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(Courtesy NASA) Sept. 11, 2014 — NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission’s long-term prime destination. “Curiosity now will begin a new chapter from an already outstanding introduction to the world,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “After a historic and innovative landing along with its successful science […]
The House Committee on Social Service will investigate the delay on the part of the Department of Social Welfare and Development on using foreign donations to help victims of Typhoon “Yolanda”.
The 17 members of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee will vote for a wider investigation regarding the overpriced Makati buildings because Senator Trillanes did not include them in his original resolution.
The tropical depression being monitored by PAGASA has entered the Philippine area of responsiblity, where it was given the local designation of “Luis”. Its outer clouds will bring rains to Visayas and Mindanao.
The family of a deceased woman rushed to the Quirino Memorial Medical Center after finding out that her internal organs were replaced by newspaper.
At least ten Arab states are ready to back-up President Obama in his fight against ISIS. This includes Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. According to US Secretary of State John Kerry, said Arab states are ready to join a comprehensive fight against ISIS. President Obama first announced his plans against ISIS in a national address, saying that the United States will lead the fight against the […]
According to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Russia still has an estimated 1,000 troops inside eastern Ukraine. This is despite the ceasefire between the Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian rebels. Besides the aforementioned troops, 20,000 more are stationed at the border.
Nevertheless, they are apprehensive of an open-ended conflict. Obama sent a panel of top administration officials to the Capitol for the said step. Included in the plan are first-time airstrikes against Syria and sending more military advisers to Iraq. Said measure aims to stop the violence perpetrated by ISIS.
President Benigno S. Aquino III on Thursday led the ceremonial launch of the 420-megawatt Pagbilao III Power Plant project, signaling the start of the 37-month construction of the plant in Barangay Ibabang Polo, Pagbilao, Quezon province. “This (project) is absolutely necessary to ensure a steady supply of the power that Filipinos need day in, and day out, even as we seek to diversify the energy mix by bringing in other power sources,” President Aquino said in […]
(Reuters) – Led by President Barack Obama, Americans commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Thursday by observing moments of silence for the thousands killed that day at New York City’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. In what has become an annual ritual, relatives began slowly reciting the nearly 3,000 names of the victims at a ceremony in lower Manhattan, from Gordon Aamoth Jr. to Igor Zukelman. Readers […]
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang said it supports the United States’ newly announced strategy to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). During Thursday’s press briefing at the Palace, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said the Philippines is behind US President Barack Obama’s plan to fight terror. “In principle lang po,” he told reporters about the nature of the country’s support. “Iyong posisyon kasi ng Pilipinas ay ‘yung paglaban din sa […]
Author: Razeen Sally, NUS (Courtesy East Asia Forum) Sept. 10, 1014 — Big-block trade agreements or ‘mega-regionals’, revolving around one or more major powers, are the latest trend in trade policy negotiations. ASEAN is involved in two: the American-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Chinese-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). But are mega-regionals good for trade and economic growth? Will they spur regional and global economic integration? And where does ASEAN stand?As of 2013, there were […]
