Eagle News — Telecommunication giants Globe Telecommunications Company, Smart Communications and PLDT Inc., launched on Monday, June 12, the free WiFI connection, project along the 23.8 kilometer Epifanio de los Santos Avenue or EDSA. The project was launched in coordination with the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) along the stretch of EDSA that traverses Caloocan, Quezon City, San Juan, Pasay, Mandaluyong and Makati. According to Smart and Globe, the free WiFi can be used for the […]
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Ginunita sa iba’t-ibang panig ng bansa ang Ika-119 anibersaryo ng Kalayaan
Eagle News Cavite – Pinangunahan nina Senador Panfilo Lacson at Toursim Secretary Wanda Teo ang pagdiriwang ng 119th Independence Day Celebration sa Kawit, Cavite. Kasama sa mga naging aktibidad sa pagdiriwang ang pagtataas ng watawat ng Pilipinas sa balkonahe ng mansyon ni Hen. Emilio Aguinaldo kung saan doon din unang iwinagayway ang bandila ng Pilipinas. Matapos ito ay ang wreath laying activity naman sa puntod ni Hen. Aguinaldo. Batangas – Ginunita […]
Independence Day job fair, isinagawa sa Urdaneta, Pangasinan
URDANETA CITY, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Mahigit 5,000 trabaho ang inialok sa mga taga-Urdaneta City at sa mga karatig bayan nito sa isinagawang Independence Day Mega Job Fair ngayong araw (June 12). Ang aktibidad na ito ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ay may kaugnayan sa selebrasyon ng kalayaan ng bansa na may temang “Pagbabagong Sama-samang Balikatin.” Ayon kay Fresnaida A. Gundan, Head-Eastern Pangasinan Field Office ng DOLE-Region 1, may 20 overseas at 50 local recruitment […]
119th Independence Day, ipinagdiwang sa Roxas, Palawan
ROXAS, Palawan (Eagle News) – Sa Roxas, Palawan ay maagang pinasimulan ang pagdiriwang ng ika-119 na anibersaryo ng kalayaan ng bansa. Nilahukan ang isang parada ng lahat ng mga kawani mula sa iba’t ibang opisina ng lokal ng pamahalaan, kabilang ang mga nasa hukbong tagapamayapa ng bayan sa pangunguna ng kanilang mga in-charge officers. Kasama sa naging pagdiriwang ang pag-aalay ng bulaklak sa bantayog ng pambansang bayani. Nagbigay ng iba’t ibang inspirational messages ang mga kinatawan […]
Gulf crisis threatens Qatar Airways transit business: experts
by Ali Khalil Agence France Presse DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Qatar Airways has made Doha a global hub in just a few years, but barring it from Gulf states’ airspace threatens its position as a major transcontinental carrier, experts say. Along with its Gulf peers — Dubai’s Emirates Airlines and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad — Qatar’s national carrier has captured a sizable portion of transit travel, capitalising on the Gulf’s central geographic location. But […]
New Zealand opposition plans to slash immigration
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand’s main opposition party Monday announced plans to almost halve immigration numbers if it wins a September election, with the clampdown focused on international students. Labor Party leader Andrew Little said it was “time for a breather on immigration” in the nation, which has experienced record annual net arrivals of about 70,000 in recent years. Little said his center-left party would cut that by up to 30,000 a year, […]
China’s only artificially-bred snow leopard turns one year old
CHINA (Reuters) – The only snow leopard cub alive by artificial breeding in China turned one year old on Saturday. It lives at a wildlife zoo in Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai Province. It is 80 centimeters in length, 48 centimeters in height and 18.5 kilograms in weight. Given the high death rate of snow leopard cubs, its survival is of great significance to research on and protection of this endangered animal, which in […]
Japan zoo celebrates birth of panda cub
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese zoo celebrated the first birth of a baby panda in five years Monday, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand. Eleven-year-old mum Shin Shin gave birth just before noon, officials at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo said in a statement. Pandas are born pink, hairless and weigh around 100 grams — so small it can be difficult to determine their sex. “There have […]
Trump faces lawsuit over business empire: report
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Officials in Maryland and the United States capital Washington will sue President Donald Trump for accepting payments and benefits from foreign governments through his business empire, news reports said Sunday night. The suit to be unveiled Monday centers on the so-called emoluments clause, which bans US officials from taking gifts or other benefits from foreign governments. A nongovernment organization that centers on ethics issues filed a similar suit in January. […]
Tokyo stocks down after high-tech sell-off
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo shares fell Monday as technology shares took a hit, but news of a baby panda’s birth at a Tokyo zoo sent shares in a local restaurant skyrocketing some 38 percent. The benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.52 percent, or 104.68 points, to 19,908.58 while the Topix index of all first-section issues was flat, edging down 0.01 percent, or 0.11 points, to 1,591.55. © Agence France-Presse
Melania Trump and son Barron officially move into White house
(Reuters) – United States First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump will now officially call the White House ‘home.’ They arrived with President Donald Trump in Washington on Sunday (June 11), in what the media said was their official moving day at the presidential residence. Melania Trump and Barron remained in New York after Trump’s inauguration in order to allow Barron to finish out the school year. Ahead of their arrival on Sunday, […]
Flower power: gardening as therapy in Poland
by Michel Viatteau Agence France Presse RUSKIE PIASKI, Poland (AFP) — An elderly woman leans over to smell a lush flowerbed of lavender in sprawling gardens surrounding an imposing early 20th-century palace in a pastoral corner of eastern Poland. Slowly a smile lights up her face, erasing her previous stony expression — she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which often renders her emotionless. The sudden burst of happiness is one of the benefits of horticultural, or […]
