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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba signed a deal with Google Monday to enable faster access to content from the US tech giant on the communist island, where internet service is notoriously limited and slow. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, signed the deal in Havana alongside the head of Cuban state telecommunications company Etecsa, Mayra Arevich. Under the deal, Cuba will gain access to a network called Google Global Cache, which stores content […]
(Eagle News)– Chairman of the ethics committee and Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III assured on Monday (December 12) an impartial probe on the ethics complaint filed by House leaders against Senator Leila De Lima. “I’ve said that before, I will say it again. I will always be impartial. If you cannot be impartial, and chair [the] ethics [panel], better resign,” Sotto told reporters in an interview. Sotto, along with ethics panel vice-chairman Senator Panfilo […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s industrial output and retail sales growth both accelerated in November, government data showed Tuesday, in a sign of stabilisation for the world’s second-largest economy. Industrial output rose 6.2 percent in the month, ahead of both October’s figures and economists’ predictions of 6.1 percent in a Bloomberg News survey. Retail sales rose 10.8 percent on-year in nominal terms, up from 10.0 percent in October, while fixed-asset investment, a gauge of infrastructure spending, […]
by Delphine THOUVENOT Agence France-Presse GULF OF THAILAND, Thailand (AFP) — Piercing the water’s surface with its almond-shaped mouth, a giant Bryde’s whale opens wide for one, two, three seconds, gulping in anchovies as a boatload of awed tourist look on in the Gulf of Thailand. It’s a rare glimpse of marine life in its natural habitat, in a kingdom overrun with mass tourist attractions such as aquariums and dolphin shows. Once a dream for scuba […]
by Maria Panina with Ursula Hyzyin Tokyo Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to Japan Thursday to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the latest bid to reach an elusive deal on a territorial dispute that has prevented their nations signing a formal treaty to end World War II. Abe will host Putin at the hot springs in his ancestral city of Nagato in the hope of breaking the […]
TARLAC CITY – President Rodrigo Duterte visited soldiers at Camp Servillano Aquino on Dec. 11, Sunday in a display of continuing support to the military. He also announced he is giving his presents for them this Yuletide season. In a speech before the soldiers, he said they have a president who gives all-out support to the military, adding that he believes in a strong police and military. Filipinos are grateful with their armed forces and […]
TABANGO, Leyte (Eagle News) – Sa pangunguna nina Tabango Mayor Bernard “Benjo” Remandaban at Leyte 3rd District Board member Hon. Maria Corazon Remandaban ay matagumpay na naisagawa ang “Run Against illegal Drugs (RAID)”. Isinagawa ito sa bayan ng Tabango, Leyte noong Linggo, December 11, 2016. Ayon kay PSI Darwin Dalde, Chief of Police ng Tabango, humigit kumulang sa 1,000 ang lumuhok sa 5 kms at 10 kms run. Unang lumahok aniya sa nasabing aktibidad ang mga […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Global progress on controlling malaria risks stalling due to an “urgent need” for more funding, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report Tuesday. Overall, the number of new cases fell by 21 percent between 2010 and 2015, and mortality rates fell by 29 percent — 31 percent in the African region. But globally there were still 212 million new cases and 429,000 deaths last year, and 43 […]
Mariing itinanggi ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na mga pulis at militar ang nasa likod ng umano’y extra judicial killings sa libo- libong katao na napapaslang mula nang maupo ito sa pwesto noong buwan ng Hulyo. Sa kanyang talumpati sa isang pagtitipon sa Tarlac, mariing itinanggi ng pangulo ang mga aksusayong ipinupukol dito. Sa tala ng Philippine National Police, dalawang libo at apat- katao na ang napapaslang ng mga pulis sa gitna ng operasyon kontra droga […]
TAYUG, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Nakatapos na ang 60 estudyante ng Agno Elementary School sa kanilang Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Program sa Brgy. Agno Tayug, Pangasinan. Tumanggap ng sertipiko ang mga Grade 5 at Grade 6 na mag-aaral ng nasabing paaralan bilang katunayan ng kanilang pagtatapos. Ang DARE ay programa sa ilalim ng Philippine National Police (PNP). Nagsimula ito noong October 5 at natapos noong December 9. Layunin ng DARE Program na maipaalam sa mga […]
TAYUG, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Nagsagawa ng Lingap-Pamamahyag ang mga miyembro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa Tayug, Pangasinan noong Biyernes (Diyembre 9) ng gabi. Nagsimula ang programa sa pamamagitan ng pagtuturo ng mga Salita ng Diyos. Pagkatapos ng pagtuturo ay namahagi naman sila ng goody bags na may lamang bigas, noodles at delata. Ayon kay Gng. Florinda Nesperos, isa sa naging panauhin na nabigyan ng goody bag, nagpapasalamat siya dahil may ogranisayong pangrelihiyon na tulad ng INC na […]
(Eagle News) — Two deputy commissioners of the Bureau of Immigration officials went on a 30-day leave of absence to give way to the probe of the National Bureau of Investigation on their alleged extortion attempt on Chinese gambling operator Jack Lam. Immigration associate commissioners Al Argosino and Michael B. Robles allegedly tried to extort P50 million from Jack Lam in exchange for the release of 600 of the more than a thousand arrested Chinese […]
