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MANILA, Philippines – Former Commission on Elections Sixto Brillantes said that election preparations should be left to the COMELEC and that the Supreme Court should just let the COMELEC decide election matters. Brillantes also criticized its decision regarding the issuance of voting receipts. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/_RMPnElOKGM
MANILA, Philippines (Reuters) — The Philippine military said on Friday (March 11) they will not negotiate with the Islamist militants who abducted two Canadians, a Norwegian, and a Filipino woman. A video posted on a Facebook page linked to Philippine Islamists showed the hostages appealing for their governments to accept the demands of the militants and were given a one month deadline or face execution. The four were kidnapped from a beach resort on […]
by Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere VATICAN City (AFP) — Many words, little action: three years after Pope Francis’s election, victims of priest sex abuse are bitter and disappointed, accusing the Church of having failed to punish guilty clerics and end a culture of complacency on the issue. The recent Australian Royal Commission hearings of Vatican number three George Pell and a preliminary criminal probe into accusations that Lyon’s archbishop, Philippe Barbarin, covered up for a paedophile […]
by Peter MARTELL Nairobi, Kenya (AFP) — The many ways people have died during South Sudan’s two-year civil war are well-documented, but the number killed is unknown. Men, women and children have been shot, speared, burned, castrated, hung, drowned, run over, suffocated, starved and blown up, their corpses abandoned where they fell, bulldozed into mass graves or, in at least one case, eaten in ritual cannibalism. But the UN has stuck to a guesstimate of 10,000 […]
MANILA, March 11 — Growth in the manufacturing sector started strong in 2016 as production of chemical products and food manufactures expanded in January, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). In the Philippine Statistics Authority’s Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries for January 2016, the Volume of Production Index (VoPI) grew by 34.3 percent, nearly seven times more than its growth rate of 5.0 percent in December 2015. Moreover, the Value of […]
MANILA, March 11 – There is no reason for the members and other stakeholders to worry about PhilHealth’s capacity to meet its obligations, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) chief said as he denied a report which claimed the state firm’s funds will run out in months. In a statement, Alex Padilla, president and chief executive of PhilHealth, said, “We would like to clarify some news reports that came out today (March 10) that […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets mostly fell early Friday after the head of the European Central Bank suggested its latest rate cut could be its last, stoking fears over the limitations of finance chiefs to drag the global economy out of its torpor. The ECB on Thursday announced a cut in its deposit rate further into negative territory as part of a series of stimulus measures that also included a ramping up of its huge […]
REUTERS — Iconic Marvel Comics character Spider-Man has made his first appearance in the larger Marvel comic book universe in the second trailer for the upcoming “Captain America: Civil War”. In February 2015, Sony Pictures, who hold the cinematic rights to the web-slinging superhero, and Marvel Studios reached an agreement for the character to appear in the Walt Disney Avengers franchise as well as a 2017 stand-alone movie under Sony. In June of 2015, Marvel […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (Reuters) — A new pier at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport will open fully just a month before the start of the Olympic Games, authorities said on Thursday (March 10), after a series of setbacks. The new Southern pier at the Tom Jobim airport, otherwise known as Galeao, was initially set to be completed by April, authorities responsible for the developments said in November. The 2-billion-real (500-million-U.S.-dollar) project to expand the […]
KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) — Democrat Bernie Sanders on Thursday (March 10) called on his supporters to turn out in large numbers for next week’s primary, during a campaign stop in Kissimmee, Florida. “I believe that if there is a large voter turnout, if you come out, and your friends and family and neighbors come out, we are going to win here in Florida,” Sanders said. The U.S. senator credited his surprise victory in Michigan […]
TOKYO, Japan (CCTV) — Japan is making plans to totally revitalize the country’s northeast within the next five year, after the region suffered from an earthquake-triggered tsunami in 2011. Takagi Tsuyoshi, the country’s minister for reconstruction, made the pledge during an interview early March. It has been five years since the tsunami knocked out the key cooling functions at the Daiichi nuclear power complex, causing multiple meltdowns in its reactors and leading to the worst […]
PRESIDENT Aquino attended on Thursday the 37th Philippine National Police Academy commencement exercises appealing to the new graduates to shun corruption especially with the upcoming May election. In his speech during the event, the President said uniformed personnel will once again face the temptation in the coming election and asked the graduates to do what is right. “Uulitin ko ang hamon ko sa bawat pagkakataong humaharap ako sa mga guma-graduate tulad ninyo: Kung abutan kayo […]
