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Seoul, South Korea (AFP) — An Indian movie about an impoverished woman involved in a pyramid scheme has won the key prize at this year’s Busan International Film Festival, organisers announced Friday. A total of 10 movies were in the running for the high-profile New Currents award at Asia’s largest festival, with two winners selected for the $30,000 prize. The other recipient of the prestigious award — reserved for first or second-time Asian directors […]
Busan, South Korea (AFP) — Movie stars, directors and fans descended on South Korea’s port town of Busan Wednesday as Asia’s largest film festival returned at full power post-pandemic, with an Iranian film opening the event. Top Korean actors and Asian stars including Hong Kong’s legendary Tony Leung are set to attend the Busan International Film Festival, which opened with a red carpet event and will run until October 14. South Korea has cemented its […]
PNP says ex-Talitay mayor also on national drug watchlist, BIFF arms supplier (Eagle News) — A former mayor of a Maguindanao town behind the 2016 Davao bombing was killed after he tried to grab the firearm of a policeman who was taking him to Camp Crame in Quezon City after his arrest, and shot him, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, Montasser Sabal, alias Sabal, former chief executive of the municipality of […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police chief Guillermo Eleazar ordered police units to go on the offensive against Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters. Eleazar gave the order after Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said the BIFF had intensified its recruitment activities and increased attacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I agree with our Presidential Peace Adviser, Sec. Carlito Galvez, that it is easy now for the BIFF to recruit members because the […]
(Eagle News)– The Philippine National Police will file criminal charges against the local terrorists behind the Datu Piang, Maguindanao attack on December 3. In a statement, PNP Chief Debold Sinas said the police would also implement “intensified security measures to prevent similar threats posed by violent extremists,” noting that the authorities were already in pursuit of the some 50 armed men who went on the 2-hour rampage. A PNP patrol car was burned in the […]
(Eagle News)—–A motorcycle left on a roadside in Maguindanao exploded on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Maj. Arvin John Encinas, spokesperson of the 6th Infantry Division, said the motorcycle left in Sitio Nes Talayan past noon had been rigged with explosives. He said the vehicle had been left there by a man who did not want to go through the military checkpoint where soldiers were conducting inspections. No one was reported hurt in the incident, which the military […]
(Eagle News)—Eight people were hurt after an improvised explosive device exploded in General Santos on Sunday, Sept. 16. The victims in the blast at a pharmacy near Hadano Park in the National Highway, were identified as Marlon Orabia, 30; Jerry Guyos, 19; Felipa Regidor, 64; Lally Jean Alipio, 34; John Calang, 22; Claire Uozolam, 24; Joana Alipio,3; and Jeslly Yvonne Guyos. The police said based on witnesses, two men were behind the incident, which Philippine National […]
(Eagle News)–A second blast rocked Isulan in Sultan Kudarat on Sundy, Sept. 2, leaving at least one dead and several injured. Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said the incident took place past 7 p.m., in Rrenz Internet Cafe at the corner of Valencia and Valdez Streets in Barangay Kalawag 2, based on a report to him. This was a short distance from where an improvised bomb under a motorcycle blew up on August 28, killing […]
(Eagle News)—-Authorities are eyeing another group in the blast in Sultan Kudarat on Tuesday, Aug. 28, as the death toll rose to three. A report over dzbb said authorities were looking into the possibility one Abu Turaifie group, led by one Esmail Sheikh Abdulmalik alias Abu Turaifie, was behind the incident in Isulan that also injured over 30 others. The Philippine National Police said the group claimed to have ties with the Islamic State. Earlier, […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, Aug. 29, condemned the blast in Sultan Kudarat that killed two and injured over 30 people on Tuesday night. “We vow to bring the perpetrators of this brazen attack to (sic) justice,” he said. The military so far dismissed reports the Islamic State was behind the bombing, airing their suspicions instead that the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters were behind the attack. “We will apply the full force of the […]
Count of injured now at 39 (Eagle News)—The death toll in the bomb explosion in Sultan Kudarat on Tuesday night has risen to two, the police said. The number of those injured was also now at 39, the police said, as they looked for those responsible behind the incident in Isulan. In a television interview Wednesday, Isulan police chief Supt. Celestino Daniel dismissed reports the Islamic State had a hand in the explosion. “Hindi pa po […]
(Eagle News) — Labintatlong miyembro ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) ang napatay sa sagupaan sa Philippine Army sa Maguindanao nitong Miyerkules, ika-4 ng Hulyo. Ayon sa AFP, anim ang nasugatan sa panig ng 40th Infantry Batallion ng Philippine Army sa engkuwentro na tumagal ng mahigit sa isang oras. Umatras ang mga terorista matapos silang bombahin ng militar gamit ang 105-millimeter howitzers cannon at dalawang helicopter gunship ng Philippine Air Force (PAF). Narekober ng militar sa […]
