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MUMBAI/SEOUL | BY HIMANK SHARMA AND SE YOUNG LEE (Reuters) — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is regaining smartphone share in India with a revamped line-up packed with special features including a safety mode for motorcyclists, as rival Apple Inc readies a renewed push into the world’s fastest-growing market. Long the leader in price-conscious India, the South Korean giant had been losing ground to local rivals such as Micromax and Lava, as well as Chinese brands. […]
QUEZON CITY – As the summer vacation starts, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reminds families to secure a travel clearance for their children, 17 years old and below, who will be traveling to other countries alone or with companions other than their parents. The reminder comes in time for the summer vacation when the number of travel clearance issued to minors noticeably increases. “Most parents working overseas want their children to stay […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – The largest oval fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at an auction shattered Asia’s jewelry auction record in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5) evening. The internally flawless blue diamond, weighing at 10.10 carats, was sold to an anonymous phone bidder at US$31.8 million at Sotheby’s Spring Sales after a couple minutes of bidding. Before a 12 percent buyer’s premium was added, the diamond’s hammer price of US$28.38 […]
(Reuters) — A Supreme Court judge ordered Brazil’s Congress on Tuesday to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Michel Temer, deepening a political crisis and uncertainty over leadership of Latin America’s largest country. Justice Marco Aurelio Mello told the lower house to convene an impeachment committee to consider putting Temer on trial on charges he helped manipulate budget accounting as part of President Dilma Rousseff’s administration. Another committee is already analyzing similar charges against Rousseff, […]
Eagle News International — Climate economists are warning that trillions of dollars’ worth of financial assets may be under threat from global warming’s effects by 2100. A team warned that if warming reaches 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial revolution levels by 2100; investments worth some $2.5 trillion dollars may be in danger. This was equal to half the current estimated stock market value of fossil-fuel companies. But even if the 2 degrees […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – A painting by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian sold for nearly $35 million (24.54 million pounds) at an auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5), the most one of his works has ever fetched, underscoring strong demand for quality Chinese art despite an overall slowdown in the market. The two-meter (6.5 feet) long scroll inkbrush painting “Peach Blossom Spring” more than tripled its expected price at a spring Sotheby’s […]
Reuters – A video released by NASA on Monday (April 4) shows a spectacular view of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The video shows city lights and lightning flashes as the ISS circles the Earth. NASA describes the ISS as a “microgravity laboratory”, occupied by six people travelling at a speed of 5 miles per second and orbiting the Earth every ninety minutes. The space station has been occupied continuously […]
North Korea can mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range missile, a South Korean official said on Tuesday in a new assessment of the capability of a country that conducted its fourth nuclear test this year. “We believe they have accomplished miniaturization of a nuclear warhead to mount it on a Rodong missile,” said the South Korean official, who has knowledge of South Korea’s assessment of the North’s nuclear program. The official spoke to a […]
UNITED Arab Emirates (Reuters) — A mobile app developed in the United Arab Emirates is hoping to help children with autism and other developmental disabilities better communicate with their parents and teachers. The Babnoor app is an Arabic language app that developers say is the first of its kind in the Middle East. Autism, formally known as autism spectrum disorder, is a disorder that affects how the brain processes information. Children with autism usually suffer from […]
(Reuters) — China has begun operating a lighthouse on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea near which a U.S. warship sailed last year to challenge China’s territorial claims. China claims most of the energy-rich waters of the South China Sea, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. But neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims. China’s transport ministry held a “completion ceremony”, marking […]
SUVA, Fiji (AFP) — Fiji was battening down for another tropical cyclone Wednesday, just weeks after the most powerful storm in the Pacific nation’s history left 44 people dead and crippled infrastructure. The Fiji Meteorological Service said Tropical Cyclone Zena formed overnight Tuesday when a depression west of the main island Vita Levu intensified. It said the category two cyclone, with wind gusts of up to 130 kilometres (80 miles) an hour, was gathering strength, […]
MANILA, Philippines — Nais nyo ba ng isang horror film ngayong Abril? Inihahandog ng Viva Films ang pelikulang “Elemento” na pagbibidahan ni Christine Reyes. Ito ay sa direksyon ng award winning direktor na si Mark Meily. First mainstream movie naman ito ng child actor na si Albert Silos na una ng nagpakitang gilas sa pelikulang “Turo-turo”. Sa naganap nitong presscon, nagkaroon tayo ng pagkakataon na makausap ang mga lead cast ng “Elemento”.
