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MANILA, Philippines, August 25 (Eagle News) — After a meeting with his close adviser, President Benigno S. Aquino III asked Bureau of Customs (BOC) Chief Albert Lina not to open the balikbayan boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers and to use mobile x-ray machines and drug-sniffing dogs instead. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines (August 25) – The escalation of conflict between North Korea and South Korea is intense. North Korea accused South Korea of being “war maniacs” and the tension between the two nations is getting worse. The question now is how the Korean people will recover? They may have the best equipment in battle but the sad truth is there are a lot of citizens in both Koreas whose everyday lives will be affected in […]
AUGUST 25 (Reuters) — South Koreans on Tuesday (August 25) welcomed the news that the two Koreas reached an agreement on Tuesday (August 25) to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean soldiers in landmine blasts and Seoul agreed to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts, […]
BAGUIO CITY (PIA) – – The Department of Health (DOH) calls on the public anew to practice the search and destroy campaign against possible mosquito breeding sites as monitoring shows rise in Dengue cases regionwide. DOH Cordillera Regional Director Dr. Amelita Pangilinan, in a kapihan forum last week, reported a total of 2,383 Dengue cases from January to August 8, which is 103 percent increase compared to the recorded cases during the same period last […]
AUGUST 25 (Reuters) — South Korean defense ministry said on Tuesday (August 25) both North and South Korea would begin rolling back heightened military postures at noon (0300 GMT), after the two Koreas reach reached agreement early on Tuesday to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding […]
AUGUST 25 (CCTV) — The Chinese stock markets on Monday had their worst day in eight years with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index tumbling 8.49 percent to close at 3209.91 points. It marked the steepest dive since Feb. 27, 2007, and came less than a month after a similar plunge on July 27 this year, when the stock market lost 8.48 percent. The astonishing loss came one day after the government’s approval to allow the […]
QUEZON CITY, Aug. 25 — Responding to the driver’s license backlog issue, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) has activated 25 sites in Metro Manila, Regions 3, 4-A, and 8, for license issuances. Allcard Plastics will be responsible of the delivery of license cards over a 12-month period. The agency aims to erase 900,000 backlogs by the start of October 2015. To address the Agency Aims to Erase 900,000 Backlog by Start of October 2015 After […]
By Ciara Lee (REUTERS) — The alarm bells rang in China – and they were heard in Europe. Markets there opened more than three percent in the red The UK’s FTSE 100, France’s CAC 40 and Germany’s DAX were all down in morning trade. Robert Halver, head of Capital Market Analysis at Baader Bank said: “The 10,000 mark is psychologically important. The index is no longer five digit, it’s four digit and now we have entered […]
Islamic State militants on Sunday (August 23) blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country’s antiquities chief. The temple bombing would be the first time the insurgents, who control swathes of Syria and Iraq and captured Palmyra in May, damaged monumental Roman-era ruins. A week ago, the militants beheaded Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old scholar who worked for more […]
AUGUST 24 (Reuters) — The hugely successful boy band One Direction will take a year-long break next year so that members can pursue separate interests, a report in a British newspaper said on Monday. The break will come after the band, reduced to four members following the departure of Zayn Malik earlier this year, release their fifth album in March, the report in the Sun said. “The guys have been together for five years, which […]
(Eagle News) — President Aquino said on Monday that he is set to meet with key officials to discuss the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) plan to conduct random inspections of balikbayan boxes that has drawn complaints from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). The President told reporters in Cebu City that he had already called Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima and Customs Commissioner Bert Lina to a meeting as soon as he gets back to Manila. He said […]
AUGUST 24 (Reuters) — Japanese stocks posted their biggest fall in more than two years on Monday (August 24), with the Nikkei average sinking to a 6-month low on fears of a China-led global economic slump. The Nikkei share average dropped 4.6 percent to 18,540.68, falling below its 200-day moving average for the first time since October. The broader Topix fell 5.9 percent to close at 1,480.87, with its turnover surpassing 4 trillion yen for […]
