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An armed assailant was holding an unknown number of hostages in a central Sydney cafe on Monday, shutting down Australia’s largest city and raising fears it could be an attack by Islamist militant sympathisers. Six hours after the mid-morning siege began, television showed three hostages running out of the Lindt chocolate cafe and sheltering behind a heavily armed, black-clad SWAT team. Police said it was not known exactly how many more hostages remained in the […]
A long weekend greets the new year as President Aquino proclaims January 2 as special non-working holiday.
(Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition has cruised to a big election win, ensuring he will stick to reflationary economic policies and a muscular security stance, but record low turnout pointed to broad dissatisfaction with his performance. Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner, the Komeito party, won 326 seats in Sunday’s election, more than the 317 seats in the 475-member lower house required to maintain a two-thirds “super-majority” that smoothes […]
(Reuters) – A Russian military jet nearly collided with a commercial passenger airplane in international airspace near southern Sweden on Friday, Swedish authorities said, but Russia insisted its jet had kept at a safe distance. Passenger flight SK1755, operated by a unit of Scandinavian airline service SAS from the Danish capital Copenhagen to Poznan in Poland, was diverted by Swedish authorities before a collision occurred, the authorities said. But Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday denied […]
An armed assailant was holding an unknown number of hostages inside a central Sydney cafe on Monday, police said, with local television showing some being forced to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing in the window. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who has warned of militant plans to strike Australian targets, said there were indications the hostage situation at the Lindt Cafe was politically motivated. “This is a very disturbing incident. I can […]
A group of taxi drivers is willing to give a discount of ten pesos for every fare exceeding one hundred pesos due to the continuous oil price rollback.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority temporarily lifts the truck ban in Roxas Boulevard, allowing trucks to pass said place from 12 midnight to 5 in the morning to help decongest the Manila port.
Southern Luzon continues to experience the tail end of the cold front bringing rains in the Quezon Province and Palawan.
The Department of Education (DepEd) reminded all public school authorities that collection of any fees for school activities and celebrations is strictly prohibited. Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro FSC said that contributions in public schools should be voluntary. He added that while Parents-Teachers Association may be authorized to collect financial contributions from its members to enable it to implement programs and projects (such as year-end parties) for the benefit of the students, the fees should […]
Hostages were being held inside a central Sydney cafe where a black flag with white Arabic writing could be seen in the window, local television showed on Monday (December 15), raising fears of an attack linked to Islamic militants. Australia, which is backing the United States and its escalating action against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, is on high alert for attacks by radicalized Muslims or by home-grown fighters returning from fighting in the Middle East. Part of Martin Place, home to […]
The Hong Kong Police Force has vowed to clear out the last protest camp on Monday morning (December 15) as scheduled, putting an end to demonstrations that have blocked traffic in the city’s streets for 10 weeks. The clearance of the protest area in the retail hub of Causeway Bay, which is the smallest and the last remaining site occupied by the student-led demonstrators, will start at about 09:30 on Monday, according to Reuters. It quoted police authorities […]
Metro Manila will be cloudy with occasional rainshowers and thunderstorms as a tail-end of a cold front continue to affect Southern Luzon, and the Northeast Monsoon also affecting Northern Luzon. PAGASA said Aurora, Quezon and Palawan will experience cloudy skies with light to moderate rainshowers and thunderstorms. The regions of Cagayan Valley, Cordillera and Ilocos will have cloudy skies with light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated […]
