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New Customs commissioner Lapeña abolishes Faeldon-created Comcen

  (Eagle News) – Newly installed commissioner of the Bureau of Customs, Isidro Lapeña, has abolished the bureau’s Command Center which was created by his predecessor Nicanor Faeldon to issue alert orders for incoming shipments at the customs bureau. Lapeña, through Customs Memorandum Order No. 14-2017, abolished Comcen saying that this creation was not mandated by law. The order “reverted to the deputy commissioners of the Intelligence Group, Enforcement Group, and all district collectors nationwide […]

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DOJ orders NBI to look into death of former UP student in Caloocan

(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice on Monday ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to look into the death of a 19-year-old former University of the Philippines student who was killed in what Caloocan police said was a shootout that ensued after the teenager–who had supposedly robbed a taxi— fired at them. Aguirre gave the order after the Public Attorneys’ Office released its results on its forensic analysis of Carl Angelo Arnaiz. Arnaiz’s parents […]

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South Korea, US to deploy more anti-missile defenses: Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – South Korea and the United States will deploy more anti-missile defenses in response to Sunday’s nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday. The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system already installed in the South has infuriated China, but the ministry said in a statement that the “Four remaining launchers will soon be temporarily deployed through consultations between South Korea and the US to counter growing nuclear and […]

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Japan, China say no radiation detected after North Korea nuke test

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Japan and China said Monday they had not yet detected any atmospheric radiation from North Korea’s nuclear test, amid fears of a leak from a “cave in” during the underground blast. Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters there was “nothing special detected from monitoring posts across the country,” nor from air samples taken by the Air Self-Defense Force after Sunday’s blast. China’s environment ministry said Monday that radiation levels […]

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South Korea estimates North’s nuclear test at 50 kilotons

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea’s nuclear test on Sunday had an estimated strength of 50 kilotons, defense ministry officials told a parliamentary briefing on Monday. That would make it five times the size of the North’s previous test in September last year, and more than three times bigger than the US device that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. (Agence France-Presse)

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UN says 87,000 refugees arrive in Bangladesh from Myanmar

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AFP) – A total of 87,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since violence erupted in neighboring Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations said Monday. Thousands of the stateless Muslim minority have fled the mainly Buddhist nation and poured over the border since the latest round of fighting broke out, piling pressure on the already overcrowded camps in Bangladesh. Around 20,000 more were massed on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar’s […]

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Fear and sweating in Pakistan’s hottest cities

by Maaz Khan Agence France-Presse   SIBI, Pakistan (AFP) – After hours toiling at construction sites in 50 degree-plus heat, Lakhmir Brahmani finds little relief from the sun other than a donkey-powered fan during the dog days of summer in one of Pakistan’s hottest cities. Scientists have warned that swathes of South Asia may be uninhabitable due to rising temperatures by 2100 — and in the desert community of Sibi in southwest Balochistan province, where […]

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US warns N. Korea of ‘massive military response’ after nuke test

  by Brian Knowlton with Sebastien Berger in Seoul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States warned it could launch a “massive military response” to any threats from North Korea following Pyongyang’s provocative detonation of what it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke out on Sunday after North Korea carried out an unexpectedly strong nuclear test, more powerful than the bomb that levelled Hiroshima in 1945. […]

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Football: S.Korea coach promises World Cup victory in Tashkent

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Under-fire coach Shin Tae-Yong has promised South Korea will “beef up their mental strength” and go all out for the victory against Uzbekistan Tuesday that would secure World Cup qualification for a ninth successive time. “We’ll return home with victory no matter what,” vowed Shin ahead of the final Asian zone Group A encounter in Tashkent. The Taeguk Warriors, with just one win in their last five qualifiers, could only manage a goalless […]

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Military: Abdullah Maute dead

(Eagle News) — Abdullah Maute is dead. “(He) is already killed. Chatter over Telegram indicates he is killed,” Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez, chief of the Western Mindanao Command, said in a press conference in Marawi City on Monday, September 4. He was referring to the application the Maute group reportedly used to communicate with the Islamic State, the international terrorist group to which they pledged allegiance. Galvez said the military translated some messages in Arabic. […]

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JUST IN: Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, Mans Carpio to attend Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on Thursday

(Eagle News) — Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and Mans Carpio will be attending the Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on Thursday. The President’s son and son-in-law confirmed their attendance only hours after the Senate blue ribbon committee issued the invitation for them to attend. “We duly recognize the coercive powers of the Senate of the Philippines as part of the legislative branch of government and their authority to conduct an inquiry in aid of […]

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Asian markets, won sink after N.Korea’s latest nuclear test

  HONG KONG, CHINA (AFP) — Asian stocks tumbled with the South Korean won Monday while the safe haven yen rallied on news that North Korea had tested what it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, ramping up tensions on the peninsula. Less than a week after it rattled global markets by firing a rocket over Japan, Pyongyang on Sunday conducted its sixth nuclear test, sparking further condemnation and a warning from defence secretary Jim […]

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