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Japanese parents of North Korea abductee meet granddaughter

(Reuters) – The parents of a Japanese girl who was abducted by North Korea more than three decades ago met their child’s daughter for the first time last week, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. North Korea admitted in 2002 that it had kidnapped 13 Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s to help train spies and said eight of them had died, including Megumi Yokota, who was abducted in 1977 on her way home […]

Pole-sitter Hamilton retires from Australian GP

(Reuters) – Pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton retired from the Australian Formula One Grand Prix on his third lap of the Albert Park circuit after an engine problem on Sunday. The 29-year-old Mercedes driver, fastest in Saturday qualifying, was told to retire over his team radio due to a reliability problem and duly pitted, removing the steering wheel after parking up. “I think I was driving on five cylinders,” Hamilton told Britain’s Sky television. “It’s a bit […]

Investigators look for motive in Malaysia plane disappearance

(Reuters) – Police are combing through the personal, political and religious backgrounds of pilots and crew of a missing Malaysian jetliner, a senior officer said on Sunday, trying to work out why someone aboard flew the plane hundreds of miles off course. No trace of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER has been found since it vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, but investigators believe it was diverted by someone who knew how […]

INC reinforces relief and medical mission in Tacloban with housing and livelihood aid for Yolanda survivors

TACLOBAN City — The Iglesia Ni Cristo unveiled on Friday, March 14, a “model community” for the benefit of its brethren who were affected by super-typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) more than four months ago, in fulfillment of its promise to help survivors of the strongest typhoon on record to ever hit the country. INC Executive Minister Eduardo V. Manalo led the groundbreaking ceremonies of the INC’s resettlement housing and eco-farming community in Sitio New […]

India scours jungle islands for lost Malaysian jetliner

(Reuters) – Indian aircraft on Friday combed Andaman and Nicobar, made up of more than 500 mostly uninhabited islands, for signs of a missing Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL) jetliner that evidence suggests was last headed towards the heavily forested archipelago. Popular with tourists and anthropologists alike, the islands form India’s most isolated state. They are best known for dense rainforests, coral reefs and hunter-gatherer tribes who have long resisted contact with outsiders. The search for lost […]

Lost airliner was diverted deliberately: Malaysian PM

(Reuters) – A missing Malaysian airliner was likely to have been deliberately steered to a course that could have taken it anywhere from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia’s prime minister said on Saturday. Minutes after Malaysian leader Najib Razak outlined investigators’ latest findings about flight MH370, police began searching the house of the aircraft’s 53-year-old captain for any evidence that he could have been involved in foul play. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER vanished […]

Fact sheet: INC resettlement and eco-farming site

FACT SHEET:   NEW ERA RESETTLEMENT AND ECO-FARMING SITE Sitio New Era, Barangay Langit, Alangalang, Leyte  Total land area:  3,000 hectares (owned by the Iglesia Ni Cristo) Area to be initially developed for housing, eco-farming and garments factory:  768 hectares  (to be expanded in the future) Type of housing:  quadruplex studio type Area of one quadruplex:  140 square meters Four units/quadruplex Lot Area per unit:  35 square meters Floor area per unit: 22 square meters […]