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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese low-cost carrier Peach Aviation said Friday it would buy 13 Airbus aircraft valued at almost $1.4 billion as part of its expansion plans to cash in on a pick-up in demand for air travel in the country. Peach, an affiliate of major Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA), agreed to buy 10 fuel-efficient A320neos and three conventional A320ceos, it said in a statement. The new aircraft are to be used […]
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Naalarma si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa tumataas na bilang ng kasong child abuse sa buong Bansa. Sa pahayag ng Pangulo bago ito umalis patungong Lima, Peru ay kaniyang tiniyak na sa pagbabalik niya ay tututukan ang mga kasong may kinalaman sa pang-aabuso, pananakit at pagpatay sa mga bata at maging sa mga kababaihan. Sinabi rin ng Pangulo na kaniyang kakausapin ang DSWD ukol dito. Ayon pa sa Pangulo, marami sa mga biktima ay menor […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea lashed out Friday at a new South Korea-Japan intelligence-sharing accord, accusing Seoul of a gross act of betrayal with the “sworn enemy” of the Korean people. The deal to share defence intelligence — largely driven by the growing threat of the North’s nuclear and missile programmes — was reached and provisionally signed in Tokyo on Monday. It was a controversial move in South Korea, where the legacy of […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pinagpapaliwanag ng senado ang Department of Finance (DOF) kung bakit walang inilaang pondo para sa relokasyon ng mga informal settler na tatamaan ng connector road mula sa North Luzon patungong South Luzon Expressway. Sa deliberasyon sa panukalang 3.35 trillion-pesos na hinihinging budget ng gobyerno sa 2017, sinabi ni Senate Finance Chairman Loren Legarda na walang komunikasyon ang Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) at National Housing Authority (NHA) hinggil […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday said his meeting with Donald Trump — the first by a foreign leader — convinced him the US president-elect was someone “in whom I can have great confidence”. “We were able to have a very candid talk over a substantial amount of time. We held it in a very warm atmosphere,” Abe told reporters after their meeting at the billionaire’s Manhattan skyscraper in New […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nasa tanggapan na ng pangulo ang Executive Order para sa nationwide firecracker ban. Target itong lagdaan sa susunod na buwan. Layon ng nasabing kautusan na limitahan ang paggamit at bentahan ng paputok sa bansa. https://youtu.be/q-pKJYddKD4
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nakumbinsi ng Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) at Inter Agency Council on Traffic (I-ACT) ang pamunuan ng Armed Forces of the Philippines na buksan ang Kampo Aguinaldo sa mga pribadong motorista para makabawas sa volume ng mga sasakyan sa EDSA. Pero bago makapasok sa Kampo, obligado munang kumuha ng access sticker ang mga motorista para na rin sa seguridad ng Kampo. https://youtu.be/23UAQNqUNUc
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Pumirma sa isang kasunduan si Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte at si Mayor Kenji Kitahashi ng Japanese City of Kitakyushu para sa isang Environmental Agreement. Ang nasabing Strategic Environmental Partnership Agreement ay kanilang pinirmahan sa Conference Hall ng City Hall, Davao kamakailan. Layunin nito na mabuo ng isang proyekto sa Davao na gawin ang lungsod bilang isang modelo para sa “Intercity Cooperation sa Pilipinas”. Ang partnership agreement ay nagpapahintulot na matuto mula […]
DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to follow in Russia’s footsteps Thursday and pull his country out of the International Criminal Court, incensed at foreign criticism of his deadly drug war. Russia formally withdrew its signature to the ICC’s founding Rome Statute on Wednesday, calling the tribunal’s work “one-sided and inefficient”. Speaking in his home town of Davao city in the southern Philippines shortly before flying to Peru for a regional […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat was punched in the face and sprayed with tear gas by masked attackers in an upmarket area of Paris, police said Thursday. The 40-year-old star and her partner were attacked by three masked men who tried to steal her handbag. The couple told police the men had ambushed them in the lobby of the apartment building where they were staying in the chic 16th arrondissement of the […]
SAN VICENTE, Palawan (Eagle news) – Tinanghal ang Munisipyo ng San Vicente bilang 2016 Regional Nutrition Green Banner Awardee sa buong Rehiyon ng MIMAROPA. Ito ay matapos na makapagtala ng 1st Top Low Malnutrition Prevalence Rate (MPR) sa buong isang taon. Nangangahulugan ito na ang San Vicente ang may pinakamababang naitala ng malnutrisyon sa buong lalawigan ayon sa datos ng Provincial Nutrition Action Office (PNAO). Ang naturang pagkilala ay iginawad noong November 8 sa The Heritage […]
by Fiachra GIBBONS PARIS, France (AFP) — The row over the discovery of a “lost” Vincent Van Gogh notebook took a dramatic new turn Thursday, with experts who back the find demanding a public debate with the Van Gogh Museum, which has dismissed it as a fake. In a point-by-point rebuttal of the museum’s damning assessment of the sketchbook — apparently from the artist’s legendary stay in the French city of Arles — the experts […]
