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(Eagle News) — The Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board on Tuesday denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Uber on its one-month suspension. In a two-and-a-half page order, the LTFRB said the transport network company had violated the agency’s July 26 order for it to cease and desist from accepting applications for accreditation of Transport Network Vehicle Services. The July 26 order was issued after Uber and another TNC, Grab, were found to have […]
(Eagle News) — One person, and not two as earlier reported by authorities, was killed and four others were injured after a cement mixer fell on its side and crushed a car in Quezon City on Tuesday. Celine Pialago, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority spokesperson, said the incident in front of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology on Mindanao Ave. took place past 4 p.m. The complete name of the fatality who was the driver […]
A total of 150 professional boxers have been banned for falsifying brain scan results aimed at detecting serious head injuries in the sport, the Games and Amusements Board said on Tuesday. The board found 150 boxers had submitted “fake” CT scan results this year, apparently because they could not afford an actual test, GAB medical officer Radentor Viernes told AFP. GAB chairman Abraham Kahlil Mitra said many success-starved Filipino fighters were earning puny prizes and could […]
SHAOYANG CITY, China (CCTV) — Heavy rainfall in China’s Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has claimed a total of nine lives and one missing, local authorities said Monday. The rainwater, which accumulated in Hunan’s Shaoyang City and Guangxi’s Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, has turned the two places into Asian Venice, a well-known Italian city, while locals had to paddle boats to commute between places. Continuous rainfall in central China’s Hunan since last Friday […]
VILLA DE REI MUNICIPALITY, Portugal (CCTV) — The Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME) deployed 116 military personnel and 26 vehicles on Monday to battle Portugal’s wildfire in the center of the country, according to reports. The troops came from the First and Fifth Battalion Emergency Intervention with headquarters in Madrid and Leon respectively, the Emergency Support and Intervention Regiment and the Transmission Battalion in Madrid, detailed the UME. The deployment has been carried out near […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation has filed criminal complaints against the nine individuals believed behind the entry of a P6.4-billion drug shipment in the country in May via express lanes. Taiwanese Chen I. Min and Jhu Ming Jyun; chairman of Philippine Hongfei Logistics Group of Companies Chen Ju Long (alias Richard Tan or Richard Chen); Chinese national Li Guang Feng; warehouse caretaker Fidel Anoche Dee; businessman Dong Yi Shen (alias Kenneth Dong); […]
(Eagle News) — Policemen killed 21 drug suspects and arrested 64 more in an overnight buy-bust operation in Bulacan on Monday night that lasted until Tuesday morning, a police official said. Senior Superintendent Romeo Caramat Jr., Bulacan provincial police director, said that the buy-bust operation was done with the implementation of two search warrants. The raids will continue until tonight, August 15, he said. Caramat also said that a total of 21 firearms and 100 […]
Mainit man, hindi ininda ito ng mga artista, direktor at lahat ng mga bumubuo sa isang dosenang pelikulang kalahok ng parating na Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino o PPP. Nag-motorcade ang mga kalahok sa sampung pelikula sa pangunguna ni Film Development Council of the Philippines head Liza Dino. Bawat pelikula ay may kanya-kanyang float kung saan nakasakay ang mga cast at director.
(Eagle News) — National Bureau of Investigation agents arrested the alleged middleman in the P6.4-billion drug shipment that entered the country in May after the Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on Tuesday. NBI deputy director Ferdinand Lavin said in an ambush interview that Kenneth Dong was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by the Paranaque regional trial court in connection with a case of rape he is facing. In a press conference, […]
New Delhi, India (AFP) — India can defend itself from anyone who seeks “to act against our country,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an Independence Day speech Tuesday amid a tense standoff with Beijing over a Himalayan plateau. “Security is our top priority,” Modi said in a speech before thousands at the landmark Red Fort in New Delhi as the country marked the 70th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule. “Be it the sea […]
YIGO, Guam (Reuters) — There was a sense of relief throughout Guam on Tuesday (August 15), as Kim Jong Un signalled a pause in his plan to fire missiles to land in waters near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. Residents in Guam were reassured about Kim Jong Un’s change of plans, “No attack? Awesome. What else, can I say, right?” said Perez. “(If) he had decided to move on with what he had promised, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo shares rebounded Tuesday morning after four days of losses as fears over a US-North Korea military conflict began to recede. Before the Japanese market opened, North Korean state media reported that leader Kim Jong-Un had been briefed on the plan to fire missiles toward the US Pacific territory of Guam, but hinted he would hold off on the provocative launch. That came after US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary […]
