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CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Following in the footsteps of Daisy Ridley, Felicity Jones is the latest female lead in a new ‘Star Wars’ film – this time, the first of several planned spin-off films ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’. The film has been surrounded in mystery to keep spoilers from the public. The secrecy went back to when Jones got cast – all she knew was she was playing “a rather extraordinary character.” […]
MANILA, Philippines (PIA)- In order to to close the infrastructure gap over the next six years, the Duterte administration needs at least P8 trillion, and it is also the job of the Department of Finance (DOF) to generate enough funds to spell the financial sustainability of this ambitious public investment program. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III told a business forum that an initial list of 18 big-ticket items worth a total of P427.5 billion have already […]
ILIGAN CITY (Eagle News) – Sugatan ang apat katao sa nangyaring pagsabog ng bomba sa harap ng Western Union at gilid ng Freedom Park noong Miyerkules, December 7, bandang 7:00 ng gabi. Ang pinangyarihan ay malapit lamang sa Police Station ng Barangay Poblacion, Iligan City. Ang mga biktima ay agad na isinugod sa Dr. Uy Hospital, Poblacion, Iligan City na nakilalang sina: Laureto Carabantes, Jr. – 26 taong gulang, empleyado sa Art Destura Printing, taga-Purok 5, […]
KALINGA (Eagle News) – Nagbabala ang Kalinga Provincial Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO) sa posibleng pagguho ng lupa o landslide dahil sa tuluy-tuloy na mga pag-ulan. Kasalukuyang minomonitor ang mga bayan na prone sa landslide tulad ng sumusunod: Lubuagan Tinglayan Pasil Pinukpuk Balbalan (Upper Kalinga) Naka-close monitoring din ang DPWH Kalinga sa mga daan lalo na sa Tabuk-Bontoc Road na kadalasang hindi madaanan kapag ganitong may mga pag-ulan dahil sa pagguho ng lupa. Ayon kay PDRRMO […]
MULANAY, Quezon (Eagle News) – Tatlong buwang suspendido bilang Mayor ng Mulanay Quezon si Joselito “Tito” Ojeda matapos mapatunayan sa salang simple misconduct ng Office of the Ombudsman. Ang suspension order ay isinilbi ni Lionel L. Dalope, Provincial Director ng Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Quezon. Nag-ugat ang nasabing suspension matapos mapatunayan na si Ojeda ay nag-hire ng isang Private Lawyer bilang Legal Officer sa kanilang Munisipyo. Ang nabanggit na abogado ay si Attorney […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines –The Commission on Elections is calling on the public to take advantage of the upcoming Yuletide break and participate in the ongoing voter registration for the 23 October 2017 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections which started last 07 November 2016 and will end on 29 April 2017. Applications for registration, transfer, transfer with reactivation, reactivation, change/correction of entries and inclusion/reinstatement of records in the list of voters will be received by the Offices of the Election […]
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) — Bolivian authorities detained on Tuesday (December 6) the chief executive of airline LaMia, the owner of the plane that crashed last week in Colombia and killed nearly all of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team, prosecutors said. Gustavo Vargas, the chief executive, and two other employees of the tiny Bolivia-based charter airline were taken to a prosecutor’s office in Santa Cruz for up to eight hours of questioning before prosecutors decide if […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Johnny Depp and Will Smith topped a list on Wednesday (December 7) of Hollywood’s most overpaid actors, an illustration that star power does not always bring in dollars at the movie box-office. Fan favorite George Clooney also found himself on the annual Forbes list after the limited commercial appeal of films like “Hail Caesar,” “Money Monster” and the 2015 flop “Tomorrowland.” Depp led the list for the second straight year […]
DUMINGAG, Zamboanga del Sur (Eagle News) – Sinunog ng mga hindi pa nakikilalang grupo ang dalawang backhoe na pagmamay-ari ng Bise Alkalde at lokal na Pamahalaan ng Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. Sa ulat ng Zamboanga del Sur Police Provincial Office (ZSPPO), nangyari ang insidente sa bulubunduking kalsada ng Purok 3, Barangay Tamurayan, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. Bago ang pangyayari ay may nakita aniya ang mga residente na limang lalaki na tumambay sa isang maliit na kubo malapit […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Fans of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling turned out on Hollywood Boulevard on Wednesday (December 7) to catch a glimpse of the stars of the likely Oscar-contender “La La Land” as they had imprints of their hands and feet immortalized in cement. “La La Land,” a modern-day musical love story of two struggling artists in Los Angeles, has cemented its Hollywood awards season front-runner status by simultaneously leading the nominees […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, the star of such films as “Spartacus” and “The Vikings,” turns 100 on Friday (December 9) after a long movie career that has stretched across seven decades. Douglas was one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and ’60s and has made more than 90 movies. He also played a major role in breaking the Hollywood blacklist – actors, directors and writers who were shunned […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) – by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber The Kremlin on Wednesday said that Russia had finalised a deal to privatise 19.5 percent of state-owned oil giant Rosneft. Rosneft chief Igor Sechin informed President Vladimir Putin “about the completion of a privatisation deal of 19.5 percent of shares of the largest Russian oil company Rosneft,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He added that its investors were the Glencore Consortium and Qatar’s sovereign fund and that […]
