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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is planning to conduct the registration of voters for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections this month. The application for registration will start on July 15 and will end by the end of the month. According to the COMELEC, the filing of opposition to the application for registration will start on August 1 to 15.
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Tiniyak ng Philippine National Police o PNP na agad nilang aaksyunan ang mga lehitimong reklamong ipinararating sa kanila. Ito ang inihayag ni Senior Supt. Dionardo Carlos, tagapagsalita ng PNP kasunod ng ikakasang hotline ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte para sa iba’t-ibang sumbong ng publiko Ayon kay Carlos, mayroon din silang ikakasang sariling hotline sa PNP upang makatulong sa mabilis na pag-aksyon sa mga ipinararating sa kanilang impormasyon o sumbong. Kasalukuyang ginagamit […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pumanaw na ang forward player ng Blackwater elite na si Gilbert Bulawan matapos itong matumba habang nag-eensayo. Kinumpirma ni Team Owner Dioceldo Sy na bigla na lamang nag-collapse ang 6 foot 5 player mula sa Legazpi Albay sa kalagitnaan ng ensayo. Napayakap pa ito sa kaniyang team mate na si Reil Cervantes bago tuluyang nahiga sa sahig. Agad na tinakbo sa pagamutan pero naideklara ito na ‘dead on arrival’ dahil […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will create a task force that will address journalist killings. According to Communications Operations Secretary Martin Andanar, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and his legal team are drafting an administrative order (AO). The announcement was made after Saturnino Estanio Jr., a broadcaster in Surigao City survived in an ambush. This is the first media violence that occurred under the Duterte administration.
by Tim COLLINGS SPIELBERG,Austria (AFP)–Lewis Hamilton emerged from a last-lap battering by his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg and misguided post-race boos from disgruntled fans with a dramatic victory in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix. The 46th win of Hamilton’s career ended Rosberg’s dream of a hat-trick of triumphs in the Styrian Alps and cut his advantage in the title race to 11 points, just a week before defending champion Hamilton’s home British Grand Prix. The feuding […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — A typhoon with an international name of Nepartak is expected to landfall in the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Tuesday, July 5, the country’s weather bureau said. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services and Administration (PAGASA), the center of the tropical storm was moving at 2,060 kilometers east of Mindanao with maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour (kph). It is forecast to move […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — To discourage people from buying more private cars which worsen traffic congestion, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) said that it will consider lifting the number coding scheme. LTFRB Chairman Atty. Martin Delgra III told reporters in a press conference that quote: “There should be more people on the road than cars. Once we remove colorum vehicles, we will consider lifting number coding in public […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Supreme Court (SC) justices are set to discuss the election protest filed by former Senator “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., against Vice President Leonor “Leny” Robredo. The election protest of Marcos will be included in the agenda of the Supreme Court (SC) en banc on Tuesday. The SC justices are expected to discuss and deliberate the case of Marcos as to its initial action to the said case. The SC will […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — A senior Hong Kong delegation will head to Beijing for talks following explosive revelations by a bookseller who said he was detained for eight months on the mainland, the city’s leader said Monday. Lam Wing-kee, 61, has said he was seized after crossing the border into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, taken away blindfolded and then kept in a cell without access to a lawyer for alleged involvement in […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Radiation levels across the Pacific Ocean are rapidly returning to normal five years after a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant spewed gases and liquids into the sea, a study showed Monday. Japan shut down dozens of reactors after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake-generated tsunami on March 11, 2011 triggered one of the largest ever dumps of nuclear material into the world’s oceans. In the days following the quake and explosions at […]
by Ian Timberlake RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up near the United States consulate in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea city of Jeddah in the early hours of Monday, the interior ministry said. Security officers became suspicious of a man near the parking lot of Dr Suleiman Faqeeh Hospital, which is directly across from the US diplomatic mission. When they moved in to investigate “he blew himself up with a suicide […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Argentina guard Manu Ginobili said Sunday he will return to the NBA for a 15th campaign next season after considering retirement. Ginobili is expected to play for Argentina next month in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and to return to the San Antonio Spurs, the club for which he has played his entire NBA career. But Ginobili, who turns 39 on July 28, did not say what club he […]
