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MANILA, July 15 (PIA) – Voters registration for the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections will start today, July 15 up to July 31, 2016. Comelec said youth voters in the October 31 polls are those that are 15 to 30 years old. Comelec Resolution No. 10148 provides, those who are qualified to register as voters for the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls are Filipino citizens; at least 15 but not more than 30 years old […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Friday demanded Pyongyang swiftly release a North Korean defector it had arrested on charges of attempting to abduct children in the isolated state. In a carefully stage-managed press conference in Pyongyang, Ko Hyon-Chol, 53, who originally fled North Korea in 2013, “confessed” to attempting to kidnap two girl orphans and take them to the South. Seoul’s unification ministry expressed “deep regret” over the North for “illegally arresting” […]
by Catherine Marciano with Fran Blandy in Paris NICE, France (AFP) — A gunman smashed a truck into a crowd of revellers celebrating Bastille Day in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people in what President Francois Hollande on Friday declared a “terrorist” attack. Police shot the driver dead after he barrelled the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a crowd that had been enjoying a fireworks display for France’s national […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China may build mobile nuclear power plants in the South China Sea, state media reported on Friday, days after an international tribunal dismissed Beijing’s vast claims in the strategically vital waters. “Marine nuclear power platform construction will be used to support China’s effective control in the South China Sea,” the website of the state-run Global Times cited the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) as saying on a social media account. The […]
PARIS, France (AFP)–Transforming a vehicle into a simple but deadly weapon of terror — as happened to such bloody effect in Nice on Thursday — is a tactic well known to intelligence agencies. A truck smashed into revellers celebrating France’s Bastille Day, killing at least 80 and injuring scores as its ploughed two kilometres through the crowd. In Israel and the Palestinian territories, car-ramming attacks have featured heavily in a wave of violence that has killed […]
by Ben Dooley ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AFP) — Sympathy and condemnation for the Nice attack dominated the opening of an Asia Europe summit in Mongolia Friday, drawing attention away from Beijing’s rejection of a tribunal ruling dismissing its extensive South China Sea claims. The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), held every two years and which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is supposed to be a venue for increasing cooperation across the Eurasian region and exploring ways to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The commanders of the US and Chinese navies will meet amid mounting tensions over China’s claims to much of the South China Sea, the US Navy said Thursday. Admiral John Richardson, chief of US naval operations, will conduct a three-day visit beginning Sunday, stopping in Beijing and the coastal city of Qingdao, and will meet with his Chinese counterpart Wu Shengli. Beijing was incensed by the ruling of an international […]
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said Thursday (July 14) that he hopes his country can sign a free trade agreement with the European Union by early 2018, after meeting with French President Francois Hollande. “We come away from this visit quite optimistic actually about where the FTA negotiations will go. At the moment commissions are going through the process of speaking to all 28 member states but we hope to start the more formal […]
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Factfile explaining how Pokemon Go is played.
Broadway is set to purr again with the return of the musical “Cats.” The Andrew Lloyd Webber production first opened in 1982 and closed 18 years later after 7,485 performances. Star power will be brought to the show by former UK X-Factor champion, Leona Lewis, who will make her Broadway debut as “Grizabella.” The cast said the revamp will contain the same DNA and storyline as the original, but with small tweaks. “Those who know […]
SAN Juan, Philippines (Eagle News) — Inalok ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte si dating Pangulong Fidel V. Ramos para maging Special Envoy sa China. Ang pahayag ay ginawa ng pangulo sa isang testimonial dinner na ginanap sa Club Filipino sa San Juan. Una rito, nanawagan ang kapatid ni FVR na si Dating Senador at Foreign Relations Committee Chairperson Leticia Ramos-Shahani kay Pangulong Duterte na huwag ibenta ang bansa sa sandaling masimulan na ang negosasyon sa Beijing […]
