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MANILA, March 8 – The Department of Health is closely coordinating with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC) for the profile of the patient confirmed to have Zika virus, and the places she visited in the Philippines. “We were informed that shortly after returning home to the US, an evidence of Zika virus infection was detected from the patient,” Health Secretary Janette P. Loreto-Garin said. The Department of Health disclosed a report […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will host the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in September, the ABC television network announced on Monday. Television’s version of the Oscars rotates among the four major broadcasters — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — and Kimmel presented once before, when it was last aired on ABC in 2012. “I am excited to be hosting the Emmys again. I have a feeling I’m […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Bangladesh’s central bank said Monday that part of almost $100 million allegedly stolen from a reserve account in the United States last month has been recovered. Suspected Chinese hackers stole the money from the foreign exchange account in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on February 5, according to a central bank official and media reports. Some of the money was then illegally transferred online to the Philippines and Sri […]
(Eagle News) – Expelled Iglesia Ni Cristo member Lowell Menorca II and his family have been spotted in Ho Chi Minh Airport in Vietnam, contrary to reports being disseminated now by his lawyer, Atty. Trixie Angeles, that Menorca was nowhere to be found. Menorca and his wife, Jinky Seiko Otsuka Menorca, and daughter, were seen Sunday night at the airport boarding a flight for Vietnam. They left Manila around 10:45 Sunday night, and […]
QUEZON City, Philippines — Posibleng ideklara na ng Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) ang onset ng dry o summer season sa bansa. Ayon kay Anthony Lucero, chief ng Climate Monitoring and Prediction Section ng Pagasa, ramdam na ang mainit na panahon at lalo pa itong titindi sa mga susunod na araw dahil ang peak ng dry season sa bansa ay tuwing buwan ng Abril. Nagpapalala rin aniya sa dry season ang epekto ng […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — A suicide bomber killed 13 people and injured 23 in northwest Pakistan Monday, in an attack which the Taliban said was revenge for the hanging of an Islamist assassin last week. The bomber attacked as lawyers and litigants were arriving at a court complex during the morning rush hour in the town of Shabqadar. Senior police official Fayaz Khan said 13 people had been killed and 23 wounded after the bomber […]
MANILa, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nasa Vietnam na ang natiwalag na miyembro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo na si Lowell Menorca II. Kinumpira ito ng Bureau of Immigration taliwas sa sinabi ni Attorney Trixie Angeles, abugado ni Menorca na nawawala at hindi nya macontact ang kaniyang kliyente. Ngayong araw sana ang gagawing cross examination ng mga abugado ng INC para kay Menorca sa Court of Appelas subalit lumabas na pala ng bansa. Sa isinagawang news conference, […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) — Six people were wounded Monday when a laptop bomb exploded at an airport in Somalia, police said, the second such attack in recent weeks targeting passenger aircraft. The bomb exploded at a checkpoint in the small central town of Beledweyne, some 325 kilometers (200 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu, where last month Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents claimed responsibility for a bomb attack which ripped a hole in a passenger plane shortly […]
by Laurent BARTHELEMY BEIJING, China (AFP) — Ray Tomlinson, the US programmer credited with inventing email in the 1970s and choosing the “@” symbol for the messaging system, died at the age of 74, his employer said Sunday. Tomlinson invented direct electronic messages in 1971. Before his invention, users could only write messages to others on a limited network. “A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days […]
QUEZON City, Philippines — The partial solar and penumbral lunar eclipses will be witnessed this month. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the penumbral eclipse will be eight percent visible from the parts of Mindanao on Wednesday, March 9.
MANILA, Philippines — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) warned that many graduates this year will find difficulty in getting a job or will end up unemployed. According to the group, this job-skills mismatch crisis is due to a growing mismatch between their training and the job skill.
THE death of former US first lady Nancy Reagan sparked an outpouring condolences from around the world. The announcement was made by Joanne Drake, a spokeswoman of Nancy Reagan. According to her the first lady died due to congestive heart failure at her home in Los Angeles and will be buried next to her husband at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. https://youtu.be/fcks-CMBsJA
