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JUNE 23 (Eagle News) — The mayor of Rosario, Cavite suspended classes at all levels due to strong rains. Said municipality is near the sea and most students have to take a boat ride to attend school. (Rosario, Cavite) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines, June 23 (Eagle News) — According to Labor Secretary Rosalina Baldoz, the public should give accurate information in the upcoming Population Census 2015, since the information gleaned from said census will be used by the government to formulate the appropriate plans to help the unemployed. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/H3u9SGSmbNQ
MANILA, Philippines, June 23 (Eagle News) — According to Senator Sonny Angara, the resignation of Vice-President Jejomar Binay from President Benigno S. Aquino’s Cabinet is expected since the election is already near. On the other hand, Senator Antonio Trillanes said that this is a welcome development because now the Aquino government can now fully criticize the Vice President. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines, June 23 (Eagle News) – According to the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, the Philippines will once again host the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3×3 World Tour this coming August 1 and 2. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines, June 23 (Eagle News) — Parents and teachers of students of the Manila Science High School will ask the Supreme Court to allow its Grade 10 students to take the college entrance exams since protests against the K-to-12 program is still pending. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
JUNE 23 (Reuters) — Typhoon Kujira landed in south China’s island province of Hainan Monday evening, bringing heavy rain to the drought-hit island. The storm landed in the coastal city of Wanning at 18:50 Monday, packing winds of up to 90 kilometers per hour, said the Hainan Meteorological Service. Kujira weakened into a tropical storm about one hour after its landing in Hainan. It moved northwestward at a speed of 15 km per hour. It […]
(Reuters) Hundreds of revellers descended on one of Tunis’s main streets to watch musicians take to the stage as part of World Music Day, also known as Fête de la musique. The event on Sunday (June 21) marks the first day of Summer and the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The wide Habib Bourguiba Avenue avenue was cleared of traffic allowing people to soak up the atmosphere and dance the night […]
(Reuters) Sydney is deploying a high-tech system that literally sniffs out vandals on its rail network. The CEO of Sydney Trains, Howard Collins, calls the new system Mousetrap. “So our new operation, Mousetrap, is what it says it does. It detects, covertly, people vandalising our trains,” he said. When a graffiti attack is taking place, a sensor in the carriage acts like an electronic nose, detecting the presence of paint fumes. An alarm is sent […]
(Reuters) A group of men wearing mudded khaki pants and rubber boots are digging into hard clay with their shovels at the bottom of a pit in Russia’s Kaliningrad region some 1200 km (750 miles) west of Moscow. The men are searching for amber – 50-million-year-old fossilized tree resin. Kaliningrad region, enclaved between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea shore, is home for 90 percent of world’s amber deposits and some of them lay just […]
JUNE 23 (Reuters) — South Korea’s health ministry reported three new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Tuesday (June 23), taking the total to 175 in an outbreak that is still the largest outside Saudi Arabia but which is seen to have leveled off. “As of now, the total number of confirmed MERS cases is 175. Total 94 patients are undergoing treatment, 54 people have been discharged from hospital and 27 people have […]
QUEZON CITY, June 23 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Bicol Region has prepositioned, as of June 17, some 5,000 family food packs to the Provincial Government of Sorsogon to augment its relief resources for families affected by the eruption of Mt. Bulusan. At the same time, DSWD also prepositioned 300 family food packs each to the towns of Irosin, Casiguran, and Juban, Sorsogon which are the most affected by […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 23) – It is a common sight these days. People walking around, headphones or earphones on, without a care in the world. Besides the obvious accident waiting to happen – not hearing an incoming vehicle – wearing earphones or headphones have a detrimental effect on our hearing, specially if improperly used. Imagine blasting loud music directly to your eardrums. Now, it isn’t too hard to conclude that this […]
