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(Eagle News) — The chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said his agency will rise up to the challenge given by President Rodrigo Duterte, to lead the government’s anti-illegal drugs campaign, even if his agency only has about 2,000 personnel. PDEA Director General Aaron N. Aquino said that PDEA will follow the President’s directive, and assured that even if their numbers are small, they would manage although he admitted that they would […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Uniqlo’s parent company said Thursday that its annual net profit more than doubled from a year ago to a record thanks to strong sales and as a cheaper yen inflated profits. Fast Retailing’s net profit came in at 119 billion yen ($1 billion) in the fiscal year through August, with revenue up 4.2 percent at 1.86 trillion yen, it said. Asia’s biggest retailer — a rival of Zara, Gap and H&M — said sales […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — The media has “exaggerated” the number of Rohingya refugees fleeing an army crackdown, Myanmar’s commander-in-chief said Thursday, in a brash rebuttal of accusations of ethnic cleansing by his forces. Some 520,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s western Rakhine state since August 25, when the military launched a sweeping campaign against militants from the Muslim minority. The crackdown has been so intense that the UN on Wednesday accused Myanmar of trying to purge its entire Rohingya […]
(Eagle News) — Hollywood action star Steven Seagal is set to meet President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacanang on Thursday. The meeting is scheduled at 5 p.m. based on Duterte’s schedule of events. It comes days after the popular actor expressed admiration for the President, who he said was doing all he could to make the country safe. Seagal is also a big fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I’m a big fan of the government, […]
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato (Eagle News) – Tinatayang umabot sa P50 milyon ang naitalang pinsala sa nangyaring sunog sa Koronadal City Public Market noong Martes ng gabi. Ayon sa Koronadal City Bureau of Fire Protection, hindi pa kasama sa komputasyong ito ang mga produktong naabo ng sunog. Sa datos ng Market Superior’s Office, umabot sa mahigit tatlong daang tindahan o stalls sa palengke ang partially at totally damaged dahil sa sunog. Dahil sa napakalaking pinsala, […]
by Antonio Rodriguez Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — For the first time in years the International Monetary Fund is optimistic about global economic growth. But it sees a new problem: mounting debt in the world’s largest countries. “Debt levels are increasing in G20 economies,” Tobias Adrian, who heads the IMF’s monetary and capital markets division, said Wednesday. Among private businesses in those countries, leverage is higher than before the financial crisis. And the weight of […]
(Eagle News) — There is no longer any need for the impeachment trial of Commission on Elections Chair Andres Bautista if he steps down from his post. “Kung meron talagang resignation letter and deemed separated from government service na siya, e wala na. Dapat stop na yung impeachment..Kung umalis na siya sa posisyon, wala nang dahilan na magtuloy tuloy pa,” Senate President Koko Pimentel said in a radio interview on Thursday. So far, he said […]
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Gaza City (AFP) — Gazan Instagram stars want the world to get the picture they may not be able to leave without Israeli or Egyptian permission, but their photos can. Two Gazan women are among a small number of Instagram stars in the blockaded Palestinian enclave, showing followers a different side of their homeland from what much of the world may be used to hearing or seeing. “I see Instagram as a window,” says […]
by Julie Charpentrat with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco Agence France-Presse SANTA ROSA, United States (AFP) — More than 200 fire engines and firefighting crews from around the country were being rushed to California on Wednesday to help battle infernos which have left at least 23 people dead and thousands homeless. “This is a serious, critical, catastrophic event,” California fire chief Ken Pimlott told reporters. “We’re not going to be out of the woods for […]
The Senate is set to review the Anti-Hazing Law upon the urging of Senator Sherwin Gatchalian who has introduced in June 2016 Senate Bill 199 which sought to “prohibit hazing once and for all.” He has urged the Senate to simplify the existing Anti-Hazing Law of 1995, or Republic Act No. 8049, following the death of Horacio Castillo III. Castillo was a first year law student at the University of Santo Tomas who died allegedly […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — At least 37 people were killed and another 40 are missing as floods and landslides ravaged northern and central Vietnam, disaster officials said Thursday. Heavy rains lashed swathes of the country this week, with northern Hoa Binh province the hardest hit with 11 dead and 21 missing. “We are mobilizing all forces to search for the missing,” a disaster official in the province told AFP by phone. At least 37 people were killed across […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed officers in charge to the Departments of Information, Communications Technology, and the Department of Health. DICT Undersecretary Eliseo Mijares Rio Jr. will take the helm of the agency previously led by Rodolfo Salalima, who resigned in September. Reports, however, later said he was made to resign by President Rodrigo Duterte, following allegations he favored Globe over other telecommunications companies. DOH Undersecretary Herminigildo Valle, for his part, […]
