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(Eagle News)–Several flights were canceled on Monday, Aug. 20, following delays resulting from a runway closure at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport due to a Chinese passenger plane making a hard landing. The Manila International Airport Authority said the following flights have been canceled: AirAsia Z2 0763 Manila – Cebu Z2 0764 Cebu – Manila Z2 0424 Manila – Puerto Princesa Z2 0425 Puerto Princesa – Manila Z2 0309 Manila – Iloilo Z2 0310 Iloilo […]
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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Sunday, Aug. 19, thanked the members of the Consultative Commission “for completing its task of studying and reviewing the provisions of the 1987 Constitution.” “Drafting a new Constitution is no easy task but it has been done and accomplished,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said a day after the Con-Com completed its final en banc session. According to Roque, “it is now up to Congress to do its part in finalizing […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine General Hospital on Sunday, Aug. 19, stood by the doctor whom Ramon Tulfo accused of negligence after he allegedly failed to treat a child the columnist’s car bumped in Navotas. “We reiterate that at no point was necessary medical intervention withheld from the victim when the child was at the Triage of the ER of PGH. If ever there was any disruption in service to the victim is was directly […]
(Eagle News)—The lives of scalawag policemen are priceless, too. This is according to the Commission on Human Rights, which reacted to President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement increasing the bounty for dead rogue policemen to P5 million. Duterte set a bounty of P10,000 for each “ninja cop” who was alive. “Ninja cops or scalawags in the police force, the Commission agrees, are a disgrace to the institution and, therefore, must be removed from the service. However, like […]
(Eagle News)–The Russian embassy in Manila slammed a US official for warning the Philippines against buying military equipment from them. “Mr. Schriver’s interview may point to acute attack of colonial syndrome. It is another testament that this sickness as well as propensity to lecture other countries and give unsolicited advice is still prevalent in Washington,” the embassy said in a statement posted on its Facebook account. The embassy was referring to US Assistant Secretary of Defense for […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte assured that the 2019 midterm elections will push through as scheduled and stressed that it will be clean. Duterte, during the convention of the regional political party, Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP), in Lanang, Davao City on Friday, August 17, said the conduct of clean elections next year is his commitment to the Filipino people. “In this election, I commit to the Filipino people that this will be a clean […]
LOMBOK, Indonesia (AFP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday, sending people fleeing into the streets just two weeks after a tremor killed more than 460 people. The quake, centred in East Lombok, hit at a relatively shallow depth of seven kilometres (four miles) and was felt across the island, officials said. But it was less powerful than the deadly quake earlier this month and there were no immediate […]
by Bhuvan Bagga Agence France Presse THRISSUR, India (AFP) — Rescuers waded into submerged villages in southern India on Sunday in a desperate search for survivors cut off for days by floods that have already killed more than 350 people. Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state’s worst floods in a century, and emergency responders fear the death toll will rise as they reach areas almost entirely underwater. In Thrissur, […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines joined the international community in mourning the passing of Kofi Annan, former United Nations secretary. In a statement, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said the Philippines “will remember” the “statesman, diplomat, and peacemaker” for his “unwavering commitment to multilateralism that reinvigorated the (UN) and brought peace to places around the world that have been torn apart by conflict.” “His dignity, vision, and determination has made our world a better place to […]
(Eagle News)–The cancellation of several flights as a result of a Xiamen plane getting stuck on a Ninoy Aquino International Airport runway after making a hard landing “is already a signal for a new airport to be built.” This is according to Senator JV Ejercito, in a statement on Sunday, Aug. 19. “The single International runway will not really work anymore..At this point the quickest solution for Manila’s airport problems is to have a twin […]
A strong 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Fiji Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but it was too deep to generate a tsunami and there were no reports of damage. The tremor hit at 12:19 pm (0019 GMT) local time 361 kilometres (224 miles) east of the Pacific nation’s capital Suva, at a depth of 563 kilometres, the US seismologists said. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was “no tsunami threat because the […]
