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According to Budget Secretary Butch Abad, 90% of the 2016 National Budget was already released to different government agencies. Abad added that the improvement on the budget release was due to the new treatment of the 2016 General Appropriation Act as a release document as well as the implementation of the pre-procurement activities. Because of this, government projects will be implemented before the election ban on March 25, 2016. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay […]
To show his determination regarding the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) at the resumption of the session of the House of Representatives on January 19, House Speaker Sonny Balmonte did not approved the motion of making a Plan B in the event of the non-passage of the BBL. Belmonte added that the House leadership is taking steps to ensure that there is a quorum so that there will be a quick progress on […]
Residents in the Iranian capital of Tehran have spoken out against the actions of Saudi Arabia as tensions between the two countries reached breaking point in the past few days. The rift between the two countries became inflamed after Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nemer al-Nemer along with 46 others over terrorism charges on January 2. This was followed by an attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran by protesters, leading to Saudi Arabia […]
About one hundred students from the National University of San Marcos, Peru’s oldest university in Lima, occupied one of the entrances of the academic institution on Monday (December 4) calling for the ejection of the university’s rector from his post. The students are demanding the full resignation of Pedro Cotillo, who by law, is being forced to abandon his position immediately. Cotillo has been found to be in violation of Peru’s “New University Law,” which […]
Fourteen people were killed and more than 30 injured in a bus fire on Tuesday morning in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, local authorities said. The accident happened at around 07:00, when Bus No. 301 caught fire near a furniture mall in Helan County, Yinchuan City. The injured have been sent to hospital for treatment. The fire was soon extinguished. Local police rushed to the scene, and were investigating the cause of the incident. […]
A white police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man after a South Carolina traffic stop was released from jail on $500,000 bail on Monday (January 4). Michael Slager, a North Charleston police officer who was fired after the incident, was jailed since his April arrest in the death of Walter Scott, 50. The fatal shooting was caught on video by a bystander and intensified a national debate on […]
Government troops regained full control of Yemen’s Aden port on Monday (January 4), after hours of fierce clashes with gunmen who stormed the facility a day earlier. The government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has been grappling with lawlessness in the southern port since militiamen, backed by a Saudi-led Arab alliance, drove the Iran-allied Houthis out in July. The clashes were concentrated around the cargo and container terminals in Aden, which the gunmen had sought […]
Saudi Arabia’s decision to break off diplomatic ties with Iran will not affect its own efforts to secure peace in Syria and Yemen, the kingdom’s ambassador to the United Nations, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, said on Monday (January 4). “From our side it will have no effect because it will continue to work very hard towards supporting the peace efforts in Syria, in Yemen, wherever there might be a need for that. How is that going to […]
The White House on Monday (January 4) urged Saudi Arabia and Iran to show restraint in the crisis spurred by the execution of a senior Shi’ite cleric by Saudi Arabia. “We do continue to be concerned about the need for both the Iranians and the Saudis to de-escalate the situation. We are urging all sides to show some restraint and to not further inflame tensions that are on quite vivid display in the region,” White […]
“My biggest dream is for our businesses, which started in Mindanao, to become global, and to find more ways to raise the demand for our products and services so as to increase the number of people we have given livelihood.” The noble statement is from Miss Helen Kaye Layco, a 26-year old young woman, an advocate of women empowerment, an innovative entrepreneur, and a former New Era University student. She won in the recently concluded […]
A fifth gunman was killed on Monday (January 4) as Indian security forces battled for the third day to clear out militants who attacked one of its air bases and killed seven soldiers. Twenty-two were wounded. The attack on the base in northern Pathankot city, which started before dawn on Saturday (January 2), is a rare targeting of an Indian military installation outside of the disputed Kashmir region. Major General Dushyant Singh from National Security […]
Britain’s first astronaut in 24 years sent a message from space to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Monday (January 4), saying he hoped his mission would inspire others to change the world. Former Apache military helicopter Tim Peake, 43, thanked the Queen for her message of best wishes which he received in December. He described looking down on the British Isles from space as incredible and said he hoped to demonstrate the strength of international collaboration. […]
