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Authorities suspect P22-M worth of sugar supplies were being hoarded to manipulate sugar prices (Eagle News) – The Bureau of Customs found and seized some 44,000 sacks of imported sugar worth some P22 million in separate “raids” in warehouses in Pampanga and Bulacan on Thursday, August 18, 2022, suspected of being hoarded by traders to create a supply shortage. “The raids were in accordance with the marching orders of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The manager of an art venue where 36 people died in a fire in Oakland, California, in 2016 was formally sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison, but will serve out just 18 months of that from home with an electronic bracelet. “I am sick with shame. I am so sorry. My shame cannot stand as any defense against what I am responsible for,” Derick Almena, the leaseholder of […]
https://youtu.be/_fBuxGm8wyg (Eagle News) – The Skyway Stage 3 in Manila, which was originally scheduled to open this March, will open this July instead because of Saturday’s huge fire that engulfed the nearby San Miguel Corporation plastics factory warehouse. In a statement, the SMC said that the fire had damaged around 300 meters of the skyway. “Rest assured, we will work 24/7 to endeavor to complete the entire project in five months,” said SMC President […]
(Eagle News) – Hanggang sa susunod na buwan na lamang ang natitirang buffer stock ng bigas ng National Food Authority (NFA) sa buong bansa. Ayon sa tagapagsalita ng NFA na si Director Rex Estoperez, tinatayang nasa 1.5 milyong sako ng bigas ang natitira sa mga warehouse ng NFA sa kasalukuyan. Pero ang natitirang bigas ay nakalaan na lamang para sa emergency relief operation ng Department of Social Welfare and Development, gaya ng nakaimbak sa warehouse […]
(Eagle News) — Fire hit a warehouse of Dunlop International Philippines in Mariveles, Bataan on Tuesday, November 21, 2017. The Dunlop factory in Mariveles is known as the maker of tennis balls used in the international Wimbledon tournaments. There are still no reports if there were people hurt in the incident. Based on the initial investigation, the fire first hit the warehouse where rubber materials used in the manufacture of tennis balls […]
(Eagle News) — Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon faced mounting calls to resign from his post after congressmen accused him and his men of incompetence for allowing the shipment of more than P6 billion worth of drugs in the country and for bungling what could have been a strong case against suspected drug personalities responsible for the shipment. “You should all resign,” a fuming Rep. Ace Barbers, chair of the committee on dangerous drugs of the […]
KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) — A massive fire broke out on Thursday (March 23) at an arms warehouse in the east Ukrainian province of Kharkiv. Several hours after the fire started, flames were still rising from the territory around the arsenal. Explosions could also be heard. Ukrainian prosecutor Anatoly Matios was quoted as saying the warehouse area covers 368 hectares and there were 138 tons of arms stored on it. According to local media, Ukrainian emergency […]
