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ERC chief Salazar suspended for 4 months due to insubordination: PCOO official

  (Eagle News) — Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Jose Vicente Salazar was suspended for four months due to insubordination. This is according to Presidential Communications Operations Office Assistant Secretary Ana Maria Banaag, who held a press conference on Thursday. According to Banaag, the 4-month suspension without pay was apart from the 90-day suspension previously meted out on Salazar to give way to an inquiry into allegations of corruption made by then-ERC director Jose Villa. Villa, […]

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Heavy rainfall warning nakataas pa rin sa Zambales at Bataan

(Eagle News) — Itinaas ng Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) ang heavy rainfall warning sa Zambales at Bataan. Sa abiso ng PAGASA, yellow warning level ang umiiral sa dalawang lalawigan at nagbabala ito na maaaring makaranas ng pagbaha sa mga mabababang lugar. Ang Laguna, Quezon at Batangas ay makararanas din ng malakas na pag-ulan na may malakas na hangin. Ang Metro Manila partikular na ang Taguig, Parañaque, Las Piñas at Muntinlupa , […]

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Walang metro mayors na nasa drug list – NCRPO

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Walang mga mayor sa Metro Manila na kasama sa listahan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ng  mga politikong sangkot sa iligal na droga. Ito ay ayon kay National Capital Region Police Office Chief Oscar Albayalde. Ayon sa kaniya,  mga barangay captain at mga councilor na sangkot sa iligal na gawain na nahuli na ng kanilang hanay, o kaya yaong mga pinagtatatakpan ang mga opisyal na kasama sa drug trade ang […]

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Senator De Lima seeks Senate inquiry into Ozamiz raids; two senators say investigation could be in order

(Eagle News) — A Senate investigation into the Ozamiz raids that led to the deaths of Ozamiz Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr. and several others could be in order after Senator Leila de Lima filed a resolution for such. “I haven’t read the resolution yet. If witnesses are willing to face the Senate to testify on the probability of summary executions or excesses in the police operations conducted, I believe that an investigation is in order,” […]

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Dalawa pang bus terminal, inisyuhan ng closure order ng MMDA

(Eagle News) — Matapos masampulang maipasara ang ilang terminal ng bus sa EDSA Quezon City, dalawang terminal naman ang inisyuhan ng closure order ng mga awtoridad kamakailan. Unang nabulaga ang provincial bus terminal ng Pamar at Bragais nang inisyuhan ng closure order ni Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Danilo Lim kasama ang Pasay Business Processing and Licensing Office dahil sa wala umano itong business permit at hindi ito kumo-comply sa “Nose In, Nose Out Policy.” Mga […]

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Heat in S. Asia could exceed survivable levels by 2100: study

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — South Asia, home to one-fifth of the world’s population, could see humid heat rise to unsurvivable levels by century’s end if nothing is done to halt global warming, researchers said Wednesday. The study in the journal Science Advances warned of “summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.” The research is based on two climate models. One is a “business-as-usual” scenario […]

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Torrential rain and strong winds hit southwest China municipality

https://youtu.be/e1szlPL8a0s CHONGQING MUNICIPALITY, southwest China (CCTV) — Torrential rain and strong winds hit various parts of southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday. The downpour and strong winds disrupted traffic and flooded roadside shops in urban areas of Chongqing. Some vehicles were left trapped in the flood. The local police force implemented traffic control measures at some of the worst-hit road sections to stop drivers from driving dangerously in the flooded areas.

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MPD traffic chief, another Manila policeman sacked

(Eagle News) — The head of the Manila Police District’s Traffic Enforcement Unit and another policeman have been relieved from their posts. Supt. Lucile Faycho and P02 Joseph Buan were sacked by Chief Supt. Joel Coronel, MPD director, upon orders from Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada. The order came after Buan was arrested by members of the Philippine National Police’s Counter-intelligence Task Force in an entrapment operation on July 28. The police said they discovered that […]

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Fire rages near Oakland’s Grizzly Park

OAKLAND, California (AFP) — Firefighters responding from various units worked quickly to extinguish a vegetation fire near Grizzly Park in Oakland on Wednesday (August 2). Firefighters said the fire had reached a two-alarm status in scale, but that no structures of lives were in danger. The fire was partially contained by late afternoon, a local CBS affiliate reported, citing a local fire department responding to the blaze. Crews were at the scene fighting the blaze […]

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Tropical Malaysia chases Winter Olympics dream

KUALA, Lumpur (Reuters) — In the middle of a sprawling construction site, over a dozen young Malaysian men, sporting ice skates and protective gear, descend onto an indoor skating rink to do their morning drills amid a mist of condensation. They’re in equatorial Malaysia, where it is summer all year long, and training flat out for the debut of winter sports at the biennial Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which will be hosted by their home country […]

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US’ Tillerson won’t meet North Korea envoy at ASEAN talks in PHL

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will not meet his North Korean counterpart at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations forum in Manila and will instead push to deepen Pyongyang’s diplomatic isolation, a senior US official said Wednesday. North Korea’s push to build a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening US cities has brought the region to the brink of crisis, and Washington is using every diplomatic lever to shut the program down. But, in […]

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Philippine manufacturer buys US tech firm for $77M

Philippine electronics manufacturer Cirtek Electronics Corp. said Tuesday it had bought United States technology firm Quintel for $77 million, the latest in a trend of local companies acquiring foreign businesses. The purchase–fuelled by one of Asia’s  fastest-growing economies—reveals the latest trend of Filipino companies embarking in recent years on global expansion plans that analysts say are the biggest ever seen from the Philippines. Cirtek chief financial officer Tony Buyawe said the acquisition of the Silicon […]

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