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QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Senate has no plans to re-open its investigation on extra-judicial killings even if other witnesses reveal themselves during the investigation of the representatives from the United Nations. According to Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights Chairman Senator Richard Gordon, the investigation proved that the government is not behind the killings but drug lords and drug syndicates to ensure that no one will testify against them.
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Masayang sinalubong ng Dabawenyo ang mga kandidata ng Miss Earth Philippines noong Huwebes, October 14 sa Davao. Dumating ang 120 candidates ng Miss Earth Philippines Pageant at mananatili sa Davao sa loob ng isang linggo. Ayon kay Gene Rose Tecson, chief of the City Tourism Operations Office, isa umano itong oportunidad para sa kanila na makita ang mga bagay na ipinagmamalaki ng Davao. Ang nasabing tourism event umano ay karagdagang income generation at […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — At least 10 people were killed and seven others seriously injured after their tour bus crashed and caught fire on a highway near South Korea’s southeastern city of Ulsan, police said Friday. Although the precise cause of the accident is still under investigation, the driver of the bus was taken into custody for questioning about the vehicle’s maintenance record. The bus was carrying 20 people late Thursday night when one […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The end of China’s one-child-per-couple limit last year will not provide the population boost sought by Chinese leaders in the near term, according to a study released Friday. Any potential benefits the new “two-child” rule might have for the nation’s shrinking workforce and rapidly ageing population will not be felt for at least two decades, the study concluded. China is faced with deep demographic challenges thanks to the strict — and […]
PASIG CITY, Oct. 14 — Members of the Bundestag, Germany’s Lower House of Parliament, paid the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) a courtesy call expressing their strong support to the peace and development initiatives being undertaken by the administration of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. “We wish you all the success, because it could be a very good time, not just for the Philippines, but for the reason to sit together; […]
by Martin PARRY SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s permanent sub-Antarctic research base at World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has won a reprieve from closure and will instead get a multi-million dollar revamp, the government said Friday, in a boost for science. The Australian Antarctic Division announced in September the station on the island — which lies in the Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica — would shut after almost seven decades due to environmental contamination concerns and […]
(AFP) — One in four mammals, one in eight birds, 40% of all amphibians and nearly one in three conifer trees; all are at risk of dying out. Some 20,000 of the world’s plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction out of 73,600 monitored — 1.8 million have been listed in total. Some 800 are already described as extinct while 69 species are only able to survive in captivity. Within the world’s mammal […]
Thailand’s people woke up on Friday to the first day in 70 years without King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a king worshipped as a father-figure who guided the nation through decades of change and turmoil. The king, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, died in a Bangkok hospital on Thursday (October 13). He was 88. People wearing black were seen gathering near the Grand Palace, where streams of locals have been arriving to pay their respects to the beloved […]
PASIG CITY, Oct. 14 – To increase the awareness of more than 25 million learners in the country about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives, the Department of Education (DepEd) and its partners lead all schools nationwide in celebrating the 2016 Global Handwashing Day (GHD) on October 15, 2016. Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones acknowledged the power of children to influence others when it comes […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Melania Trump threatened People Magazine and a former staff reporter with legal action late Thursday over “false and completely fictionalized” statements in the writer’s account of Donald Trump forcing himself on her during a 2005 interview. The Republican presidential candidate’s wife denied that she encountered or conversed with writer Natasha Stoynoff in New York, tweeting a letter from her lawyer demanding a “prominent retraction and apology” of certain statements in […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Itinalaga bilang bagong administrator ng Overseas Workers Welfare Administration o OWWA si dating Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Chief Hans Leo Cacdac. Pinalitan ni Cacdac si Rebecca Calzado. Si cacdac ang pinakabatang naging administrator ng OWWA. Naging bahagi rin siya sa repatriation team ng owwa para sa mga Overseas Filipino Worker (OFWs) na naapektuhan ng krisis sa Saudi Arabia. Sinuguro naman ni Cacdac na laging handa ang OWWA na magbigay […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Naki-isa ang Eagle Broadcasting Corporation sa malaking gawain para sa propagasyon ng Iglesia Ni Cristo. Nag-anyaya ng mga panauhin ang mga kawani ng EBC kaugnay ng isinagawang Lingap-Pamamahayag sa Templo, Central na pinangasiwaan ng kapatid na Glicerio Santos, Jr, Ministro ng Ebanghelyo. Bahagi ito ng pakiki-isa ng EBC sa puspusang gawaing Pagpapalaganap upang ipakilala ang Iglesia Ni Cristo sa mga kababayan. Una na ring nakibahagi ang mga boluntaryong kawani […]
