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Miyembro ng INC sa Iloilo nakipagkaisa sa Maligay Summer Blast

Masiglang dinaluhan ng mga miyembro Iglesia ni Cristo sa hilagang bahagi ng lalawigan ng Iloilo  kasama ang mga nasa proseso pa lamang sa pag-anib sa INC ang isinagawang “Maligaya Summer Blast” kaugnay sa Proyekto ng Pamamahala ng Iglesia Ni Cristo na si Kapatid na  Eduardo V. Manalo na “Reconnect”. Isinagawa ito sa anim na venue na kung saan ay  buong siglang  nakilahok  at  nakipagkaisa sa naturang aktibidad ang mga dumalo. Nagkaroon din ng iba’t-ibang mga […]

ASEAN monitors effectiveness of competition policy and law enforcement

BANGKOK,  Thailand — A Brainstorming Session to Monitor the Effectiveness of Competition Regimes in ASEAN was held on 25-26 May in Bangkok, Thailand. The session is part of the initiative to develop an Assessment Toolkit on Competition Enforcement and Advocacy tailored to the ASEAN context under the ASEAN Competition Action Plan 2016-2025. ASEAN recognizes the benefit presented from periodically assessing their competition regimes to, among others, support the steering and management of competition agencies, review the investigation […]

Malacañang reacts to China’s comment on South China Sea issue

MANILA, Philippines — The Palace responded to China’s statement saying the international arbitral tribunal hearing the case filed by the country is “bias in favor of the Philippines.” “In expressing concern over the South China Sea issue, the Group of Seven or G7 Declaration affirmed the importance of upholding the rule of law,” Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a statement over dzRB Radyo ng Bayan. He said Adherence to the rule of law as […]

Big airline LATAM suspends flights to Venezuela

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Latin America’s biggest airline LATAM said Monday it will suspend its flights to crisis-hit Venezuela for an indefinite period, following a similar move by German carrier Lufthansa. Chile-based LATAM Airlines group and its Peruvian and Brazilian subsidiaries decided to cut the flights “due to the complex macroeconomic situation that the region is currently going through,” it said in a statement. It said challenging economic conditions in Latin America were prompting changes […]

Pau Gasol could skip Rio over Zika fears

MADRID,Spain (AFP) — Spanish basketball star Pau Gasol said Monday he is considering skipping the Olympic Games in Brazil in August due to fears over the Zika virus. “I’m considering it, like anyone. I think it is a sufficiently important issue that it should be considered,” the Chicago Bulls player told reporters at an event for one of his sponsors in Madrid. “I hope that national Olympic committees and international health organisations provide real information […]

Rio police hunt gang rape suspects

by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Rio police arrested two men Monday and hunted four others in the alleged gang rape of an unconscious teenage girl that came to light in an online video that shocked Brazil. Globo television showed footage of heavily armed police in black uniforms outside a house in a favela in the west of Rio de Janeiro, which will host the Olympics in August. They were searching for […]

US zoo defends killing gorilla that grabbed boy

by Thomas WATKINS WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The director of an Ohio zoo on Monday defended the killing of a critically endangered gorilla as it dragged a young boy who had fallen into its enclosure in a horrifying incident captured on video. Harambe, a 17-year-old male western lowland silverback gorilla, was shot after the four-year-old crawled through a barrier and tumbled 15 feet (4.5 meters) into the Cincinnati Zoo enclosure on Saturday. Video footage […]

Absalon and Neff secure wins in Cross Country event at La Bresse

Double Olympic Champion Julien Absalon of France clinched victory in the men’s mountain bike cross country race in La Bresse on Sunday (May 29), the third event of the World Cup series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Hmh-u6r7c The 35-year-old Absalon, who won Olympic golds in 2004 and in 2008, secured his 31st World Cup win in front of his home crowd. His compatriots Maxime Marotte and Victor Koretzky finished second and third respectively to complete a clean sweep of […]

Warriors vs Thunder Do or Die Game 7

The Golden State Warriors became the 31st team in NBA history to come back from a 3-1 deficit, the Warriors will hoist the Thunder in a Do or Die Game 7 (Monday night).  The winner of the game will advance to play the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. The Warriors avoided elimination, using a fourth quarter comeback to tie series 108-101 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6.  The splash brothers unleash their fire […]

Pharma sector set for wave of mergers, acquisitions: study

FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — The pharmaceuticals sector is facing an intensive period of mergers and acquisitions in the coming years, even if US firms Pfizer and Allergan recently failed to tie the knot, the corporate consultancy firm EY said Monday. “We’re going to see a high level of investments and divestments in the pharmaceuticals sector in the coming years,” said Gerd Stuerz, analyst at EY. In April, Pfizer and Allergan called off a  $160-billion (144-billion-euro) tie-up […]

‘Ang Sabah ay mananatiling nasa Malaysia’- Aman

(Eagle News) — Hindi kinikilala ng Sabah ang pag-angkin ng Pilipinas sa kanilang estado at iginiit na sila ay nasa ilalim ng pamamahala ng Malaysia. Ayon kay Chief Minister Musa Aman, sila ay nasa Malaysia at pinili nilang patuloy na maging bahagi ng soberanya nito mula pa nang ito ay mabuo. Ito ang naging tugon ni Musa, sa pahayag ni President-elect Rodrigo Duterte kung saan sinabi niya ang kaniyang balak na ipagpatuloy ang pagbawi sa […]

Informant reveals massive fraud during May 9 elections; shaving of Marcos votes revealed

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – An informant revealed massive cheating during the May 9 elections. He alleged that a special war room was set-up in the Southern Tagalog region where nine vote-counting machines (VCM) were set-up by the personnel of Smartmatic. According to the informant, most of the votes went to the aforementioned machines before being sent to official vote-counting machines. (Eagle News Service description by Jaypaul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded […]