Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
(Reuters) — U.S. President Barack Obama appeared on the daytime talk show “Ellen” on Thursday (March 20), where TV host Ellen DeGeneres checked in on him while his wife is traveling in Asia. The playful interview started with a list of questions provided by first lady, Michelle Obama, who is visiting China with the couple’s two daughters. The president also took the appearance as an opportunity to plug his signature healthcare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. The deadline […]
MANILA, March 21 (PNA) — Eight more provinces in Mindanao are now under public storm warning signal no. 1 as tropical depression “Caloy” has slightly accelerated as it moves closer to Surigao del Sur and Davao Oriental area, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Friday. Earlier, PAGASA raised public storm warning no. 1 in four other provinces in Mindanao. In an interview, PAGASA weather forecaster Gener Quitlong said as of […]
Senator Francis Escudero is asking the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to cite National Agri-Business Corporation president Allan Javellana for contempt because of his continued disregard to the summons of the said committee regarding the investigation in the pork barrel scam.
A yacht hit the Bastera Reef, which is part of the Tubbataha Reef in Palawan. The two American passengers were rescued while the Philippine Coast Guard is still investigating the incident.
Janet Lim Napoles appeals to the Makati City Regional Trial Court Branch 150 to permit her to undergo hospitalization and surgery because of intense menstrual bleeding.
The low pressure area being monitored by PAGASA finally developed into a storm, designated by the agency as “Caloy”. The storm hit eastern Mindanao, with Davao and other provinces being put under signal number 1.
Because of the large numbers of infrastructure projects to be implemented this year, an estimated 536, 523 workers will be given employment, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways.
19 Filipino seamen joined in the massive search in the southern Indian Ocean for two large debris suspected coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines Filght MH370. The 19 Filipinos form part of the crew of the Norwegian merchant ship “St. Petersburg”
Twenty Filipinos refused to identify and give information about themselves to the Philippine embassy after being arrested by the Spanish police for illegal drugs, thwarting the efforts of the embassy to give them aid.
(Reuters) – Half a million people fell sick with dangerous superbug strains of tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, but fewer than one in four were diagnosed, putting the rest at risk of dying due to the wrong medicines or no treatment at all. Latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO), which says drug-resistant TB is a “global health security risk”, showed a third of the estimated 9 million people who contract TB in any form […]
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – If you’re a dinosaur with a nickname as funky as “the chicken from hell,” you had better be able to back it up. A dinosaur called Anzu wyliei that scientists identified on Wednesday from fossils found in North Dakota and South Dakota does just that. It had a head shaped like a bird’s, a toothless beak, an odd crest on its cranium, hands with big sharp claws, long legs for fast […]
Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the hard drives of the computers belonging to the pilot and co-pilot of Malaysia Airline Filght MH 370. Malaysian officials declared that some data have been erased and forensic investigators are trying to reconstruct the lost data.
