(Reuters) – It is an unlikely friendship that ties the fates of war correspondent Kenji Goto and troubled loner Haruna Yukawa, the two Japanese hostages for which Islamic State militants demanded a $200 million ransom this week. Yukawa was captured in August outside Aleppo. Goto, who had returned to Syria in late October to try to help his friend, had been missing since then. For Yukawa, who dreamed of becoming a military contractor, traveling to […]
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Iglesia Ni Cristo to inaugurate housing and livelihood projects for Yolanda survivors
(Eagle News Service) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo is scheduled to inaugurate tomorrow, January 23, its housing and livelihood projects for survivors of typhoon Yolanda in Alangalang, Leyte, a few kilometers from Tacloban City. Barely 10 months since the groundbreaking of Sitio New Era, envisioned as a model community nestled on top of a mountain aptly called barangay Langit, it now has some 500 concrete housing units completed and ready for occupancy. Another 500 housing […]
Cebu Pacific offers apology while House investigation continues
Despite the apology offered by the Cebu Pacific President and CEO Lance Gokongwei, the House Committeee on Transportation will push through with its investigation regarding said airlines alleged poor service during the past holiday season.
Republicans will not bow down to Obama
In Washington, the Republicans have no plans to offer full support to President Barack Obama’s policies, saying that they may support some aspects of it but not all.
French Special Envoy for the environment arrives in Manila, affirms French support for Typhoon Yolanda victims
The Special Envoy of the President of the French Republic for the Protection of the Planet, Nicolas Hulot, arrived in the Philippines on January 20, Tuesday, to start his 5-day visit to the country. On Wednesday, he met with Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario. He is also set to meet with Climate Change Commissioner Lucille Sering and Senate Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources Chairperson Sen. Loren Legarda on Thursday and with Secretary Ramon […]
UK warns citizens against Philippine taxis
The United Kingdom issued a travel advisory to British nationals in the Philippines reminding them that it is dangerous to ride taxis in the Philippines due to several criminal incidents involving said mode of transportation.
VP Binay earns 200M from land deal
According to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Vice President Jejomar Binay earned 200 million pesos in commission from the land deal of Alpha Land and the Boys Scouts of the Philippines.
Barangay resolution banning online game becomes viral
Viral in the social media is the Barangay Resolution in Cavite banning the online game “Defense of the Ancients” in computer shops.
Poroshenko: Russia has 9,000 troops in Ukraine
BY DMITRY ZHDANNIKOV AND NOAH BARKIN DAVOS, Switzerland Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:08pm EST Ukrainian servicemen fire their weapons during fighting with pro-Russian separatists in Pesky village, near Donetsk January 21, 2015. CREDIT: REUTERS/OLEKSANDR KLYMENKO (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Wednesday of sending 9,000 troops to back separatist rebels in the east of his country, and the IMF chief said she backed extra financial help for Kiev as the conflict inflicts severe […]
ECB to decide on bond-buying plan for reviving euro zone economy
BY PAUL CARREL AND JOHN O’DONNELL FRANKFURT Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:11pm EST The new European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters is pictured in Frankfurt January 21, 2015. CREDIT: REUTERS/KAI PFAFFENBACH (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is poised to announce a plan on Thursday to buy government bonds, resorting to its last big policy tool for breathing life into the flagging euro zone economy and fending off deflation. Market expectations are sky-high for the ECB […]
Japanese NGO Supports Raising Awareness for DRR
Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawa and Mr. Nobuyuki Nakaya, country representative of SEEDS Asia, a Japanese NGO, signed the grant contract for the “Project on raising awareness for disaster risk reduction by Mobile Knowledge Resource Center (MKRC)” at the Embassy of Japan onJanuary 20, 2015. The project, amounting to US$ 175,326 (approximately 7.7 million pesos), is funded through the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects, a small-grant funding program of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). The […]
Obama’s State of the Union Address
It’s “time to turn the page” from recession and war… That was U.S. President Barack Obama’s message during Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.” Obama touted his “middle-class economic” policies for trimming the jobless rate to 5.6 percent…. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: “This is good news people (laughter)” …and urged the […]
