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CCTV — A severe cold wave has hit the United States Midwest, including Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, drastically lowering temperatures across the region. Chicago, the capital of Illinois, experienced its lowest temperature of 23 degrees Celsius on Dec 18, which almost matched the city’s record low temperature of 23.3 degrees Celsius, that happened on the same day in 1983. In order to ensure road safety in the region, Illinois sent more than 1,700 snow sweepers […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – House Appropriations Committee Chair Carlo Nograles warned government officials that they will be removed from their positions if they will not use all of their budget. Nograles said that under-utilization of the budget allocated for them means that the government officials concerned are not fully giving the level of service needed by the public. He said this is also based on the statement of President Rodrigo Duterte who does […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic managers are asking for the implementation of an increase in the Social Security System’s monthly contributions in preparation for the proposed Php 2,000 pension hike.
QUEZON City, Philippines – Malacañang assured that the two officials of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) – Deputy Commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles – will face criminal complaints because of their alleged acceptance of bribe money from gambling lord Jack Lam. The Department of Justice (DOJ) already formed an investigating team as per the order of President Rodrigo Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte himself fired the two officials for the unlawful conduct. Even before he […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kabayan Representative Harry Roque recommended that the Philippine government should protest the activities of the United States of America and China in the Philippine territory in the West Philippine Sea. Roque made the recommendation after an unmanned underwater probe belonging to the US was confiscated by China inside the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone, indicating that both countries are active inside Philippine territorial waters.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A rainbow-headed snake, a tiny frog and a lizard with dragon-like horns are among more than 150 new species confirmed by scientists last year in the ecologically diverse but threatened Mekong region, researchers said on Monday. Winding its way from the Tibetan plateau through the mountains and jungles of Southeast Asia, the Mekong river helps sustain one of the most diverse regions on the planet. Each year scientists announce new species, […]
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has issued a public advisory on Monday (December 19) on the demise of a 74-year old Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) in Lebanon, asking the relatives to coordinate with them so the OFW’s body could be flown home. Azucena Billones, a 74 year-old OFW in Lebanon died on December 9, because of cancer. DFA requests the public’s assistance in locating Billones’ relatives. Before she died, she said that she has a daughter, Myrna […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The United States of America will talk with the Philippine government after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to cancel the Visiting Forces Agreement when the US postponed $433 million worth of humanitarian assistance to the Philippines due to the human rights situation in the country.
(Eagle News) — Dahil sa malalakas na buhos ng ulan, libu-libong pamilya ang lumikas sa ilang bayan sa eastern Samar. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) ang bumuhos na ulang ito sa probinsya nitong Sabado ay katumbas na ng ulan sa loob ng kalahating buwan ng Disyembre. https://youtu.be/qSIqoVEi4mk
STO. TOMAS, Pangasinan (Eagle News) — Mahigit apat-na-raang mga bata ang nakinabang sa isinagawang libreng dental-check up ng Philippine Dental Association-Pangasinan Chapter at lokal na pamahalaan ng Sto. Tomas, Pangasinan. Ang nasabing programa ay may temang “Ngiti Mo, Sagot Ko.” Bukod sa libreng serbisyo, sumailalim din sa oral health education ang mga bata sa pangunguna ni Dra. Liza Codilla, presidente ng PDA-Pangasinan Chapter. Tumanggap din sila ng dental hygiene kit tulad ng sipilyo at toothpaste. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The US Marines on Monday resumed flights of their controversial Osprey aircraft in Japan, less than a week after a crash off the southern island of Okinawa sparked local protests. Last Tuesday an MV-22 Osprey made what Marines called a “controlled landing” just off the Okinawan coast during a night training flight that left the aircraft in pieces. No one was killed but the accident sparked anger on the island — […]
