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QUEZON City, Philippines – Incoming Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol laid down plans in order to achieve food security for the whole Philippines by using new and effective technology as well as facilitating loans for farmers and for the development of efficient methods for selling farm goods. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Editing by DYC Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) — Orange County deputies continued the search for the two-year-old boy, who was dragged by an alligator into the water near the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa on Tuesday (June 14), officials said during a news conference. The child was playing in the water on a beach when the alligator attacked, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said. He described the alligator as between four and seven feet (1.21 meters – 2.13 […]
China’s Foreign Ministry called for a long-term solution on the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea. China also added that such a solution can be achieved through a dialogue between the disputing countries. This in the wake of the Philippines’ step in filing a case in the United Nations Arbitral Tribunal as well as the other countries taking their own steps in order to remove Chinese presence in their claimed territories. (Eagle News Service […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte and incoming Vice President Leni Robredo will have separate inauguration ceremonies. According to Robredo’s transition team, they are preparing for a joint inauguration ceremony when they were informed by Duterte’s team that the President-elect is planning to conduct a separate inauguration ceremony. Robredo’s team added that her inauguration will be conducted in Metro Manila and that she will be sworn in by the chairman of the smallest, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – According to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, Eastern Visayas will experience a 13-hour power interruption on Saturday, June 18 due to the transfer of the conductors from the emergency restoration system (ERS) structures to permanent Tower 13. The power outage will start at 5 a.m. and end at 6 p.m. on June 18. The affected areas are those serviced by LEYECO II, SEMELCO I, SEMELCO II and ESAMELCO. https://youtu.be/3fg6KDsIsGk
by Marco SIBAJA SIQUIRRES, Costa Rica (AFP) — A giant cement structure rises from the river in the middle of Costa Rica’s Caribbean tropical forest, and its turbines spin, each rotation putting the Central American country closer to its goal of relying only on renewable energy. The $1.4-billion Reventazon Hydroelectric Project is the second-biggest infrastructure work in Central America after the just-finished expansion of the Panama Canal, and following six years of construction, it’s nearly […]
WASHINGTON, united States (AFP) — May’s temperatures broke global records yet again, as the northern hemisphere finishes its hottest spring on record, statistics released Tuesday by NASA showed. The Arctic in particular experienced abnormal heat, causing Arctic sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet to start melting unusually early, said NASA. Alaska recorded its warmest spring on record by a wide margin, and in Finland the average May temperature was between three and five degrees […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP) — A third of Latin Americans who have risen out of poverty over the past 15 years could fall back into it due to the region’s recession, a UN report showed Tuesday. “We estimate there is a population of between 25 and 30 million citizens that today find themselves vulnerable to falling into poverty,” said George Gray, the main author of the report and the chief economist for the UN Development […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Climate change appears to have driven to extinction an Australian Great Barrier Reef rodent, according to a new study, which suggests the species may be the first mammal lost to the global phenomenon. Extensive searches for the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rat-like animal, have failed to find a single specimen from its only known habitat on a sandy island in far northern Australia. Researchers said the key factor behind the […]
by MJ Racadio Quezon City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Church of Christ (Iglesia ni Cristo) held another grand evangelical mission and outreach mission at the Philippine Arena, the world’s largest mixed use indoor theater, on June 12, 2016 during the country’s celebration of Philippine Independence Day. Right after the event, around 12 noon, the entertainment portion was grand from the top artists in the country including Cannes Best Actress 2016 Ms. Jaclyn Jose, Divine […]
by Juliette COLLEN PARIS , France (AFP) — Forty people were hurt and dozens arrested Tuesday as violence between riot police and masked troublemakers gripped huge Paris protests over France’s labour reforms. Police fired water cannon in the south of the capital to quell rioters as “several hundred” masked protesters lobbed objects at security forces in bloody scenes in the French capital. As tens of thousands of people took to the streets in nationwide protests […]
(REUTERS) After Larossi Abballa killed a French police commander and the commander’s partner on Tuesday, he took to Facebook Live to encourage viewers in a 12-minute video to follow his example: Kill prison staff, police officials, journalists, lawmakers. The incident underscores the immense challenges companies such as Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Google’s YouTube face as they push live video streaming to hundreds of millions of people. Facebook in recent months has made its […]
