Новости за 23.06.2015

Ferrari specialist Purosangue Maranello decided to sell their one-off Testa D’Oro Colani at their showroom in Maranello, Itlay. The 1989 Ferrari holds a land record at the  Bonneville Salt Flats, dominating its class in the land speed event. The seemingly Jetsons-inspired vehicle was designed by Professor Luigi Colani with one thing in mind –  to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Independent record label founder Allen Kovac had planned to remove the music by his artists from iTunes a week ahead of the launch of Apple Music. Kovac, whose labels are home to performers ranging from Motley Crue to Blondie, changed his mind Monday after Apple decided it would pay artists during […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market. The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Monday and the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google is adding a free tier to its subscription streaming music service in the U.S., aiming to convert the millions of people who click on the Google Play Music app every month but turn away because they’re prompted for payment information. The service uses Songza, an Internet radio app that […]

Southeast Asia’s mobile gaming revenues are expected to grow six-fold to over $7.0 billion in the next five years thanks to smartphones and high-speed Internet access, an industry report said Tuesday. Revenues only crossed the $1.0 billion mark in 2014 but are expected to rise at a compounded annual growth rate of 48 percent until […]

The United Nations Tuesday opened a new office in Seoul to monitor North Korea’s human rights record, prompting a warning from Pyongyang of “resolute toughest” action against what it termed a grave” provocation. The office was formally opened in a ceremony attended by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, despite the […]

“Once there was a stone age, a bronze age—and now we are in the middle of the plastic age.”, stated 18-year-old Boyan Slat in his TEDx talk in Deflt at Netherlands. The world actually produces 300 million tons of plastic every year; and enough of them are thrown away to circle the world 4 times […]

The Supreme Court (SC) required the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) yesterday to answer in 10 days two petitions that challenged the constitutionality of the 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). Answers or comments were also required by the SC on the […]

Games Today (Smart Araneta Coliseum) 4:15 p.m. – Kia vs Meralco 7 p.m. – NLEX vs Ginebra Survival will be the theme of today’s final elimination round as three teams will fight for the last playoff berth in the PBA Governors’ Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and Kia face separate […]

Symbols can be used to communicate power and authority — both temporal and spiritual. Every culture has developed symbols of power and rank that accord with its social values, beliefs and customs. Many are associated with royalty and office or with wealth and possessions. Traditionally, valuable commodities have been used to signify wealth and rank. […]

The House of Representatives will revive the congressional inquiry into the national security implications of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ decision to award the P8-billion electronic passport printing contract to a state-run printing firm. This time, however, Akbayan Partylist Rep. Ibarra Gutierrez III said the House inquiry will focus on the capability of APO Production […]

Malacanang on Tuesday said while accepting any settlement is a prerogative of the Kentex fire victims, it should not stop the government from pursuing investigation for possible violations of existing rules and regulations. ”The prerogative to accept any settlement belongs to the victims’ families and it must be respected,” said Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte […]

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese organizers of a parade marking the end of World War II were keeping mum Tuesday over the sensitive question of which foreign countries’ militaries had been invited to take part. The Sept. 3 event will include a speech and troop inspection by president and ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, who […]

A U.S. surveillance aircraft with Philippine Air Force (PAF) personnel on board conducted a maritime domain awareness (MDA) flight in the waters off Luzon, the United States Navy said Tuesday. The flight, staged on June 19, enabled the U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron 45 (VP-45) to demonstrate to PAF personnel the advanced capabilities of its newest […]

LT Group, Inc. (LTG) is allotting P10 billion for capital expenditures this year as it looks toward 2015 with more optimism than 2014, although “the challenges that were present in 2014 still remain.” In a press briefing after the firm’s annual stockholders’ meeting, LTG president Michael G. Tan said the bulk of P7.7 billion of […]

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II is leaving Tuesday on a state visit to Germany that will include her first trip to a former concentration camp site. She and her husband Prince Philip plan to visit the Bergen-Belsen camp where diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the British liberated […]

The Philippines is poised to host Southeast Asia’s first defense economic zone. By August, the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is expected to accredit the 340-hectare Government Arsenal (GA) in Limay, Bataan as an economic zone, which will house local and foreign manufacturers of weaponry and ammunition. Armed Forces of the Philippines Retired Major General […]

The Philippine economy is unlike to grow at least 7 percent this year due to bottlenecks in disbursement of public funds, one of the three major international credit rating agencies said. In its second-quarter sovereign review released on June 23, debt-watcher Fitch Ratings said the Philippine economy may grow by 6.3 percent this year, below […]

The Korean drama, “The Producers,” closed on a high, earning its highest rating in its entire run during its finale that aired June 20. The 12th and final episode of the show garnered an 18.2 percent rating from TnMS Korea and 17.7 percent from AGB Nielsen Korea, allowing it to finish second overall nationwide in […]

Oscar de la Hoya announced a “serious” boxing comeback after two drug rehabs and six years of retirement. In an interview with The Guardian, The boxing legend claimed he was still physically fit and could still compete against current boxing champions, saying “42 is the new 32”. De la Hoya was quoted, “I feel […]