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QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) assured the public that there will be no increase in toll rates this coming January 2017. This is despite numerous petitions filed by toll operators asking for an increase in toll rates. https://youtu.be/lH2n6RALVxM
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Department of Health (DOH) placed all the Private and Government Hospitals nationwide under Code White Alert on Wednesday (December 21) to make sure all the hospitals have enough manpower and medical supplies for the expected rise in firecracker-related injuries. A day after the announcement of Code White, Director IV of Bureau of Local Health Systems Development, Enrique Tayag gave an update on the latest firecracker victims. In his post […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — NBA scoring leader Russell Westbrook put on another display of offensive fireworks Wednesday, pouring in 42 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 121-110 NBA victory over the Pelicans in New Orleans. Westbrook flirted with a triple-double, finishing 10 rebounds and seven assists. But Westbrook had plenty of help from the Thunder’s supporting cast. He was on the bench early in the fourth quarter when Oklahoma City’s […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Landbank of the Philippines announced that it will establish a bank for overseas Filipino workers on September 2017. This is in connection to the plan of the Landbank to acquire Philippine Postal Service Bank or PostBank from the Philippine Postal Corporation. After the acquisition, PostBank will become a subsidiary of Landbank, with a percentage set aside for ownership of OFWs. Landbank president Alex Buenaventura said that it would […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — One night after Memphis coach David Fizdale criticized his team’s leadership, Grizzlies captain Marc Gasol matched his NBA career high with 38 points in a 98-86 victory over the Detroit Pistons. The effort from the Spanish big man, who connected on 14 of 17 shots from the floor, helped the Grizzlies snap a three-game skid. He said he hadn’t realized as he stepped to the foul line with 36.4 […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Persons With Disabilities (PWD) can now enjoy their expanded benefits and privileges this coming year in light of the implementation of Republic Act 10754. Under the law, PWDs will be entitled to the following benefits and privileges such as: at least twenty percent (20%) discount and exemption from the value-added tax (VAT) in various commodities like land, sea and air transportation, medical and dental fees, medicines, funeral and burial services and […]
(Eagle News) — The Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Republic of the Philippines opened a book of condolences today, Thursday, to allow those in Manila to register their sympathies for the tragic death of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Mr. Andrey G. Karlov. The book of condolences will be open at the Embassy (1245, Acacia Road, Dasmarinas Village, Makati) today, Thursday, December 22, 2016 from 9 a.m. until 12 noon and from 2 […]
by Deborah Cole with Michelle Fitpatrick Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German authorities were under fire Thursday after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin’s deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist. German prosecutors have issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for 24-year-old Anis Amri, offering a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information leading to his arrest and warning he “could be violent and armed”. Asylum […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte continues to have an “excellent” trust rating among Filipinos for this fourth quarter, with a +72 net trust rating, considered as one of the highest ever achieved by a Philippine president. The figure however also represents a slight drop from the previous quarter’s +76 net trust rating in the September SWS survey. The December 2016 Social Weather Survey was conducted from December 3-6, 2016 using face-to-face interviews of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan said on Thursday it has paid millions of dollars in UNESCO annual funding dues after holding back the payment over a World War II-era history row. UNESCO, the UN cultural and scientific body, last year agreed to China’s request to include documents in its Memory of the World register recording atrocities by Japanese troops after the fall of the Chinese city of Nanjing 1937. Japan — one of UNESCO’s biggest contributors […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named billionaire Carl Icahn, a vocal critic of what he calls government over regulation, to serve as a special adviser to overhaul “strangling regulations.” He also tapped Peter Navarro, an outspoken China critic, to head the White House National Trade Council, a new office that will oversee trade and industrial policy, in the latest sign he is moving ahead with plans to overhaul US economic […]
Ondrej Prusa, a 26-year old former DJ, has an enviable problem: his firm making three-dimensional printers is growing so fast he had to install a car-sized diesel generator to his downtown Prague plant to ease burden on the power network. Prusa became interested in printing in his DJ era when he needed to create sound controllers. He made adjustments to freely-available designs, and eventually set up his business. Prusa’s office is packed with colourful print […]
