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IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (Eagle News) – Puspusan ngayon ang ginagawang recruitment ng 102nd Brigade para sa mga gustong magsilbi sa bayan bilang sundalo. Kaya tinipon nila ang mga aplikante at sumailalim ang mga ito sa screening test ng brigade na nakabase sa Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Sinalubong ng mga aplikante ang pagsikat ng araw sa Ipil Air Field upang magpakitang-gilas sa limitadong oras ng set ng sit-up, push up, at 3.2 kilometer run. Bahagi into ng […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte revealed alleged plans of terrorists to attack three provinces of Mindanao in a meeting with senators on Tuesday, August 1. This was bared by Senator Vicente”Tito” Sotto on Wednesday, August 2, a day after the meeting in Malacanang with the President. He said the President informed the leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, including the opposition of the situation in Mindanao. “Meron discovered […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia has seized elephant tusks and pangolin scales from Africa worth almost a million dollars, an official said Wednesday, highlighting the country’s role as a hub for smuggling rare animal parts. The contraband was found in two separate raids in the cargo terminal of Kuala Lumpur’s main international airport on Sunday, customs officials said. In the first raid, authorities found 23 ivory tusks, weighing 75.7 kilograms (167 pounds) with an […]
TORONTO, Canada (Reuters) — The largest heart ever seen has gone on display at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). The organ belonged to one of two blue whales whose carcasses washed up on the shores of Trout River in Newfoundland and Labrador province three years ago. “Blue whale carcasses are very rare because most of the time they sink, as they don’t have as much fat or blubber as other whale species,” Burton Lim, Assistant […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte decided to retain Nicanor Faeldon as Customs Commissioner amid hearings being done at the House of Representatives on the controversial Php 6.4 billion worth of shabu that managed to pass through the Bureau of Customs. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said that the President still expressed confidence and trust in Commissioner Faeldon. “The President has met Bureau of Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon (Tuesday) afternoon. The Chief […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte urged senators to “do something about” the lowest-bid rule, saying this was the primary source of corruption. In a speech during the 113th founding anniversary of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Duterte said this is what he asked Senators Franklin Drilon, Francis Escudero, Ping Lacson and Gringo Honasan to do in a meeting with them on Tuesday. “Iyan talaga (ang pinakasource) ng corruption,” he said. “Pag manalo iyan (lowest […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — A man opened fire at the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday (August 1) morning and then took his own life, police said. There were no other injuries in the shooting, which took place at about 6 a.m. before the consulate was open for the day, said Officer Michael Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department. Police say “Numerous rounds impacted the Chinese consulate,” and that the man was […]
OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental (Eagle News) – Dalawang konsehal muna ng Ozamiz City ang pansamantalang manunungkulan bilang Mayor at Vice Mayor doon. Ito ay kasunod ng pagkamatay ni Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog, Sr. at pagkaaresto naman ni Vice Mayor Nova Parojinog-Echavez. Pansamantalang uupo bilang mayor si Second City Councilor Girlet Luansing samantalang uupo naman bilang Vice Mayor si Third Councilor Michael Tagal. Si First City Councilor Ricardo Parojinog na siya sanang dapat maging “caretaker mayor” batay […]
(Eagle News) — An impeachment complaint was filed on Wednesday against Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption and the Vanguard of the Philippine Constitution Inc. included in their complaint accusations leveled by Associate Justice Teresita de Castro against the Chief Justice, in a five-page memorandum sent to the other magistrates on July 10. The groups said Sereno had “culpably violated” the Constitution after she issued an administrative order […]
by Jung Ha-Won Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s latest missile test has extended the range of its weapons to much of mainland United States and raised a new fear in the South: would Washington protect Seoul when that could put American cities in danger? The US is security guarantor for the democratic and capitalist South, where 28,500 US troops are stationed to defend it from Pyongyang after the 1950-53 Korean […]
(Eagle News) — Inabisuhan ng Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) ang mga may-ari ng mga sasakyang nasa kanilang impounding centers na bawiin na ang mga ito hanggang Agosto 29. Sinabi ni MMDA Operations Supervisor Bong Nebrija, kailangang magbayad muna ng multa ang mga may-ari at kapag bigong matubos ang mga nasabing sasakyan ay kanila na itong ipapa-auction. Kung ang nahuling behikulo ay nag-ooperate nang walang franchise, ang may-ari ay magbabayad ng anim na libong piso […]
(Eagle News) — Take a leave of absence or resign. This was the message of minority bloc solons in the House of Representatives to Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, who has been accused of incompetence after a P6.4-billion drug shipment entered the country. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency National Capital Region chief Wilkins Villanueva also accused Faeldon of refusing to conduct a “control-delivery” of the six crates containing the illegal substance found in Valenzuela warehouses in May, […]
