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MAKATI City, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is asking the public to consider taking rescue training as PHIVOLCS issued a detailed map showing the West and East Valley Fault lines, both of which may cause strong earthquakes. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — After an 12-hour long session, the section-by-section voting of the draft of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) by the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee. The Committee allowed 32 amendments on the 18-article proposed law. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
VALENZUELA City, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police (PNP) placed three welders of the Kentex Manufacturing Corporation into protective custody after said welders asked for police assistance after receiving death threats. The PNP is considering the three welders as “vital witnesses.” (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) urged colleges and universities to create student assistance funds to help students in need of financial assistance in face of the CHED’s approval of tuition fee increase of over 300 colleges and universities. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — Various groups from the public transportation sector are forming an alliance to ask for an exemption of public utility vehicles (PUV’s) from the coding scheme, saying that their inclusion to the said scheme causes a shortage of public transportation, especially during rush hour. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — The House Committee on Energy, Committee on Government Enterprises and Privatization and Committee on Mindanao Affairs approved the bill proposing the formation of the Mindanao Power Corporation. Said corporation aims to guarantee the stable supply of energy in the said region, which will assure the development of Mindanao. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is ready to step in and do its part to help resolve the problem of port congestion, with the said organization offering the use of their warehouses for the temporary storage of container vans. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines, May 20 (Eagle News) — The Climate Change Commission is looking towards Germany for additional funding for the Commission’s projects. The said commission submitted proposals to the said country. Germany already gave Php 750 million for said projects and is open to the idea of giving additional funding. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, May 20 — Given an overview of the Bangsamoro Development Plan, business leaders on Monday agreed that now, more than ever, is the time for the private sector to create a stronger presence in the region. Businessman Manny V. Pangilinan, chairman of the Philippines Business for Social Progress (PBSP) called it an investment for peace. Jaime Zobel de Ayala II, head of the economic cluster of the National Peace Summit, described it as an […]
MAY 20 (PCOO) — Boracay Island is now the Philippines’ new cruise ship destination, apart from being one of the best beaches in the world. “We received nine cruise ship visits last year. Of the figure, four were maiden voyages from the world’s most luxurious cruise liners,” Aklan Governor Joeben Miraflores boasted during the international conference on enhancing tourism competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region held here Tuesday. This year, 12 cruise ship […]
MAY 20 (Reuters) — Guinea and Sierra Leone reported 35 new Ebola cases in the past week, four times as many as the week before, in a reminder that the virus will not go quietly, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday (May 19). “Our objective is: get to zero, maintain zero and early recovery of essential health services,” WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told Tuesday’s two-hour briefing at the United Nations. “The […]
MAY 20 (Reuters) — The last intact section of one of Antarctica’s mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate completely in the next few years, contributing further to rising sea levels, according to a NASA study released on Thursday (May 14). The research focused on a remnant of the so-called Larsen B Ice Shelf, which has existed for at least 10,000 years but partially collapsed in 2002. What is left covers about […]
