Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Serbian guard Bogdan Bogdanovic will become the highest-paid rookie in NBA history after agreeing to a three-year deal worth $36 million with the Sacramento Kings, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday. The 24-year-old from Belgrade, who helped Serbia capture 2016 Rio Olympic silver, was this season’s Turkish League Most Valuable Player while leading Fenerbahce to its first EuroLeague title last month. Bogdanovic — who has no relation to Croatian guard […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Chris Paul was traded from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday in the first major NBA talent move of the off-season with free agency looming Saturday. The 32-year-old point guard, who helped the United States win Olympic gold in 2008 at Beijing and 2012 at London, joins shooting guard James Harden in what might be the NBA’s most dynamic backcourt next season. In exchange, the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Samsung plans to invest $380 million and hire nearly 1,000 workers for a new plant in South Carolina to manufacture home appliances, the company announced Wednesday. Samsung Electronics America described it as a “state of the art” facility that starting next year will build premium home products, including washing machines, and will be staffed with craftsmen, engineers and operators. United States Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who is leading President […]
ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — Could scent-delivery systems improve your driving or help inform your route planning while behind the wheel? These are among the questions being asked by University of Sussex researchers testing four commercially available scent delivery systems rigged up to a car driving simulator. Postdoctoral researcher Emanuela Maggioni told Reuters that vision and sound have long been the dominant modalities for drivers, but that our sense of smell could have a future […]
MAGSAYSAY, Misamis Oriental (Eagle News) – Hinalughog ng Magsaysay Municipal Police ang beach house ni ex-Marawi City Mayor Fajad Salic sa Misamis Oriental, at nakumpiska ang iba’t ibang uri ng pampasabog. Nakumpiska mula sa beach house niya sa Purok 5, Brgy. Consuelo, Magsaysay ang: 1 pc mk2 fragmentation grenade 2 pcs rifle grenades with canister 1 pc 40mm cartridge 30 rounds 5.56mm live ammunition 6 pcs metal tube 1 customized electric switch 1 pc pilot valve […]
JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) — Israel hit a Syrian regime position on Wednesday night after stray mortar fire from the war-torn country struck the occupied Golan Heights, in the third such exchange within a week. A military spokesperson said a mortar round had hit open ground in the Israeli-controlled zone of the plateau and “forces responded and targeted the Syrian army position that fired the mortar.” She did not say if the Israeli retaliatory fire had […]
TAYUG, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Muling nagsagawa ng unannounced drug testing sa mga reformist sa Tayug, Pangasinan bilang bahagi ng ng kanilang community-based rehabilitation program. Ang drug testing ay isa sa mga requirement sa ilalim ng rehabilitation program ng mga reformist upang maialis ang kanilang mga pangalan sa watchlist. Mayroon namang nairekomenda ang Philippine National Police-Tayug na 30 reformist sa Pangasinan Provincial Office at Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency para sa delisting. Ito ay naghihintay na lang […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In arrived in Washington Wednesday on his first overseas trip since taking office, for planned talks with his United States counterpart Donald Trump. Moon, who backs engagement with nuclear-armed North Korea, was to meet Thursday with Trump during his first foreign outing since being sworn in last month after a landslide election win. Late Wednesday, he was scheduled to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday delivered a rare statement at the United Nations Security Council, accusing the United States of attaching “unjust” conditions to its offer of talks on Pyongyang’s military programs. Deputy Ambassador Kim in Ryong said it would be a “fatal miscalculation” by countries to believe that the latest sanctions imposed by the council will deter North Korea from developing its nuclear forces. “Their mean and indiscreet act […]
China on Wednesday donated thousands of guns to the Philippines to help Manila in its battle against Islamist gunmen who are holed up in Marawi. The shipment of assault and sniper rifles and ammunition is the first example of Chinese military aid since President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to move away from Manila’s traditional ally America and seek Beijing’s support. It came after China donated P15 million for the rehabilitation of the war-stricken city in Mindanao. […]
Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that he would only lift martial law in Mindanao only when the miltary and those in the know would say that it is time to lift it. In his speech when he accepted the military assistance from China in Clark Air Base in Pampanga, the President said it is only the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police that would be able to say when […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he was set to visit Marawi to check the situation there. “I cannot just sit on my a** sa opisina ko. Hirap ang tao doon,” Duterte said in groundbreaking rites of the Presidential Security Group Hospital in Malacanang Park. In his speech, the President said he “really wallow(s) in sorrow” as he was the one who gave the orders for government troops to go to Marawi and fight […]
