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QUEZON City, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment is all set for its nationwide job fair to be held on Labor Day, May 1 in 44 locations all over the country. According to the DOLE, 1, 000 companies – 800 local and 200 overseas employees – will provide 200 job openings. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
by Athens Zaw Zaw YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Witnesses to a boat capsize that left some 20 people dead, including children, say the victims were from the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority and blamed the tragedy on travel restrictions that forced them to journey by sea. At least 21 people, including nine children, died after a packed boat capsized in choppy waters on Tuesday as it approached the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe, according to the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Panama has been “wrongly” labelled a tax haven, President Juan Carlos Varela said in an interview with a Japanese news agency, defending his country amid the global “Panama Papers” scandal. Panama is scrambling to avert redesignation as a tax haven that assists money laundering after the disclosure of the offshore dealings of many of the world’s wealthy, famous and infamous. They came to light when millions of documents covering nearly 40 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged Tuesday to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment. In the first such meeting in nearly 20 years, the UN General Assembly adopted a document that marks a shift away from the “war on drugs” launched in the 1970s, with its heavy-handed approach centered on law enforcement and criminalization. […]
by Madeleine COOREY SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering its worst coral bleaching in recorded history with 93 percent of the World Heritage site affected, scientists said Wednesday as they revealed the phenomenon is also hitting the other side of the country. After extensive aerial and underwater surveys, researchers at James Cook University said only seven percent of the site had escaped the whitening triggered by warmer water temperatures. “We’ve never […]
by Fran BLANDY PARIS, France (AFP) –What poses a greater risk to French school children: a potential terror attack, or smoking cigarettes? This is the unusual question gripping France as a result of the jihadist attacks on Paris last November — and a court ruling later this week may point to the answer. Many high schools began letting pupils smoke on school premises as part of security measures introduced after the gun-and-bomb assaults which killed […]
One of Tuscany’s most famous villas is up for sale with its owners hoping to be smiling all the way to the bank thanks to its links to the Mona Lisa. The Villa Antinori was once owned by the family of silk merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, whose wife Lisa Gherardini is widely believed to have sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous portrait. Located in the hills outside Florence, “the villa is priced at over 10 […]
NEW York, United States (AFP) — Shares of Tesla Motors tumbled Tuesday after an article in Consumer Reports recounted a series of glitches with its new Model X electric sport utility vehicle. Tesla shares were down 3.4 percent at $244.27 in midday trade following the report in the widely read consumer magazine. Among the snafus cited: problems with the vehicle’s “falcon wing” doors either not opening or not shutting; difficulties with the car’s self-driving mechanism […]
MULING nag-anunsyo ang National Grid Corporation of the Philippines ng 11 oras na brownout sa 20 mga bayan sa Nueva Ecija. Ang nabanggit na power interruption ay mararanasan sa Abril 21, Huwebes, mula ika-7:00 ng umaga at aabot hanggang ika-6:00 ng gabi. Ayon sa NGCP, ang mga bayan na apektado ay ang: Sta. Rosa, San Leonardo, Palayan City, Gen. Tinio, Penaranda, Laur, Bongabon, Gabaldon, Llanera, Gen. Natividad, Rizal, Talavera, Lupao, Carranglan, Aliaga, Quezon, Licab, Sto. Domingo, […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Oil prices resumed their fall in Asia Wednesday after petroleum workers called off a strike in key OPEC producer Kuwait, quashing hopes the disruption could help ease a persistent supply glut. Curtailed production resulting from the three-day strike in OPEC’s fourth biggest member led prices to rise Tuesday, ending a four-day losing streak. But prices resumed their decline after the Kuwait Oil Workers Union on Wednesday ended their mass action and decided […]
Jewellery-lovers are gathering in Saudi Arabia for an exhibition that brings the most luxurious designs and prestigious brands under one roof. The four-day “Jewellery Salon” kicked off on Monday (April 18) in Riyadh, where more than 60 exhibitors from 13 countries are showcasing their latest designs to Saudi customers, especially Saudi women. Saudi Arabia is the world‘s fifth largest gold and jewellery market, and Saudi women are the biggest spenders on jewellery in the world, […]
MANILA, April 20 – Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said that the Department is setting up one-stop-shops at the Labor Day Job and Career Fairs venues nationwide to provide the documentation and other pre-employment needs of jobseekers. “The DOLE is setting up one-stop shops for job seekers so they can easily access our free employment facilitation services. These employment facilitation services, such as application support documents, are essential to getting a job,” said Baldoz. She added that […]
