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Palace: President open to having compromise with House on cash-based budgeting system

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte is open to having a compromise with the House of Representatives on the proposal to implement a cash-based budgeting system for next year. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said as such, the President will meet with Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno and Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III on the issue. According to Roque, the President’s decision came after he met with Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Majority Leader Rolando Andaya in Malacañang, along with other […]

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Brace for extra-warm weather through 2022: study

by Marlowe Hood  Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Manmade global warming and a natural surge in Earth’s surface temperature will join forces to make the next five years exceptionally hot, according to a study published Tuesday. The double whammy of climate change and so-called natural variability more than doubles the likelihood of “extreme warm events” in ocean surface waters, creating a dangerous breeding ground for hurricanes and typhoons, they reported in Nature Communications. “This […]

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MMDA: Ban on driver-only vehicles during rush hours on Edsa applies to TNVS

(Eagle News)–The  ban on driver-only vehicles on Edsa during rush hours applies to vehicles of transport network companies as well, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said on Wednesday, Aug 15. In an interview over Unang Balita, MMDA spokesperson Celine Pialago said this is according to MMDA General Manager Jojo Garcia. “Tratatuhin ho natin silang private vehicle,” she said. She said if these vehicles needed to pick up passengers from Edsa, “kindly exit dun sa pinaka-unang kanto […]

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President Duterte ready to resign; says he’s too tired and can’t end drug, corruption problem within his term

  (Eagle New) – Saying he is tired and exasperated, President Rodrigo Duterte said he is now ready to resign  realizing that he cannot finish the war on corruption and drugs within his term as what he had promised to the people. “I do not think that I can fulfill my promise to the people. I said I was the first one to finish because I used the bullet style. Having been a prosecutor in […]

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Podcasts take growing role in shifting media landscape

by Thomas URBAIN Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — As radio fades in the new world of digital media, podcasting has become hot. In less than 15 years, on-demand podcasts have become a key part of the media landscape that is luring advertisers to a market that is worth tens of millions of dollars and growing. According to Edison Research, 124 million Americans listen to audio podcasts including 73 million on a monthly […]

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Tokyo stocks open higher as Turkey jitters ease

  TOKYO, Japan (AFP)–Tokyo stocks opened slightly higher on Wednesday after the Turkish lira rebounded but investors continued to keep a nervous eye on Turkey’s currency crisis. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index gained 0.09 percent or 20.78 points to 22,376.86 in early trade while the broader Topix index was up 0.21 percent or 3.53 points at 1,714.58. Wall Street advanced on Tuesday as Turkey’s lira recovered some ground. But investors were watching closely after the […]

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Floodlight search for survivors after deadly Italy bridge collapse

by Vincent-Xavier Morvan Agence France-Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) – Italian rescuers searched through the night Wednesday for any survivors under the shattered remains of a motorway bridge in Genoa as investigators probed what could have caused such a catastrophic collapse. Some 30 people were killed on Tuesday when a vast span of the Morandi bridge collapsed during a heavy rainstorm, sending vehicles and their drivers plunging 100-metres (330 feet) onto railway tracks below. Rescuers spent […]

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Isa katao, natabunan sa pagguho ng lupa sa Brgy. Bedbed, Mankayan

(Eagle News) — Natabunan at tinangay ng pagguho ng lupa ang isang residente ng Barangay Bedbed, Mankayan, bunga ng malakas na ulan. Ang biktima ay kinilalang si Ginang Luvina Kidkid, Barangay Secretary ng Bedbed, Mankayan. Ayon sa mga residente, sila ay nagkaroon ng Bayanihang paglilinis. Habang sila ay naglilinis sa kalsada bandang alas-onse ng umaga (11:00 AM) nitong Lunes, Agosto 13 ay naramdaman nila ang paggalaw ng isang sasakyan. iIto ay umpisa na pala ng […]

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Lebel ng tubig sa San Roque dam, mataas pa rin; klase sa ilang eskwelahan sa Pangasinan, suspendido

(Eagle News) — Lubog pa rin sa baha ang ilang mga lugar na nasa low lying areas at tabi ng ilog, ito ay sa kabila ng pagtila na ng ulan. Kabilang sa mga inabot ng pagbaha ay ang Dagupan City dahil sa pag-apaw ng Pantal River, Sta. Barbara, Sinucalan River , Calasiao at Marusay Rivers. Binabaha rin ang mga bayan na nasa tabi ng Agno River na umaapaw ngayon dahil sa pinapakawalang tubig sa San […]

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WHO worried Ebola can ‘transmit freely’ in DR Congo, as death toll hits 41

Raging conflict is hampering efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the WHO chief warned Tuesday, urging a ceasefire to stop the virus from transmitting freely. As the death toll in the outbreak declared on August 1 in DRC’s violence-wracked North Kivu province hit 41, the World Health Organization chief also called for the rapid roll-out of an unlicenced drug being used for the first time to treat Ebola […]

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Tinder founders sue parent firm alleging cheating on stock options

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP)–Tinder founders and early employees filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing parent firm InterActiveCorp of cheating them out of billions of dollars by manipulating the value of stock options for the popular dating app. The suit filed in New York contends that IAC and its spinoff Match Group, which owns Tinder, schemed to dramatically drive down the value of stock options and then eliminate them altogether. The companies “made contractual promises to […]

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US: N. Korea talks moving ‘in right direction’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US talks with North Korea on denuclearization are making progress “in the right direction,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Tuesday. Nauert said behind-the-scenes discussions with Pyongyang have normalized in the wake of President Donald Trump’s June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and subsequent meetings between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top Pyongyang officials. “We consider meetings, negotiations, conversations as we move forward behind […]

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