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KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Apr. 15 (PIA) — Mt. Apo, the country’s highest peak, is off limits to all mountaineers, an official of the city government of Kidapawan announced. Joey Recimilla, city tourism officer of Kidapawan and eco-tourism committee chair of the Mt. Apo Natural Park-Protected Area Management Board (MANP-PAMB), told Philippine Information Agency 12 that the PAMB has agreed to restrict climbing to the peak after the destructive forest fire. Recimilla said the PAMB, in […]
CALI, Colombia (Reuters) – Two cases of microcephaly linked to the Zika virus have been confirmed in Colombia, but there has been no explosion of cases of the birth defect, the health ministry said on Thursday (April 14). Public health officials have been concerned about the possibility of a surge in the rare birth defect, seen in worrisome numbers in Brazil, as the mosquito-borne virus spreads rapidly in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than […]
BAGUIO CITY , Apr. 15. – – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here has opened 80 vacant positions for the Government Internship Program (GIP) this year. The GIP aims to enable the youth to realize their potentials, become responsible individuals and active participants to national development, to initiate the youth to public service, to serve as recruitment mechanism for potential public employees and to extend possible financial assistance to the participants for […]
MANILA, April 15 – President Benigno S. Aquino III on Thursday met with US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter during a courtesy call in Malacañang Palace. Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and Foreign Affairs Secretary Jose Rene Almendras joined President Aquino during his meeting with Carter. The American defense chief, who arrived in the country on Wednesday, was accompanied by US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg; Ambassador David Shear, US assistant secretary of defense; Eric Rosenbach, […]
MANILA,Philippines (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said he would visit a warship close to flashpoint waters of the South China Sea on Friday, as Beijing reacted defiantly to an American military build-up in area. “Later today, I will visit the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, sailing in the South China Sea, after some of its sailors and Marines participated with you in Balikatan,” Carter said in Manila, referring to annual war games […]
QUEZON CITY, April 15 — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is reminding all taxpayers that the deadline for the filing of 2015 Income Tax Returns and the payment of the tax due thereon, if any, is today, April 15, 2016. There will be no extension of the said deadline just like what was strictly enforced during the income tax filing/payment deadline in 2015. Tax returns filed and taxes paid after 5 pm of April 15, 2016 will be slapped with the […]
LE LOCLE, Switzerland (Reuters) – In two small Swiss towns, watchmakers are trying to strike a balance as delicate as the mechanisms in their precision-engineered watches – squeezing suppliers to cope with an industry crisis while preserving the skills that drove past successes. Every gesture is precise, calibrated. And requires patience and dexterity. In 150-year-old Swiss luxury watchmaking manufacture Zenith, 250 people work each day to invent, design, assemble, decorate tiny mechanisms, or movements, into […]
BALIK operasyon na ang Kalibo International Airport matapos ma-ialis sa runway nito ang sumadsad na eroplano ng SEAIR kahapon. Nahila na rin ang rumespondeng firetruck na nahulog sa kanal. Ayon kay Engr. Martin Terre, manager ng Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines sa Aklan, pasado alas 9 kagabi ng muling buksan ang airport. Magsasagawa naman ng imbestigasyon ang CAAP upang malaman ang tunay na sanhi ng pagsadsad ng eroplano. Dahil sa pangyayari, maraming pasahero ang naistranded sa […]
BADONG COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, China (Reuters) – Within 35 years the countries where roughly half the world’s population lives may be facing what scientists are calling a “high risk of severe water stress”. That translates into billions of people having access to a lot less water than they do today, according to a new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “There is about a one in three chance that if we take no action […]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) – The world’s largest private collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia will go up for auction in November, with stage costumes from movies “Some Like it Hot” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business” expected to fetch up to $400,000. Julien’s Auctions said that the collection, owned by Briton David Gainsborough Roberts, is conservatively valued at around $3 million. As well as several costumes and personal wardrobe pieces owned by […]
Eagle News – Himutok pa ng mga militante ang mga mahihirap na magsasakang dumadaing ng gutom ang hinuli at ikunulong habang ang kagaya ni Janet Lim Napoles pinalalaya Isang sulat naman ang ipinarating ng Grupong Gabriella sa kalihim ng Department of Justice. Hiling nila ang pagpapalaya sa anim na Senior Citizen at tatlong babaeng buntis na hinuli at ikinulong at kinasuhan ng Direct Assault. Paliwanag ng grupo walang kakayanan ang mga matatanda at buntis sa […]
LONDON, ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) – With disorientating corridors, dark enclosed spaces and freaky horror scenes, the hugely popular “Goosebumps” book series comes to life in a new immersive theater show taking audiences through hair-raising stories. Based on the 1990s children’s horror books by R.L Stine, “Goosebumps Alive” leads viewers from one scary tale to another as they make their way around the dark tunnels of The Vaults venue at London’s Waterloo. From frightening monsters […]
