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QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Commission on Elections said that the ballots which they printed from August 21 to August 26 will not go to waste in case the 2016 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections will be postponed. “The 411,000 ballots already printed will not go to waste. They are in fact preserved because they can be used for future elections,” Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said. The Comelec was able to print 411,000 ballots for Agusan del […]
Hurricane Madeline weakened to a tropical storm on Wednesday (August 31) as it advanced toward Hawaii’s Big Island, where residents were bracing for strong winds and rain even as another storm across the country continued its path to Florida, officials said. Hawaii officials opened shelters and closed offices, schools and roads on Wednesday to prepare for Madeline, which is expected to pass just south of the Big Island. “We went through this last year, at […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Wednesday, August 31 welcomed home more than 100 Filipinos abandoned in desert camps in Saudi Arabia with a warning – don’t do drugs. Duterte’s administration will give job placement priority, either local or abroad, to those repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) coming from Saudi Arabia who were displaced or laid off. Previous reports said thousands of Filipinos are in danger of losing jobs in Saudi […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines may revive a nuclear power plant that was completed 32 years ago but never switched on due to safety fears, the government said Wednesday. The spokesman for new President Rodrigo Duterte said the government is considering brining the $2.3 billion plant into operation to meet the country’s growing power needs, despite entrenched opposition from activists and environmentalists. The 620-megawatt plant, built in Bataan province during the notoriously corrupt regime […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx met with Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday (August 31) as the first scheduled commercial passenger flight from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century landed on the island. The event has opened another chapter in the Obama administration’s efforts to improve ties and increase trade and travel with the former Cold War foe. Foxx and Rodriguez met at the Foreign Ministry in Havana. A […]
MANILA, Philippines — Muling ipinaalala ng Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) na kahapon, Agosto 31 na epektibo pa ang total truck ban sa kahabaan ng Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA). Ito ang ginawang paglilinaw ni MMDA General Manager Thomas Orbos matapos na makatanggap ang kanilang ahensya ng mga reklamo sa social media na may kaugnayan sa suliranin sa trapiko. Sinabi ni Orbos na 24-hours na umiiral ang truck ban, mula Lunes hanggang Linggo mula sa Magallanes Interchange […]
Spain’s acting premier on Wednesday (August 31) lost a parliamentary confidence vote for a second term after he failed to win enough support from the opposition, bringing the country closer to a potential third election in a year. Mariano Rajoy, of the centre-right People’s Party (PP), received 170 votes of support, falling short – as expected – of the minimum 176 needed to form a government. He needed the support of the Socialists, who voted […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – Some 6,000 people in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo are believed to be infected with yellow fever, six times the number of confirmed cases, but no new infections have been confirmed since July 12, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Around 7.7 million people were vaccinated over 10 days in a major campaign in the Congo capital of Kinshasa, Oyewale Tomori, chair of WHO’s Emergency Committee, told a news conference. […]
(REUTERS) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was ready to discuss any issues with Barack Obama when they meet in Laos next week, but added that the U.S. president must listen to him first before bringing up the question of human rights. Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation. Asked if he would […]
Stocks in the red in the final trading session of August. Weakness in oil weighing on stocks, including Exxon and Chevron. They were among the top drags on the S&P 500. For the month the major U.S. indexes were mostly lower with the Nasdaq adding one percent. Two-year U.S. Treasury yields posting their biggest monthly increase since December on growing expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike. “We have the increased likelyhood, it looks like […]
(REUTERS) Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America’s biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis. Senators voted 61-20 to convict the country’s first female president for illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending, marking the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. Rousseff’s opponents hailed the removal of the former leftist guerrilla as paving the way […]
Donald Trump told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday (August 31) that the United States has the right to build a border wall to halt illegal immigration, but the Republican presidential candidate did not bring up his signature demand that Mexico pay for it. In an unexpected trip to a country that he has vilified for causing illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States, Trump held talks with the Mexican leader at […]
