wheel. But speech scientists are working on a method to detect the subtle changes in a person’s voice that could indicate that it’s time to take a break. Audio recordings of a person’s voice are fed into an algorithm […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — A brainless, spineless, pulsating organism has a key behavior in common with humans: sleep. While sleep has been confirmed in other invertebrates such as worms and fruit flies, the jellyfish is the most evolutionarily ancient animal that has been shown to slumber. Jellyfish have thrived in the seas for at least 600 million years, longer than nearly any other animal. By comparison, dinosaurs appeared roughly 230 million years ago […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — With sheet metal roofs, concrete floors, poor ventilation and spotty electricity, crowded urban slums in Africa can expect to get even hotter and deadlier due to global warming, US researchers said Monday. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University analyzed three informal settlements in Nairobi, including the largest, Kibera, home to nearly a million people. Along the settlements’ narrow alleyways, mud-walled homes and metal roofs, they found stifling temperatures, “between five and […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Apple shifted much of its offshore wealth in the face of a tax crackdown on a haven it had in Ireland, according to reporting Monday on the Paradise Papers on the iPhone maker’s tax strategy. After the US technology colossus stated publicly in 2013 that it was paying its proper share of taxes, it moved the bulk of its untaxed overseas cash to the Channel Islands jurisdiction Jersey, the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said he had “great confidence” in an anti-corruption sweep by Saudi Arabia that has seen dozens of high-profile political and business figures arrested. “I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Some of those they are harshly treating have been ‘milking’ their country for years!” added the US president, […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) — Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday (November 6) plans to demolish a culture center in Istanbul named after the founder of modern secular Turkey, in a move critics see as another attempt by the Islamist-rooted ruling party to roll back secularism. It marks Erdogan’s second attempt to tear down the Ataturk Culture Centre (AKM), named after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, after a previous plan to develop the site near Taksim Square […]
