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‘Now or never’ to save Barrier Reef: scientists

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef could be beyond saving in five years without “now or never” funding to improve water quality as climate change ravages the World Heritage-listed site, scientists warned Thursday. The world’s biggest coral reef ecosystem is under pressure from not only climate change, but farming run-off, development and the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish. The biodiverse side off the Queensland state coast is also suffering its worst bleaching in recorded history […]

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Taiwan swears in Tsai Ing-wen as first female president

TAIPEI , Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan swore in Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president Friday as relations with rival China rapidly cool. Beijing-sceptic Tsai took the oath of office at the presidential palace in Taipei after winning a landslide victory in January signalling the end of an eight-year rapprochement with China. Public support for outgoing president Ma Ying-jeou plunged as voters felt he moved too close to Beijing, which still sees the island as […]

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CHED: listahan ng mga kolehiyo at unibersidad na magtataas ng matrikula, ilalabas

(Eagle News) — Tiniyak ng Commission on Higher Education(CHED) na kanilang ilalabas ang listahan ng mga unibersidad at kolehiyo na magtaas ng matrikula para sa school year 2016 hanggang 2017. Sinabi ni CHED Chairperson Director Patricia Licuanan, ito ay para malaman ng publiko kung alin-aling paaralan ang may “tuition hike”. Dagdag pa ni Licuanan, kailangan lamang tiyakin na ang mga papayagang magtaas ng matrikula ay magtataas din ng sahod ng kanilang mga tauhan at magsasaayos […]

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Mega-tsunamis sculpted Mars surface: study

by Marlowe HOOD PARIS , France (AFP) — Monster tsunamis caused by meteor impacts swept across the northern plains of Mars more than three billion years ago, radically re-sculpting the edges of the Red Planet’s ancient seas, according to a study published Thursday. The findings, based on geological mapping, could provide new clues in the search for life. They also bolster the theory that massive floods 3.4 billion years ago transformed Mars’ northern lowlands into […]

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DILG lauds PNP for Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) 2016

MANILA, May 19 — Secretary Mel Senen S. Sarmiento of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) commended the Philippine National Police (PNP) for a relatively and generally peaceful national and local election last May 9, 2016. “Compared to past polls, the 2016 elections are orderly and credible. We thank the PNP National Task Force SAFE (Secure And Fair Elections) 2016 for making this happen,” said Sarmiento. He said that police security personnel, […]

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Cash for Work na Programa ng CSWDO pinakinabangan ng mga residente ng iba’t-ibang brgy sa Capiz

PATULOY na pinakinabangan ng mga residente ng iba’t-ibang barangay sa lalawigan ng Capiz ang Programa ng City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) na tinawag na “Cash for Work”. Noong nakaraang Marso ay nakinabang ang 216 na pamilya sa programang ito. Nilalayon ng programang ito na matulungan ang  mga residente na magkaroon ng karagdagang kita sa pamamagitan ng pagseserbisyo tulad ng pag re-restore ng Mangrove Forest sa kani-kanilang Barangay, paglilinis ng kapaligiran (gaya ng ng baradong irrigation […]

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Boxing: Pacquiao says he supports Philippine death penalty plan

MANILA , Philippines (AFP) — Philippine boxing hero turned senator Manny Pacquiao said Thursday he supports a plan by the newly elected president to impose the death penalty, a proposal that has been met with strong opposition in the Catholic nation. Speaking after he was sworn into office, the high school dropout and devout evangelical Christian said he supported capital punishment because it was sanctioned by his faith. “I’m in favour of the death penalty. […]

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Pagsasampa ng kaso vs VP Binay, tuloy – Ombudsman

(Eagle News) — Posibleng isampa ng Office of the Ombudsman sa Sandiganbayan ang kaso laban kay Vice President Jejomar Binay pagbaba nito sa puwesto sa June 30. Ayon kay Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, may nakita na silang sapat na batayan para kasuhan si Binay ng malversation, falsification at paglabag sa Anti-graft and Corrupt practices Act kaugnay ng kontrobersyal na di umano’y “overpriced” na Makati Carpark Building. Sinabi ni Morales na nananatiling nakabinbin sa kanilang tanggapan […]

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Clinton declares Trump a ‘threat’ to US democracy

by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton on Thursday blasted her likely general election rival Donald Trump as a threat to US democracy and declared him unqualified to be president, unleashing some of her toughest criticism yet of the Republican presumptive nominee. “The threat that Donald Trump poses is so dramatic to our country, to our democracy and our economy,” the former secretary of state told CNN in an interview. “I […]

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Air-sea search intensifies for missing EgyptAir plan

by Samer al-Atrush with John Hadoulis in Athens CAIRO , Egypt (AFP) — A massive search was under way Thursday for the wreckage of an EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board, in what the Egyptian authorities said may have been an act of terrorism. Egypt’s aviation minister said that while it was too soon to say why the Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo had vanished from radar […]

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Senate probe sa $81-million money laundering scam, tinapos na

(Eagle News) — Tinapos na ng Senado ang imbestigasyon nito sa nangyaring pagnanakaw sa Central Bank ng Bangladesh na nagkakahalaga ng 81 million dollars. Ayon kay Senador Teofisto Guingona, Chairman ng Senate Blue Ribbon Committee sisimulan na nila ang pagbalangkas ng report sa susunod na linggo para maging batayan sa pabalangkas ng mga panukalang batas.

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Reklamong plunder at graft vs Duterte, patuloy na iimbestigahan ng Ombudsman

(Eagle News) — Itutuloy ng Office of the Ombudsman ang gagawing imbestigasyon kay incoming President  Rodrigo Duterte kaugnay sa inihaing patong-patong na reklamo ni Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV . Ayon kay Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, bahagi ng kanilang trabaho na imbestigahan ang sinumang opisyal ng pamahalaan na nahaharap sa administrative o criminal complaint. Dahil dito, ipagpapatuloy nila ang pag-imbestiga sa reklamong plunder,graft at malversation na kinakaharap ni Duterte. Dagdag pa ni Morales, kung magpositibo raw sa […]

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