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HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (Reuters) — Dmitry Koltakov won the 2017 Ice Speedway World Championship on Sunday (April 2) in the Dutch city of Heerenveen despite crashing out at the final corner of the final round. The Russian led the final round from the start carrying a very comfortable lead in the overall standings and looked set to finish the championship with yet another win. But Koltakov, tailed by Dmitry Khomitsevic, crashed out in the final corner […]
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) — It’s one of the most valuable agricultural commodities in the world and yet scientists know surprisingly little about coffee. “When we started looking at coffee we started to realize that it is kind of like an orphan crop. Very little has been done in introducing advance genetic technology to improve coffee,” said Juan Medrano, a professor of genomics at the University of California Davis. But now the secrets behind what […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea’s Lotte Group will continue to invest in its China business despite diplomatic tensions over the deployment of a United States missile defense system, a Lotte’s top executive, Hwang Kag-gyu, said on Monday (April 3), denying rumors it wants to scale back its China operations. Chinese authorities last month closed dozens of Lotte retail stores following inspections, ramping up pressure on South Korea’s fifth-largest family-run conglomerate after it agreed to provide […]
DAPITAN CITY, Zamboanga del Norte (Eagle News) – Binuksan na sa publiko ang habal-habal terminal na ipinagkaloob ng Lokal na Pamamahalaan sa Barangay Bagting, Dapitan City. Isinagawa ang pormal na pagbubukas sa pamamagitan ng cutting of ribbons at turn-over ceremony na dinaluhan ni City Administrator Wilberth Magallanes, OIC, City Engineer Gerry Icao, at Joseph Alvi Agolong, Economic Enterprise Head. Sinaksihan rin ito ng mga opisyales sa naturang barangay at ng mga habal-habal driver. Layunin aniya ng pagtatayo […]
(Eagle News) — A co-accused of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in a case over the alleged misuse of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office P366-million confidential and intelligence funds has been acquitted. This after the Sandiganbayan First Division granted Maria Fatima Valdes’ demurrer to evidence, which sought the dismissal of the case because of the prosecution’s allegedly weak evidence. In July last year, Arroyo was also acquitted of the charge. In acquitting her, the Supreme […]
MARIANA TRENCHES, Pacific Ocean (Reuters) — A study of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana and Kermadec trenches has found man-made pollutants in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean. Small crustaceans called amphipods, which populate the deepest recesses of the Pacific, were found to contain disturbingly large levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the organism’s fatty tissue. Voracious eaters who will eat anything that comes their way, amphipods are ideal for such research. Amphipod samples […]
(Eagle News) — Only a court of law can mete out any form of penalty against anyone violating the laws of the country. This was the response of Senator Panfilo Lacson to a statement over the weekend from the National Democratic Front ordering the arrest of President Benigno Aquino III over the violent dispersal of farmers in Kidapawan on April 1, last year. Aside from Aquino, also ordered arrested were Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, North […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — LeBron James scored a 40-point triple-double as the Cleveland Cavaliers stayed on the heels of Eastern Conference leaders Boston with a 135-130 double overtime win over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday. James finished with 41 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists for his 11th triple-double of the season and the 53rd of his career in a crucial win for the Cavaliers in Cleveland. Pacers star Paul George led the […]
CHESTER, ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A quartet of eye-catching new individuals arrived at Chester Zoo, England. Native to Madagascar, the distinctive looking lowland streaked tenrecs are “striped like a bee and covered in spines like a hedgehog,” the zoo said in an e-mail. A video shot on Monday (March 27) shows the little known animals as they explore their habitat at the facility. The new arrivals are believed to be the only lowland streaked […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea, Japan and the United States held a joint naval exercise Monday aimed at countering missile threats from North Korean submarines, Seoul’s defense ministry said, amid mounting concerns over the hermit state’s weapons program. Pyongyang is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US mainland with a nuclear warhead, and has so far staged five nuclear tests, two of them last year. The three-day […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he would now reveal all the anomalies regarding the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) committed by the previous Aquino administration, including the misuse of these funds that had already been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. He said he would reveal how the DAP funds had been misused during the term of former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, and pointed particularly to former Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad, […]
XINJIANG, China (CCTV) — Two successive landslides hit northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region over the past weekend, interrupting local traffic and killing livestock. The two landslides happened within less than nine hours. On Saturday night, the first landslide hit Yining County around 18:00. Large amounts of debris blocked many major roads. The second landslide occurred in the same county at 02:00 of Sunday, burying 397 animals. The local government in Yining County evacuated residents […]
