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Underwater robot to raise ocean awareness

It started off as a treasure hunt. Sifting through a magazine from the 1970’s, Eric Stackpole pointed out an article to David Lang that hinted at the location of a pile of gold that has been missing for more than 100 years. “There was this story that there was a robbery and gold was thrown to the bottom of this underwater cave and all of these treasure hunters and scuba divers, no one was able […]

DepEd to subsidize Senior High School fees through voucher program

The Department of Education (DepEd) will be subsidizing fees of Grade 10 completers from public and private Junior High Schools (JHS) who want to enroll in a (1) private high school, (2) private university or college, (3) state or local university or college, or (4) technical-vocational school, which will offer Senior High School (SHS) starting SY 2016-2017. The detailed guidelines on the implementation of the SHS Voucher Program (VP) through DepEd Order 46, s. 2015 states […]

World-renowned nutrition expert in Manila, cites solutions to curb growing number of obese, overweight and aging Filipinos

  By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News online correspondent   The Philippines is now in the early stage of global nutrition transition as 29% of its population is already classified as “obese and overweight.” This was the assessment of one of the world’s top endocrinologists and nutrition experts, Dr. David Heber, who has also pointed out that the United States is now the country with the most obese people. Heber was at the Manila Hotel last […]

Minister says quake death toll in Pakistan at least 200

The regional information minister of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtukhwa (KPK) province said on Tuesday (October 27) that at least 200 people had been killed and more than 2,000 injured in an earthquake which hit remote mountainous regions of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday (October 26). Information Minister Shah Farman was talking to reporters late on Tuesday outside the Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, where dozens of people injured in the quake are being treated. “Tentatively, […]

Angry China shadows U.S. warship near man-made islands

A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed close to one of China’s man-made islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday (October 27), drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest. The USS Lassen’s patrol was the most significant U.S. challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China claims around artificial islands it has built up in the Spratly archipelago as Beijing […]

China warns U.S. “not to make trouble out of nothing” on South China Sea issue

Chinese Foreign Minister Want Yi warned the United States “not to make trouble out of nothing” in response to U.S Navy’s plan to send a destroyer to the South China Sea. A U.S defense official said the U.S. Navy plans to send a destroyer within 12 miles of China’s island in the South China Sea within the next 24 hours, according to the Cable News Network. Wang, who is attending a China-Japan-South Korea seminar in […]

Senator Miriam Santiago hits corrupt government officials

Presidential candidate, sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago hit corrupt government officials and vowed to end corruption during a “meet and greet” with her supporters at the University of the Philippines Bahay ng Alumni in Diliman, Quezon City. Santiago stressed that she has conquered her stage-four lung cancer and decided to seek the presidency one more time. She earlier confirmed that Sen. “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., will be her running mate in the 2016 elections. (Eagle News Service)

Macau holds successful screening of “Felix Manalo” movie

The Philippines ‘ box office hit bio-film movie “Felix Manalo” hit the screen in Algeria Cinema at  10 o’ clock in the morning and also in Brito theater at 8 o’clock  on Oct 25, 2015. Many people are waiting for the cinema open. Hundreds of Filipinos together with their friends lined up to watch their most awaited biopic film movie “ Felix Manalo” in two different venues here in the heart of Macau. After the […]

National Corn Congress, isinagawa

Isinagawa ang ika-11th Philippine National Corn Congress sa Fontana Leisure & Parks Convention Center, Clark, Pampanga, noong Oktubre 21, 2015. Ang pagtitipon ay may temang “Moving toward Enhancing Competiveness” at “Philippine Corn towards ASEAN Integration.

World’s most valuable biscuit worth $23, 000

The last cracker from the infamous ship “Titanic” was auctioned in an auction house in England and was sold for the amount of $23, 000 to a Greek collector. As such, it was held to be the world’s most valuable biscuit. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)