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Create and Innovate: Essence of Switzerland Art Competition

MANILA –  Switzerland, apart from being the land of mountains, cheese and chocolate, remains the most innovative country in the world and ranks first in the Global Innovation Index (GII) in a row. Switzerland excels especially in knowledge and technology and ranks second in creative output. The Swiss Embassy, in partnership with Swatch Philippines, and with sponsorship from Swiss Cultural Fund-Philippines and Etihad Airways is hoping to inspire Filipinos to be creative and innovative by presenting the Create and Innovate: […]

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Robert De Niro opens luxury hotel in Manila

MAY 19 (Reuters) — Hollywood actor Robert De Niro and Japanese Chef Nobu Matsuhisa opened luxury hotel Nobu in a 1.3 billion USD gambling complex Manila on Monday (May 18). The Nobu Hotel is one of the three hotels being built in the Manila-based City of Dreams casino-resort, a joint venture of Melco Crown and local leisure firm Belle Corp, which features a posh night club and a Hollywood-style theme park. Co-owners Matsuhisa and de […]

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What is in Alaminos, Pangasinan?

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, May 19) – Can anyone guess what we can find in Alaminos, Pangasinan? This city is the site of one of the most famous landmarks in the Philippines. The Hundred Islands! Every school child knows what the Hundred Islands is. The name is actually a misnomer because the islands number 124 during low tide and 123 during high tide. Of said islands, only three were developed for tourism: Governor Island, […]

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WHO sets up $100 million fund to deal with future crises like Ebola

MAY 19 (Reuters) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (May 18) it never wants to be caught unprepared again after the onslaught of the Ebola virus with the director general admitting in Geneva that “the buck stops with me”. The WHO and its Director General Margaret Chan have come under fire for being slow to respond to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic. The virus hit Guinea first in December 2013 but it was […]

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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth visits the Chelsea Flower Show

MAY 19 (Reuters) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth attended the launch of the annual Chelsea Flower Show in London on Monday (May 18), where the finest horticulturists from all over the world exhibit their meticulously designed gardens. The Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh were joined at the lavish flower show by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as well as Prince Harry. She was shown around various gardens by officials and watched the […]

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Police dog nabs suspect in shed

MAY 19 (Reuters) — A K-9 police dog in Southern California sniffed out a suspect from his hiding place inside a backyard shed and wrestled with the man until he was taken into custody on Monday (May 18). Police from Azusa, east of Los Angeles, had been in pursuit of the suspect on foot when he slipped into the yard of a residential home in the area. Earlier, police were in a pursuit of three […]

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DOLE warns employers against engaging fly-by-night subcontractors

MANILA, May 19 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) warned employers anew against engaging fly-by-night, or non-DOLE registered subcontractors, saying it has consequences for their businesses. “Employers owe it to our workers not to engage contractors or sub-contractors not registered with the DOLE under D.O. 18-A. Sooner or later, employers will be at the receiving end of the dire consequences of their action,” DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said in a statement. Baldoz particularly warned […]

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PHIVOLCS launches Valley Fault System Atlas for Earthquake Preparedness

QUEZON CITY, May 19—The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) launched its handbook on earthquake preparedness entitled “The Valley Fault System in Greater Metro Manila Area Atlas” on May 18 at the Phivolcs Bldg., in UP Diliman, Quezon City. The handbook contains large scale maps detailing areas traversed by the valley fault system (VFS). Copies of the handbook were distributed to local government officials, especially Metro Manila along with the provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, […]

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Obama gets his own account on Twitter, a million immediately follows

AFTER six years in office, US President Barack Obama sent his first ever tweet from his very own account on Twitter on Monday (May 18), quickly amassing a million followers in five hours, according to Reuters, in the latest of many White House efforts to amplify his message with social media. “Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account,” Obama tweeted from his verified @POTUS account, which had more than […]

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DepEd jumpstarts nationwide Brigada Eskwela program

MAY 19 (Eagle News) — The  Department of Education (DepEd) jumpstarted this year’s Brigada Eskwela on Monday, May 18, at Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte, simultaneous with all the public schools in the country. This year’s Brigada Eskwela theme is “Tayo Para sa Kalinisan, Kaligtasan at Kahandaan ng ating mga Paaralan”. The week-long school maintenance practice aims to prepare schools for the coming school year and to promote volunteerism among the members of the community. […]

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Malacanang says Phl gov’t ready to help runaway Asian migrants

MAY 19 (Eagle News) — Malacanang has assured that the Philippine government will assist Asian migrants who will reach the country’s ports in solidarity with the United Nations convention relating to refugees. Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. issued the statement Monday saying that the Philippine government will help address the plight of runaway Asian migrants, known as ‘boat people’, in accordance with its commitment to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Coloma […]

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Kerry calls for U.S. soldiers in South Korea to prepare for “every eventuality”

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday (May 18) asked American troops stationed in South Korea to prepare for possible provocation from North Korea. Kerry visited Yongsan Garrison in Seoul and delivered a speech to some of the U.S soldiers stationed there. “Here, particular in this part of the world, as we see (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un engaging in these extraordinary provocative activities, building nuclear weapons against all of the UN […]

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