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Thousands of people lined Singapore’s streets on Wednesday (March 25) as a gun carriage took the casket of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, to Parliament House for public viewing. Lee died on Monday (March 23), aged 91. Chants of “Lee Kuan Yew” rang out from the crowd as the carriage entered the colonnaded Parliament House in the heart of the city-state’s business district, where his body will lie in state until […]
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has claimed that its actions against the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces (PNP-SAF) were justified as the MILF combatants only fought back after they had been fired upon. In a 35-page report submitted to the Senate on Tuesday, the MILF said the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces initially did not know that the forces that entered their territory were government troops. The MILF blamed the absence of prior coordination […]
By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:13pm EDT (Reuters) – French investigators will sift through wreckage on Wednesday for clues into why a German Airbus ploughed into an Alpine mountainside, killing all 150 people on board including 16 schoolchildren returning from an exchange trip to Spain. The A320 jet operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline was obliterated when it went down in a rugged area of ravines on Tuesday while flying over […]
MANILA, PIA – The Philippine Embassy in Beijing reminds our kababayans that it is illegal for Filipinos to work in mainland China as nannies, household workers or as private tutors. Foreigners cannot be employed as household workers in mainland China as it is against Chinese laws. Extreme caution must be exercised when dealing with agents in the Philippines who offer employment in mainland China as a nanny, household worker or private tutor. It is advisable not to accept […]
A bus fell through a large crater that had formed in a road in northern Brazil and was suddenly carried away by rushing flood water on Monday (March 23). The passengers of the bus were able to escape the doomed bus before it was swallowed up by the massive hole and nobody was hurt. Several of the passengers managed to film the incident and their images were circulating on social media in Brazil. The accident […]
The San Diego Zoo on Tuesday (March 24) announced the birth of a hippopotamus and, so far, things appear to be going swimmingly. The birth of the hippo took place around 6:30 AM Monday (March 23). The sex of the animal is yet to be determined. Animal keepers are keeping a close eye on the mother and calf, which appears to be nursing and doing well. The mother, 30-year-old Funani, also gave birth last year, […]
Hope was in the air in Baghdad city over the weekend as hundreds of colorful lanterns were released into the sky signaling Iraqis’ wishes for peace and stability in the country. Flying sky lanterns that decorated the evening sky on Saturday (March 21), more than three thousand young men and women flocked to a festival organized by the young group ‘Anummaki’. The festival aimed to signal a sign of support for more than 20,000 troops […]
British army bomb disposal experts were on Tuesday (March 24) working to make safe a massive unexploded World War Two bomb discovered on a central London building site, police said. The 1000 lb (454 kilos) explosive measured five feet (1.5 meters) long and had a tail fin was discovered during construction work on Monday (March 23). Over a thousand residents were evacuated from within a 200-metre safety cordon around the Bermondsey site, with many offered […]
A 20-foot deep sinkhole forced the evacuation on Tuesday (March 24) of four New Jersey homes after crumbling part of a roadway and swallowing up a car, police said. An underground water main break likely caused the hole to form suddenly in a residential area of South Amboy, New Jersey, a city about 20 miles south of Newark, the South Amboy Police Department said in a statement. There were no reported injuries and no homes […]
The Israel Embassy in Manila, in partnership with the President Elpidio Quirino Foundation, celebrated the “Good Deeds Day” at Quirino High School in Quezon City, on March 24,Tuesday. Ambassador Effie Ben Matityau noted that the event marks the beginning of the Embassy’s partnership with the Quirino Foundation. “Education is the foundation of change. We are developing a very special program to create capacity-building and excellence in education,” the Ambassador said. The Embassy donated […]
Spokesmen for Duesseldorf airport and for Lufthansa said on Tuesday (March 24) that it was a “black day” German air traffic after an Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline crashed in a remote snowy area of the French Alps on Tuesday and all 150 on board were feared dead. Germanwings confirmed its flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf crashed in the French Alps with 144 passengers and six crew members on board. Officials said […]
MANILA, PIA – The Department of Health (DOH) reported that the Philippines is now one of the seven among the 22 high-burdened countries that have achieved its 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in fighting tuberculosis (TB) as early as 2012. The other six countries were Brazil, Cambodia, China, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, and Vietnam. Secretary of Health Janette P. Loreto-Garin disclosed that there has been a marked decline in TB burden since the launching […]
