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By Dexter T. Manglicmot Eagle News Service SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Eagle News) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo recently held its Excellence in Visual Media Awards for the first time in the United States at the Samuel Johnson Junior Performing Arts Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. The regional competition for the Excellence in Visual Media or EVM Awards came to a close here in its North America stop as people from all over […]
(REUTERS) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said his country, a longtime U.S. ally, was seeking to build “many news alliances” and could turn to Russia and China for help, including on tackling his country’s drug problem. “By next year, I will have entered into so many new alliances,” he said during a speech after inspecting an illegal amphetamine factory. He also said he would not allow his country’s former colonial power, the United […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on Tuesday announced the cancellation of six international flights in Manila due to Typhoon Helen. The list of cancelled international flight as of Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016 are the following: • China Airlines Flights 702 and 703 (Manila-Taipei-Manila) • Philippine Airlines Flights 428 and 427 (Manila-Narita-Manila) • Philippine Airlines Flights 896 and 897 (Manila-Kansai-Manila)
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, September 26 said that it denied the request of Smartmatic International to refund around P20 million in penalties that were deducted from their receivables in 2013 polls. According to Commissioner Rowena Guanzon, the penalty was due to the company’s failure to deliver the software enhancement for the old Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines. Guanzon also said that they cannot allow the […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday (September 27) revealed his plans for a visit to Russia, aside from the trips planned to China and Japan. “After China, I think I’ll go to Japan and I’ll go to Russia,” Duterte said during a press conference. At a previous speech during the oath taking rites of new officials of the Malacañan Press Corps, Duterte announced he was willing to open up the country to investments from […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) Davao City on Monday, September 26, once again won the Presidential Award for the most child-friendly city. The Presidential award was granted for the fifth time this year after Davao City won the same award in 1998, 1999, 2013 and 2014. President Rodrigo Duterte personally presented the award to the officials of Department of Social Welfare and Development-Davao in Malacañang.
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 27) – The generations born in the 21st century are more likely to be called “millennials”. But did you know that the millenials actually started in 1978? A book that was written by Neil Howe and William Strauss explained that the iconoclast millennial generations were born in between 1977 and 1994. The magazine New York Times, revealed that the word itself and the generation that it describes actually developed t 25-30 years ago. Another term closely […]
(Eagle News)– Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Tuesday (September 27) appealed to Senator De Lima’s former driver and bodyguard Ronnie Dayan to testify against the senator following her alleged involvement in the drug proliferation inside New Bilibid Prison (NBP). “We would like to invite Ronnie Dayan to come out and be open, testify to the Congress. We could put you in the WPP (Witness Protection Program) and the Speaker could offer you immunity like […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 27) – The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is an atomic power plant, finished yet never energized. It is located on the Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometers west of Manila. It is situated on a 3.57 square kilometer government reservation at Napot Point in Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines’ lone endeavor at building an atomic power plant. The Philippine Atomic Project began in 1958 with the founding of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission or PAEC […]
Subic, Zambales (Eagle News) — Mahigit sa 700 panauhin na mula sa Olongapo City at karatig bayan ng Zambales ang nakisaya sa isinagawang outreach concert ng mga kaanib sa Iglesia Ni Cristo Subic Bay Freeport Zone at tinawag nila itong “Edification through Voice & Music o EVM-CFO Choirs Outreach Concert”. Layunin ng ganitong aktibidad na hindi lamang makapagbigay ng saya sa mga kaanib at hindi pa kaanib ng INC kundi upang maipabatid ang Aral ng Diyos sa […]
(Eagle News)- Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa on Tuesday (September 27) presented to members of the media P6 million worth of seized high-powered firearms bought by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). “Isa’s group and some ASG members have been in Manila since August 2016 to buy a cache of guns, explosive components, and ammunition upon orders of unidentified ASG commander,” Dela Rosa told reporters at Camp Crame. “The contraband will […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, calling for dramatic action against pollution that is blamed for more than six million deaths a year. New data in a report from the UN’s global health body “is enough to make all of us extremely concerned,” Maria Neira, the head of the WHO’s department of public health and environment, told reporters. The problem […]
