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(Eagle News) — Here’s another win for the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s film entry, “Walang Take Two.” This time, it won the grand prize in the online-based “Fanboy Film Festival,” getting a total of 9,500 votes as the best feature film. It was also the only film nominee that came from the Philippines. The other competing independent films came from the US, Europe and Asia. The film that got the second highest number of votes […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — A four-year-old Filipino-British boy – Ethan Richmond Llanes – met President Rodrigo R. Duterte at the Malacañang Palace. Ethan has become an internet sensation after posting a series of videos expressing his support for the president as early as the campaign season for the may elections on his Facebook page. Ethan even did a ‘Duterte pose’ while the president was watching him as he sat on the chair.
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) will open 109 branches every Saturday of September 2016 for the application of the loan restructuring program or LRP as part of its 59th anniversary celebration. These branches will be open from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
VIENTIANE, Laos (Eagle News) — Department of Social Welfare and Development or DSWD secretary Judy Taguiwalo on Wednesday spoke at the 16th ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) council meeting in Vientiane, Laos. Taguiwalo delivered the Philippine country statement and shared the Philippine government’s views and stands on the actions and programs of the ASEAN’s Socio-Cultural Community. Taguiwalo said that the Philippine government welcomed its upcoming Chairpersonship of the Asean Socio-Cultural Community, especially in the helm […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The low pressure area monitored by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has developed into a full-blown storm and was given the designation “Enteng”. The PAGASA forecast said that the center of the storm is in Batanes and is expected to bring moderate to occasionally heavy rains over Pangasinan, La Union and Benguet which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. https://youtu.be/xuP4vVH8f4M
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on Thursday, September 1 placed the Luzon Grid under yellow alert due to insufficient ancillary services (AS) capacity. According to the NGCP, the available grid capacity is now at 9, 508 megawatts with a peak demand of 8, 911 megawatts. https://youtu.be/EtlAa6wVWIU
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — A Japanese foreign ministry official said that japan and the Philippines have begun talks for the transfer of two large coast guard ships to Manila, to help patrol the disputed South China Sea, as part of a deal on defense equipment. The two brand-new 90-meter multi-role response vessels will be in addition to ten 44-meter mid-sized coast guard ships, worth 8.8 billion pesos, that Japan is set to start delivering […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Taxi Operators Association will petition the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to return the taxi flag-down rate to PHP 40.00 due to the oil price hike. The current flag down rate is P30. The group is also asking for a PHP 5.00 increase for the additional rate every 2 minutes waiting time. https://youtu.be/C4JZt1BlBDY
(Eagle News)– Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Thursday revealed that there are illegitimate police operations done by suspected narco-cops. “We’d just like to refer to the fact that drug killings are not state-sanctioned and we also have to clearly and carefully make reference to the fact that certain deaths involving policemen may actually be cleansing operations by scalawags in uniform,” Abella told reporters in a press briefing in the Palace. Abella also noted that the […]
(Eagle News)–Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo revealed on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed concern after finding out that American comedian Steve Harvey will once again host the Miss Universe Pageant 2017 which will be held at the Mall of Asia Arena on January 30. “When I told the President about that, negative agad ang sabi niya: ‘Hindi pwede.’ That was what he said. And he said: ‘I’m going to talk to the Miss Universe […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — 17 people were unaccounted for in Japan Thursday after Typhoon Lionrock tore through the north of the country, leaving 11 people dead and some 1,600 cut off in isolated communities, officials said. Ten died in the town of Iwaizumi after it was hit by surging river water and mud, with nine of them perishing in a care home for the elderly. The typhoon, which packed wind gusts of over 160 kilometers […]
(Eagle News)– Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Thursday noted that President Rodrigo Duterte is not affected by the assassination plot against him. “The President is pretty much untouched by these threats. Concerned but not worried,” Abella said. “He eats threats for breakfast. Meaning to say, it is not something new to him. He said it again and again that he puts his honor, his life, his presidency on the line. It is a very heroic […]
