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Agence France Presse — Limits on foreign ownership of the Philippine telecom industry should be lifted to attract investment and improve its service, a senior minister said Thursday. Currently foreign firms can own a maximum 40 per cent of Philippine utilities, including telecom companies, which should be raised, according to Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia. “If we want to attract foreign direct investment, they have to have a larger stake in the investment,” he told […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Former United States Secretary of State Madeline Albright called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as well as the Maute Group in the Philippines an “infectious virus”. “While much of the world’s attention is on the threat by ISIS, I’m keenly aware the Philippines and your neighbors are also under attack,” Albright said. “They are more dangerous. They are the product of a set of perverse and ambitious […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo said she was ready to face any planned impeachment case against her. “Handa naman tayong harapin. Wala tayong ginagawang mali. Bahagi naman iyan ng democratic process,” Robredo said in an interview. Robredo said though that impeachment was a political process and that the issues being thrown against her should have basis. Robredo added that she would continue to fulfill her duties as vice-president despite the […]
SHIMLA, India (AFP) — At least 28 people were killed Thursday after a bus plunged into a deep gorge in a Himalayan region of northern India popular with tourists, police said. The accident occurred around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the hill resort of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh state, said police superintendent Soumiya Sambasivan. “(Twenty-eight) people have died and seven are injured. All the bodies have been identified,” she said. The bus was taking around 40 […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean pop star T.O.P received Thursday a 10-month suspended jail sentence for smoking marijuana multiple times last year, weeks after being hospitalized for a drugs overdose. The 29-year-old rapper of K-pop boy band Big Bang had admitted in court to smoking marijuana on four occasions in his home in Seoul last October. “As Choi has admitted to the charges, he is found guilty,” Yonhap news agency cited a Seoul […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Food and consumer products giant Unilever said Thursday profits soared in the first half of 2017, raking in 3.3 billion euros after the Anglo-Dutch firm spurned a takeover bid by US rival Kraft Heinz. The 22.4 percent hike in the first six months compared to the same period last year showed “a substantial step-up in profitability despite the persisting volatile global trading environment,” chief executive Paul Polman said. “The transformation of […]
KOH SAMUI, Thailand (Reuters) — British actor Paul Nicholls has been rescued from a remote jungle waterfall on Thailand’s holiday island of Koh Samui after falling into a rockpool during a solo hike. The 38-year-old man, best known for acting in the BBC soap opera “Eastenders,” spent three days lying below the Khun Sri waterfall with a broken leg before he was rescued on July 13. Medics said he was also suffering from hypothermia. Nicholls’ absence […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Hundreds of refugees being held at a remote Papua New Guinea detention camp will be moved by October despite uncertainty over a resettlement deal with the United States, Australia’s immigration minister said Thursday. Canberra sends asylum-seekers who try to enter the country by boat to camps on Nauru and PNG’s Manus Island, with those found to be refugees barred from resettling in Australia. They are instead relocated to third countries, or resettled elsewhere in PNG. But the sudden withdrawal from PNG […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Scientists in California have created rewritable paper, printed using light instead of ink, that can be erased and reused up to 80 times. In the United States alone, about 70 million tons (63.5 million metric tons) of paper and paperboard are used each year, with more than 350 million magazines and 24 billion newspapers published, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The chemists at the University of California, Riverside, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Reuters) — The police said on Thursday (July 20) they had arrested 43 foreigners, mostly Chinese nationals, for kidnapping a Singaporean woman at a casino resort in the capital. Police said the gang, believed to be a loan shark syndicate, was targeting foreign high-rollers, with 11 similar cases reported since 2015 involving two groups composed of Chinese and Singaporean citizens. The 48-year-old Singaporean woman was kidnapped at the Solaire casino on July 17 […]
These are just some of the fantastic views of the 62-acre town of Johnsonville, Connecticut, which was once a thriving mill community, a Victorian Era tourist attraction, that had been abandoned for years. The beautiful abandoned old town was featured in an episode of the National Geographic TV series “Abandoned.” It was put up for sale at an online auction on October 28, 2014. The Iglesia Ni Cristo is now the new owner of […]
(Eagle News) — Tatlong bus terminal ang ipinasara ng Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) dahil sa pag-ooperate nang walang permit ng Quezon City at paglabag sa “Nose-in, Nose-out policy” na pinaiiral sa mga terminal sa EDSA. Ang DLTB bus terminal ay nagkusa nang nagsara dahil walang terminal permit. Samantala ang Roro Bus Line at Dimple Star ay inabutang nag ooperate pa at agad na pinatawan ng closure order dahil wala ring barangay permit. Matapos mapatawan […]
