(Eagle News) — Pasok ang El Nido sa Palawan sa sampung tinaguriang “Travelers Choice Destination” ng Trip Advisor sa buong mundo. Ang El Nido na tanging Southeast Asian destinationay ika-anim sa nasabing listahan. https://youtu.be/Oerr_jgid7w
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Tourist arrivals, tumaas ng 12 % sa loob ng siyam na buwan
(Eagle News) — Ipinagmalaki ni Department of Tourism (DOT) undersecretary Ronaldo Alan Canizal ang patuloy na pagtaas ng tourist arrival sa bansa. Ayon kay Canizal, pinakamaraming dayuhan na bumisita sa bansa ay mula sa Korea, Amerika, China, Japan At Australia. Umabot na rin sa P178 billion-pesos ang naging income ng bansa mula sa nasabing mga turista mula pa noong Enero hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Target din ng DOT na umabot sa 6 million ang tourist arrival […]
NBA: DeRozan, Lowry spoil Wiggins’ homecoming party
TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — DeMar DeRozan scored 27 points and Kyle Lowry tallied 25 points and 11 assists as the Toronto Raptors rallied to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-110 in Andrew Wiggins’ homecoming game on Thursday night. Wiggins scored 11 of his 25 points in the first quarter but the Timberwolves were no match for the offensive firepower of the Raptors at home. Wiggins, who was the first overall draft pick in 2014, is from […]
Satellite images appear to show Vietnam dredging on disputed reef
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam has started dredging work on a reef in the South China Sea, fresh satellite images appear to show, a move that could provoke Beijing which claims most of the disputed waterway. An image of the small Ladd Reef in the Spratly Islands, where Vietnam has a lighthouse, shows several vessels in a carved out embankment on the reef’s edge. Sediment can be seen leaking out into the ocean, according to […]
Second IED, a more “destructive” bomb, found in Bulacan – PNP Chief
(Eagle News) — The fourth suspect in the foiled bombing near the United States Embassy in Manila on November 28 is now in the custody of the Philippine National Police (PNP) as another improvised explosive device (IED) was found in Bulacan on Wednesday, December 8. In a press briefing, PNP Chief Director General Roland “Bato” Dela Rosa presented the IED, an artillery that could have killed as many as 300 people in a radius of […]
Japan switches on nuclear reactor after safety shutdown
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has restarted one of its few operating nuclear reactors after a two-month safety checkup, despite still-heated debate over atomic power following the Fukushima disaster. The unit was shut down in October for inspections and maintenance under stricter rules brought in after a quake-sparked tsunami swamped the Fukushima plant in 2011, sending some reactors into meltdown and causing the worst nuclear disaster in a generation. Utility Kyushu Electric said it switched […]
Indonesian President Joko Widodo visits quake zone
ACEH PROVINCE, Indonesia (Reuters) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited injured residents in the quake area of Aceh province on Friday (December 9). Widodo met over 130 patients treated in Chik Ditiro Hospital in Pidie Jaya regency, reported Kompas TV. Wednesday’s (December 7) 6.5 magnitude quake has killed 102 people and injured over 700. Hundreds of buildings crumbled to the ground and thousands left homeless. The province of Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra […]
Cuba and Russia sign agreements in transport, technology and energy
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — Cuba and Russia signed new agreements in areas such as transport, technology and energy on Thursday (December 8) after the conclusion of the fourteenth meeting of its Intergovernmental Commission in Havana. The meeting was led by Russian Vice-President Dmitri Rogozin and Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuba’s Vice President of the Council of Ministers, who co-chairs the bilateral commission for economic-trade and scientific-technical cooperation. In total, Moscow and Havana signed seven legal instruments […]
Pangulong Duterte, hinamon ang ICC na imbestigahan din ang inilalabas niyang Narco-list
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Muling binigyang-diin ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang kampanya ng pamahalaan kontra korapsyon at droga sa bansa. Dahil sa pinaigting na kampanya hirap umano ang pangulo para isa- isahin ang mga ito. Hinamon din nito ang International Criminal Court (ICC) para ito ay imbestigahan.
Duterte pledges at UNCAC: No corruption
MANILA, Philippines (PIA)– President Rodrigo Duterte renewed his commitment Wednesday to eliminate corruption in government and put an end to decades long abuses in the bureaucracy. Filipinos are fed up with corruption and this is the reason why he was elected president due to his strong stance against it as well as illegal drugs and criminality. “I will give you a respite of this so many generations of corruption in this country. We are like […]
Indonesia enters third day of search after quake hits
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) — Search resumed in Indonesia’s quake zone for the third day on Friday (December 9) after more than 100 people were killed and thousands left homeless. The quake toppled hundreds of buildings in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, which has declared a two-week state of emergency. Rescuers in Aceh’s Pidie Jaya regency focused their search on a market complex, which suffered more damage than other parts of the […]
De Lima, inakusahan ang Pangulong Duterte na pasimuno ng extra judicial killings
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Inakusahan ni Senadora Leila De Lima na umano’y murderer at pasimuno ng extra judicial killings si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Kasunod ito ng pagdepensa ng Pangulo sa mga pulis na nanguna sa jail raid na ikinasawi ni Albuera Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa. Hindi naman kumbinsido si De Lima sa report ng Committee on Justice and Human Rights (CHR) kung saan inabsuwelto ang Pangulo sa anumang pananagutan sa mga kaso ng pagpatay.
