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(Eagle News) — A Chinese passenger plane skidded off a runway at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Thursday night, Aug. 17. According to the Manila International Airport Authority, all 157 passengers and eight crew members of the Xiamen Airlines plane, with flight number MF8667, were safe. Based on a report, the plane experienced a “runway excursion” as it was about to land on the runway at 11:55 p.m. amid the heavy downpour. Initial reports […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Ecuador announced Thursday it was tightening entry requirements for Venezuelans to help deal with a wave of immigration from the crisis-torn country. Interior Minister Mauro Toscanini said Venezuelans entering the country will be required to present passports from Saturday. Up to now, Venezuelan nationals only had to present ID cards at the border, where they received a letter that allowed them to circulate freely in Ecuador. The move is part of […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Middle-aged people who get roughly half their daily calories from carbohydrates live several years longer on average than those with low-carb diets, researchers reported Friday. The findings, published in The Lancet, challenge a trend in Europe and North America toward so-called Paleo diets that shun carbohydrates in favour of animal protein and fat. Proponents of these “Stone Age” diets argue that the rapid shift 10,000 years ago — with the advent […]
by Remi Banet with Terry Daley in Rome Agence France-Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) — Italy’s populist government intensified its attacks Thursday on the bridge operator it blames for the viaduct collapse that killed dozens of people in Genoa, as rescuers picked through rubble on the third day of desperate efforts to find survivors. Anger is mounting over the tragedy and the structural problems that have dogged the decades-old Morandi bridge, which buckled without warning […]
CANADA (Eagle News) — Smoke from wildfires in British Columbia, Canada has drifted east towards the Canadian province of Alberta. Haze is visible from Vancouver to as far as Edmonton and Calgary. The smoke is affecting air quality and is expected to remain for several days according to Environment Canada. (Eagle News Service)
KOCHI, India (AFP) — Helicopters airlifted stranded families from rooftops and dam gates were thrown open as incessant torrential rain brought fresh havoc Thursday to the Indian state of Kerala where about 100 people are feared dead. Hundreds of extra troops were deployed in the southern state, a major tourist hotspot, as the government issued a “red alert” over the region’s worst floods in decades. State authorities said the confirmed death toll was 72 […]
(Eagle News) — Even though he called on Davao Mayor Sara Duterte to run for a Senate seat in 2019, Senator Koko Pimentel said he was not confident he could actually convince her to do so. “Ay hindi ako kumpiyansa kasi kausap ko si Presidente kagabi e. Kilala daw niya si Sara, mukhang magme-mayor lang but still she should give it a second thought,” he said. Nonetheless, he said “I’m encouraging her to run especially now […]
https://youtu.be/hzHhk8iNv-Y GENOA, Italy (AFP) — Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte declared Wednesday a 12-month state of emergency in Genoa following the collapse of a motorway bridge that killed at least 39 people. “A cabinet meeting took place in which we have decreed a 12-month state of emergency and made available a first allocation worth five million euros ($5.7 million) for the national emergencies fund,” Conte said in a press conference in the northwestern port […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Labor and Employment on Thursday, Aug. 16, released the rules on the payment of wages on Aug. 21, which President Rodrigo Duterte declared a holiday. According to Labor Advisory Number 12, if an employee did not work on that day, he/she shall be paid 100 percent of his/her salary for that day. “For work done during a regular holiday that also falls on a special day, he/she shall be paid […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s biggest Buddhist denomination ordered its executive head to step down Thursday amid mounting allegations he forged his academic credentials, accumulated vast wealth, and broke his vows of celibacy. The 56-14 vote of no confidence in Seoljeong, president of the Jogye Order, by its central committee is the first in a history that dates back hundreds of years — the organization is believed to have been established in […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A Malaysian drug dealer dubbed the “Iceman” was sentenced to death Thursday by a court in Thailand after he was convicted of running a narcotics network that funnelled huge profits into legitimate businesses. Tun Hung Seong was arrested in April last year after a tipoff that he had hired a man to smuggle nearly 300 kilogrammes of crystal meth — known as ice — through the violence-scarred south. Investigators believe […]
(Eagle News) — “Let’s give it a chance.” This was the message of the Palace to critics of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s driver-only vehicle ban on Edsa during rush hours. “Lahat naman po ine-explore natin para magkaroon ng solusyon dito sa problema ng traffic,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press conference on Thursday, Aug. 16. According to Roque, the ban was “implemented….sa maraming parte ng daigdig..” “Hindi naman sila nagrereklamo ng discrimination. Talagang […]
