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Says OFWs in Israel banking on PHL gov’t’s contingency plan, evacuation if situation worsens (Eagle News) — A Filipino health worker in Israel talks about how they are affected by ongoing tensions in that area as rockets continued to rain down in the region. Marlyn Sanchez said that they could not sleep at night and are continually on the alert for sirens that would signal that they have to run to shelters underneath their […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippine economy shrank for the third straight quarter in July-September, official data showed Tuesday, but there were signs activity was slowly picking up as coronavirus restrictions eased and more businesses reopened. President Rodrigo Duterte’s government has been gradually loosening measures introduced in March to contain the virus after they sent the country plunging into its first recession in three decades and pushed many families deeper into poverty. Gross domestic product […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore showed off two critically-endangered eagles Wednesday that were loaned from the Philippines as part of a breeding program to reverse the dwindling numbers of the feathered giants. Destruction of tropical rainforest and relentless hunting have decimated the population of the Philippine Eagle — one of the world’s biggest and most powerful birds whose wingspan can reach 2 meters (7 feet) — with only around 800 believed left in the wild, […]
Inilunsad ang opening ceremony ng Pre-Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games sa Harrison Plaza kamakailan. Ang event—na nilahukan ng mahigit 500 participants mula sa iba’t-ibang lugar sa Luzon—ay pinangunahan nila Congressman Monsour del Rosario at Secretary General Raymond Lee Reyes. Dumalo din sina Philippine Olympic Committee President Jose “Peping Cojuangco at Rafael Nepomuceno sa opening ceremony para pasinayaan ang nasabing palaro. Ang mga sport na tampok sa indoor martial arts competition ay kick boxing, belt […]
From Defense to Science, from Education to Trade, a wave of new agreements pave the way for Philippine-Czech cooperation. From the first Czech Jesuit missionaries in Manila and the Visayas in 1680s to Czech defenders of Bataan during WW2, the Czech relations with the Philippines bore deep roots. Besides Filipino pilgrims visiting Prague’s Santo Nino to the tourists eager to walk the city’s historical center, scientists and businessmen are nowadays the most frequent Filipino visitors […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — At least 33 people have been injured in two separate bomb attacks in the Philippines, authorities said Thursday. In the first incident, two bombs exploded late Wednesday in the central island of Leyte, wounding 27 people who were watching a boxing match in Hilongos, police said. Another unexploded bomb was also found in the town, which is about 620 kilometers (385 miles) south of Manila, said the town’s mayor Albert Villahermosa. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The head of prominent Philippine online gaming firm Philweb Corp. resigned Thursday, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to “destroy” him and accused him of being an oligarch. Speaking to members of an election watchdog on Wednesday, Duterte called Ongpin an oligarch, saying the company’s chief got rich thanks to his close connections with four previous presidents, including the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Duterte, who has launched a controversial crackdown […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine government forces fought hundreds of Islamic militants on two remote islands Thursday, with the military aircraft-backed campaign leaving up to 10 people dead, the army said. The gun battles on the southern islands of Jolo and Basilan followed orders by new President Rodrigo Duterte for the security services to go after the Abu Sayyaf, which recently beheaded two foreign hostages and is also blamed for the worst terror attacks in […]
by Mynardo MACARAIG MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte takes office this week looking to end the domination of “Imperial Manila” with a radical shift to federalism that he says is vital to fighting poverty and ending a deadly Muslim separatist insurgency. Duterte, who won last month’s elections in a landslide, has vowed to have the constitution rewritten to achieve his bold plans — which would see power devolved from the central government […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Five new orchid species have been discovered in remote Philippine mountains, protected from poaching because of an insurgency in the region, conservationists said Friday. The species are found only in a mountain range on the rebellion-torn Mindanao area in the southern Philippines and have eluded those cataloguing plant life for 200 years, expert Miguel David de Leon told AFP. Poaching of wild orchids mostly by locals is rampant in the Philippines, […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Jakarta banned Friday any Indonesian-flagged vessels from sailing to the Philippines, the transport ministry said, after yet another violent kidnapping in the strife-torn waters between the two nations. The ruling was issued after the government confirmed seven Indonesian sailors were kidnapped at gunpoint earlier this week, and were being held hostage by an unknown group. It’s the third time this year Indonesian sailors have been abducted in the Sulu sea, a […]
