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QUEZON City, Philippines, August 17 (Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is going to take actions against the New People’s Army’s (NPA) “permit to campaign” especially now that the 2016 presidential elections are near. According to the AFP, the NPA usually asks for payment from running candidates in exchange for protection and also the guarantee that they will not sabotage said candidates’ campaign. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, […]
AUGUST 17 (Reuters) — A German university has created a computer-animated video showing a simulated flight over a regions of Mars. Using data gathered from a High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express aircraft which is operated by the German Aerospae Center (DLR), scientists at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin were able to piece together and create a computer-animated video showing how the ground could look in a […]
(Reuters) — Indonesian search and rescue officials said on Monday (August 17) that the crashed aircraft with 54 people on board had been detected in a forested, mountainous area in remote Papua province. The Trigana Air Service ATR 42-300 plane crashed on Sunday (August 16), the latest in a string of aviation disasters in Southeast Asia. Heavy cloud initially delayed plans for an aerial survey to locate the plane that took off from Sentani Airport […]
AUGUST 17 (Reuters) — Two trains crashed 50km (31 miles) northeast of Budapest early on Sunday (August 16), injuring 19 people, Hungarian police said. Two people were injured seriously, Imre Kavalecz, spokesman for state rail company MAV, was quoted as saying by national news agency MTI. The trains were carrying 30 to 40 passengers and were traveling at a low speed of about 20km per hour when the crash happened near Galgaguta, Kavalecz said. An […]
MANILA, Philippines, August 17 (Eagle News) — While the congress deleted some provisions of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), the senate, for its part, has replaced the entire version of the bill with its own, through the efforts of Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Chairman of the local government committee tackling the proposed measure. Marcos said he was prepared to defend his substitute bill and urged the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to exercise flexibility. The […]
MANILA, Philippines (August 17) — Cagayan De Oro Representative Rufus Rodriguez, Chairman of the 75-member house Ad-Hoc Committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), reiterated that the deletions of said provisions are necessary to make the bill constitutionally compliant. Rodriguez also added that if these provisions are restored, the bill may not be able to pass the Supreme Court’s constitutional scrutiny. Rodriguez also warned that restoring the deleted or amended provisions could erode support for […]
(Reuters) — Japan’s economy shrank at an annualized pace of 1.6 percent in April-June, government data showed on Monday (August 17) as exports slumped and consumers cut back spending, a bad omen for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy drive to lift the economy out of decades of deflation. China’s economic slowdown and its impact on its Asian neighbours have also heightened the chance that any rebound in growth in July-September will be modest, according to […]
(Reuters) — Hundreds of angry residents whose homes had been destroyed in the Tianjin explosions gathered outside an official news conference venue on Monday (August 17), demanding answers. People from a residential area near the blast site held banners reading “Give back our homes” and marched to a hotel where a government news conference was due to take place. The residents said they wanted answers from the government. “Now our homes have been destroyed, can’t […]
MANILA – Educa Philippines 2015 is going to see for the first time Israel’s participation with a group of companies, including a major player in the field of educational technology. The Economic and Trade Office of the Israel Embassy will participate in the 6th International Exhibition on Education, Continuous Learning and Corporate Training through equipment, information, methodology and technology on August 20 to 22, 2015 at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City. […]
Pusong Bato by Martika Ramirez Escobar was named Best Short Film in the 11th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition, which this year was held only in the Short Feature category, while the Special Jury Prize and the NETPAC Award was given to Wawa by Angelie Mae Macalanda in the Cinemalaya Awards program held August 15 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Little Theater. Praised “for its playfulness in telling a story, for creating tension between nostalgia […]
QUEZON CITY, Aug. 16 (PIA) — The Light Railway Transit Authority (LRTA) announced last Friday, August 14 that passengers of LRT-1 on southbound journeys can now use the “beep” cards starting on Sunday, August 16. In a statement, private supplier AF Payments Inc., CEO Peter Maher said a successful trial was conducted on the southbound direction of LRT-1. AF Payments Inc. has conducted selling activities for pre-loaded beepTM cards from August 10 to 14 at seven […]
KALIBO, Aklan, August 17 (PIA6) — Did you know that at home or in government or private offices, people can do many things to help conserve electricity and in the process – pay lesser electric bills and therefore use the savings to buy other household or office needs? This and more were shared by officials of the Department of Energy (DOE) here when they recently conducted an IEC/Seminar on Government Energy Management Program (GEMP) for […]
