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(AFP) — Asian markets on Thursday recovered from the previous day’s hammering, oil prices bounced and the dollar extended a rally on the back of expectations the US is better prepared to deal with a trade war with China. While investors remain on edge about a damaging standoff between the world’s two economic superpowers, there are hopes the two sides will avoid an escalation despite Donald Trump threatening tariffs on a further $200 billion of […]
(Eagle News) — Isang sama ng panahon sa labas ng Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) ang binabantayan ng Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. Huling namataan ang Low Pressure Area (LPA) sa layong 1,365 kilometro silangan ng Visayas. Wala pa itong epekto sa anumang bahagi ng bansa ngunit inaasahang papasok ito ng PAR ngayong weekend. Sakaling maging bagyo habang nasa loob ng bansa ay papangalanan itong “Henry.” Samantala, isa pang cloud cluster o kaulapan […]
(Eagle News)–The Makabayan bloc on Thursday, July 12,said it was open to “uniting” with Vice President Leni Robredo, who expressed willingness to lead the opposition against President Rodrigo Duterte. “Ang Makabayan ay bukas na makipagkaisa at makipagtulungan sa lahat ng handang lumaban sa mga kontra-mamamayan at kontra-mahirap na patakaran ng administrasyong ito na kinakatawan ni Pangulong Duterte,” ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. Antonio Tinio said. According to Tinio, it was “more important now” for opposition forces […]
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Boluntaryong sumuko sa 16th Infantry (Maglilingkod) Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division ng Philippine Army ang apat na miyembro ng Militia ng Bayan (MB) ng terrorist group na New People’s Army (NPA) na nag-o-operate sa hinterlands ng Paquibato District, Davao City. Base sa report, kanila ring isinuko ang 30 piraso na anti-personnel Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), apat na cal .38 revolver na may live ammunition, at 17 na assorted two-way commercial radio transceivers. […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that bans all forms of hazing and other initiation rites that will inflict physical and psychological harm, with the signing of the Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 or Republic Act No. 11053. It calls for stiffer penalties such as fine of P3 million, aside from penalty of reclusion perpetua for those who planned or participated in the hazing which results in death, rape,sodomy […]
(Eagle News)–Gilas player Terrence Romeo was briefly held at the police station after a a skirmish erupted outside a bar in Quezon City early Thursday. The skirmish allegedly started after a fan tried to take a picture with Romeo. “Una po, nakapagpapicture na kami kina Terrence. Pangalawa po, pauwi na kami, nagpapaalam po kami para magpapicture po ulit. Nagulat na lang po kami may bigla pong sumapak,” Clarissa Cabrera, wife of one of the victims, […]
(Eagle News) — Binalaan ng Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) ang mga nagbabalak magtrabaho sa China laban sa bagong modus na tinatawag na marriage-for-job. Kasunod ito ng ulat mula sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) hinggil sa limang Filipina na stranded sa Tongxu, China at humingi ng tulong sa pamahalaan matapos lokohin at pangakuan ng trabaho kapalit ng kasal sa mga Chinese national. Ayon sa POEA, mula Urbiztondo, Pangasinan ang nasabing mga Filipina na ni-recruit […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The toll in record rains that have devastated parts of Japan rose Thursday to 199, with dozens still missing, a top government spokesman said. Yoshihide Suga said search operations were continuing after the worst weather-related disaster in Japan in over three decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who visited one of the worst-affected regions on Wednesday, plans to travel Friday to another area hit by deadly flooding and landslides after the rains, Suga […]
by Loïc Vennin Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Since Impressionist artists first clapped eyes on woodblock prints, Japan has been a source of both inspiration and fascination for many in France, which Tokyo has picked for a mammoth cultural offensive. “There were other candidates, like Moscow or Spain, but it’s the French, more than any other nation, who know Japanese culture the best,” said Korehito Masuda, director of the “Japonismes 2018” program. From Gagaku imperial […]
(Eagle News) — Below are photos of the aftermath of a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that hit the province of Surigao City, Surigao del Norte on Wednesday, July 11. Photos by Jabes Juanite, Eagle News
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The known death toll from a four-month crackdown on anti-government protests in Nicaragua has risen to 264, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Wednesday. “As recorded by the IACHR since the start of the repression against social protests, to date, 264 people have lost their lives and more than 1,800 have been injured,” the commission’s chief Paulo Abrao told reporters. He was speaking at a meeting of the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The mission to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thai cave is to get the Hollywood treatment in a movie announced by faith-based production house Pure Flix. Managing partner Michael Scott, who lives in Thailand and was at the rescue site in Chiang Rai as the boys were being pulled to safety, made the announcement late Tuesday on Twitter. “I couldn’t be more excited. This story […]
