Новости за 23.08.2015

BEIJING (AP) — Fighter jets flew low over Beijing on Sunday as thousands of soldiers from China, Russia and other countries rehearsed for a military parade next month commemorating the end of World War II. The Sept. 3 parade will showcase the People’s Liberation Army’s rapidly growing capabilities at a time when Beijing is asserting […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Despite new surveillance video that may offer a possible clue to the bombing in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, Thai police said Sunday that the perpetrators may have already fled the country, and that they will “need some luck” to catch them. Surveillance video leaked to Thai media shows a man […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Senior officials from North and South Korea on Sunday were in their second day of marathon talks meant to pull the rivals back from the brink, even amid reports of unusual North Korean troop and submarine movement that Seoul said indicated continued battle preparation. While it was […]

LONDON (AP) — British police say the death toll from an airshow crash is “highly likely” to increase to 11 people after a fighter jet slammed into a busy main road. The Hawker Hunter single-seater fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit several vehicles on a nearby […]

Billionaire republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump took aim at Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton Sunday, contending she could be “very damaged” by an email scandal swirling around the former secretary of state. And amid reports that Vice President Joe Biden was actively exploring a run, Trump claimed that if Clinton could “get over” the controversy both […]

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday defended his immigration policies and unveiled a set of economic goodies for families ahead of general elections expected to be held in September. “Soon, I will be calling elections to ask for your mandate to take Singapore into this next phase of our nation-building,” Lee said […]

The planned imposition of additional taxes by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on balikbayan boxes being sent by Philippine nationals abroad to their loved ones back home has raised widespread condemnation from Filipino communities and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) abroad prompting Malacañang to call on the BOC to consider the mounting complaints. “We’re asking for […]

When smartphone competition heats up to which is faster and stronger, OPPO delivers a contender that is lovelier at first sight. Who does not want to be pretty, anyway. Enter grace and elegance.into the fierce fray, OPPO decides in releasing the Mirror 5. Sexy is back in the OPPO Mirror 5, and you can feel […]

Philippine handicrafts have come a long way from the days of sigay shell necklaces and ipil-ipil seed placemats of the 1950s. Though the years, Fiipiniana selections improved by leaps and bounds to become good enough to wear to state dinners, even to weddings. One woman is almost singlehandedly responsible for this success: Salud Tesoro. I […]

Hold your breath with Tom Cruise; go wild with Mad Men; or run for your life from Velociraptors, at your convenience, wherever you are. SM Lifestyle Entertainment Inc. (SMLEI) has recently partnered with Solar Entertainment Corporation for the majority ownership OMNI Digital Media Ventures, Inc., which operates Blink. BLINK is a video-on-demand technology that enables […]

A United Kingdom-based foundation trust which runs four hospital sites in Nottinghamshire has offered 64 posts to nurses from the Philippines. According to the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the highly-skilled nurses will be implemented within the next year, and will now undergo the international recruitment processes including English tests and visa applications. To […]

Storm warnings over typhoon-affected areas, except in Batanes Group of Islands, have been lifted before Sunday noon, as typhoon “Ineng” (international name “Goni”) moves further away from the country, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said. In its latest weather report, PAGASA said the eye of Ineng is located at 360 kilometers […]

Moscow (PNA/Sputnik) — While China finishes the construction of a landing strip for humanitarian purposes on its artificial island in the Spratly Islands archipelago in the South China Sea, the US is fiercely accusing the country of militarization of the area. A 3,000-foot Chinese airstrip on one of seven man-crafted islands in the Spratly Islands […]

MANILA, Aug. 23  – Typhoon “Ineng” has accelerated further as it continues to move in a north-northeast direction and is expected to exit the country by Sunday evening, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said. In an interview, PAGASA weather forecaster Jori Loiz said that as of 5 a.m. Sunday, the eye […]

Seoul (PNA/Xinhua) — South Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will resume the ongoing high-level emergency contact Sunday afternoon, the South Korean presidential office said. Presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook told reporters that the senior-level contact lasted from 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) Saturday to 4:15 a.m. Sunday at the truce village of Panmunjom […]

London  (PNA/Xinhua) — An aircraft crashed in an airshow in west Sussex, south Britain on Saturday, leaving seven people died and several others injured, local media reported. The incident occurred at around 1:20 p.m. local time (1220 GMT), said Sussex Police, adding that the aircraft hit several cars on a road, north of Shoreham Airport, […]