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PAGASA says shear line, easterlies affecting PHL

(Eagle News)–The shear line is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the easterlies are also affecting the rest of the country. As a result, Batanes, and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flashfloods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, meanwhile, will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with […]

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Gov’t eyeing increase in tourist arrivals

(Eagle News)–The Philippine government is eyeing a 10-fold increase in tourist arrivals from the original target set under the original Balikbayan program to become Asia’s tourism behemoth. “Ang ambisyon natin doon one million tourists. That was the ambition. One million tourists can come back. And then kasama na doon ‘yung mga overseas Filipinos..Now, we are targeting 10 times that,” President Bongbong Marcos said during the recent launch of the Tourist Rest Area (TRA) in Pagudpud, […]

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Philippines to buy 5 Japan-made coast guard ships in $400 mn deal

MANILA, May 17, 2024 (AFP) – The Philippines has agreed to buy five coast guard patrol ships from Japan in a deal worth more than $400 million, Manila said Friday, as the Southeast Asian country faces growing Chinese pressure in the South China Sea. Japan will loan the Philippines 64.38 billion yen ($413 million) to buy the five 97-metre Multi-Role Response Vessels and pay for the “development of the required support facilities”, the foreign ministry […]

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Putin in trade push on final day of China trip

BEIJING, May 17, 2024 (AFP) – Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in the northeastern city of Harbin on Friday, the final day of a visit aiming to promote crucial trade with China and win greater support for his war effort in Ukraine. Putin arrived Thursday on his first trip abroad since his March re-election, meeting President Xi Jinping for talks in which the leaders framed their nations’ ties as a stabilising force in a chaotic […]

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N. Korea fires at least one ‘unidentified ballistic missile’: Seoul

SEOUL, May 17, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea has fired at least one “unidentified ballistic missile”, Seoul’s military said Friday, hours after leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister denied widespread allegations that Pyongyang is shipping weapons to Russia. North Korea “fires unidentified ballistic missile toward East Sea”, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan. Japanese broadcaster NHK, citing government sources, said the missile […]

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French police kill Algerian trying to set fire to synagogue

ROUEN, France  (AFP) – French police on Friday shot dead an Algerian man armed with a knife and an iron bar who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen, adding to concerns over anti-Semitic violence in the country. The French Jewish community, the third largest in the world, has for months been on edge in the face of a growing number of attacks and desecrations of memorials. Emergency services […]

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PBBM to military: Develop skills to combat new forms of warfare

(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos on Thursday, May 16, called on the Armed Forces of the Philippines to develop the skills needed to fight new forms of warfare, particularly in the digital space. “Times are changing and we are facing new threats now to our nation’s security. The battlefield is changing, it will go beyond traditional warfighting as we have known it,” President Marcos said in his visit to Camp Edilberto Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro […]

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PAGASA says shear line affecting extreme N. Luzon

Rest of country affected by easterlies (Eagle News)–The shear line is affecting extreme Northern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the easterlies are also affecting the rest of the country. As a result, Batanes, Cagayan, and Isabela will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Flashfloods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. Meanwhile, Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have […]

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NEDA Board approves zero tariff policy for two-wheeled EVs, hybrid vehicles, others

(Eagle News)–The National Economic Development Authority Board has approved the reduction of tariffs imposed on e-motorcycles, e-bicycles and nickel metal hydride accumulators to zero until 2028. Also covered by the zero tariff policy are e-tricycles and quadricycles, hybrid EVs and plug-in hybrid EV (PHEV) jeepneys or buses. The NEDA Board, in its 16th meeting on Wednesday, May 15, also agreed to maintain the Most Favored Nation rate at zero for duty on 34 tariff lines […]

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Art market rebounds despite challenges, with Monet at $34.8 million and Basquiat works surpassing $46 million

  NEW YORK, May 16, 2024 (AFP) – A Monet sold for nearly $35 million at auction Wednesday evening, Sotheby’s said, marking a solid start to New York’s spring art sales. Both Sotheby’s and rival auction house Christie’s launched their spring season Monday. Though the global art market softened last year, strong sales in London and Paris have sparked optimism for 2024. Claude Monet’s “Meules a Giverny,” which the French impressionist painted in 1893, went […]

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China and Russia present united front as stabilizing force

By James EDGAR, Oliver HOTHAM BEIJING, May 16, 2024 (AFP) – Leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin framed their nations’ ties as a stabilising force in a chaotic world as they met Thursday in Beijing, where the Russian president is seeking greater Chinese support for his war effort in Ukraine and isolated economy. It is Putin’s first trip abroad since his March re-election and the second in just over six months to China, an economic […]

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Slovak PM fights for his life after assassination attempt

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia, May 16, 2024 (AFP) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico fought for his life in hospital Wednesday after being shot multiple times in what the government called a “political assault”. Surgeons spent hours battling to save the 59-year-old populist leader after the attack, which has been condemned around the world. Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba told the BBC he believed the leader’s hospital procedure had gone well. “I guess in the end […]

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