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MANILA, Sep. 21 — Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles showed her typical strong resolve and proclaimed that she, together with the proponents of the peace process, were not giving up on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and that the Bangsamoro aspiration for genuine autonomy and self-determination is within grasp. “For the sake of those communities and especially their children, we dare not give up now. After all […]
Jackie Collins, the best-selling author of dozens of steamy novels who depicted the boardrooms and bedrooms of Hollywood’s power crowd, died on Saturday (September 19) of breast cancer at age 77, her family said. The British-born Collins, younger sister of actress Joan Collins, died in Los Angeles, said her spokeswoman Melody Korenbrot. “It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who […]
A race in the Philippines on Saturday (September 19) gave participants a taste of what it’s like to be in a street protest with mobs, barricades and riot police. Hundreds of participants ran along a two kilometer field of a state university in Manila, climbing over wooden barricades, crawling under barbed wire and crossing muddy slopes while attempting to dodge mobs of mock policemen and rioters in a protest-inspired race. Smoke machines and water cannons […]
(Reuters) – Japan pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history on Saturday, defeating two-time World Cup champions South Africa 34-32 in a ferocious encounter at Brighton Community Stadium. Replacement Karne Hesketh raced in at the corner in the 84th minute to snatch victory from a pulsating contest in the Pool B opener. Ferocious tacking from Japan kept them within two points of the Springboks at halftime after driving mauls brought tries […]
Malacanang said it is elated over the Philippines’ ranking in the 2015 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Global Innovation Index (GII) leapfrogging by 17 notches to 83rd from last year’s 100th. This is the country’s best performance so far in the GII in the last five years. “We welcome the positive news that the Philippines has moved up 17 notches in the 2015 Global Innovation Index (GII),” Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a radio […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has expressed confidence in the investigation of the Philippine National Police into the “lumad” killings. At the same time, it said that the government will continue to address the needs of the Lumads in Mindanao. Cpt. Joe Martinez, spokesman of the Army’s 4th Division had earlier announced the creation of a task force that will probe and rin after those responsible for the deaths of three Lumad or indigenous people’s leaders […]
(Reuters) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday (September 19) as he tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence. Sisi named former head of the state oil company Tarek al-Mullah as petroleum minister, charged with easing the country’s energy crisis and attracting more foreign investment in a strategic sector. Mullah succeeds Sherif Ismail, seen as one of the best-performing […]
(Courtesy CCTV) — China is willing to work with ASEAN to push forward an upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and enhance production capacity cooperation with ASEAN, Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said on Friday. Zhang made the comments at the opening ceremony of the 12th China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. “The world political and economic structure is in process of profound reform. China and ASEAN have to strengthen […]
(Reuters) The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea on Friday (September 18) issued new reports on the expansion of female prison camps in North Korea. There have long been concerns about reports of atrocities including executions and torture, but they have largely been overshadowed by international alarm about North Korea’s nuclear weapons. Held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., presenter David Hawk and author of Hidden Gulag IV: Gender Repression and Prisoner Disappearances, told […]
(Reuters) Japan’s parliament voted into law on Saturday (September 19) a defence policy shift that could let troops fight overseas for the first time since 1945, a milestone in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to loosen the limits of the pacifist constitution on the military. Abe says the shift, the biggest change in Japan’s defence policy since the creation of its post-war military in 1954, is vital to meet new challenges such as from a […]
(Reuters) Massachusetts officials on Friday (September 18) announced they have identified the young girl whose body was found stuffed in a trash bag on a beach in Boston Harbor last June, and they have arrested two people in connection with her death. At a press conference in Boston, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said, after months of work, officers were able to identify the toddler whose imagined picture had captivated people across the country. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (September 18) – Having a career always comes with great responsibilities, sleepless nights, overtime work, hardcore activities and a lot of deadlines that might have burned all of your eyebrow hair into ashes. Yes, you might complete and successfully comply with every tasks that you have however, focusing too much on your work will eventually make you feel unhappy and stressful. But since one of your major investments in your career is your […]
