Новости за 24.08.2015

TORONTO (AP) — The hack of the cheating website Ashley Madison has triggered extortion crimes and led to two unconfirmed reports of suicides, Canadian police said Monday. The company behind Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 Canadian (US $378,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of members of a group that hacked the […]

UN Security Council members on Monday opened their first-ever meeting on LGBT rights to hear Syrian and Iraqi gays tell of terror under Islamic State rule. “It’s historic,” US Ambassador Samantha Power told reporters ahead of the meeting. “It’s about time — 70 years after the creation of the UN — that the fate of […]

North and South Korea on Tuesday wrapped up marathon talks aimed at defusing a crisis that pushed the two rivals to the brink of armed conflict. There was no immediate word on the outcome of the negotiations, held between top aides to the countries’ leaders in the border truce village of Panmunjom, where […]

Global stock markets plunged and commodity prices hit new lows Monday extending a Chinese-led rout, fed by fears of a damaging slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. Chinese stocks have tumbled since peaking in mid-June and authorities have launched broad interventions to try to restrain the drops, but Beijing’s latest market intervention has failed […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on Monday expected to call snap polls likely to be held on November 1 after efforts to form a coalition government failed. Erdogan was meeting with parliament speaker Ismet Yilmaz at his presidential palace to make the arrangements, a day after the deadline for forming a new government […]

The Theater of Solaire got all soppy on Thursday with the critically acclaimed production of “Singin’ In The Rain” opening its limited run, getting us all wet – literally. Based on the 1952 MGM movie of the same title starring Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood and Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Selden, the two-act, feel-good musical […]

Fernando Poe Jr. would have been 76 last Aug. 20. It was quite apt, then, that ABS-CBN held a premiere showing of their latest teleserye project “Ang Probinsyano” on that day. The soap is based on one of Da King’s iconic films released back in 1997, as a touching tribute not only to his life’s […]

There is nothing funny about war – impending or otherwise – but HBO’s running show, the political satire “The Brink,” posits that some of the not-so-honorable people behind the scenes can get in silly situations as they try to pick up their wits and scramble to stop World War Three. “The Brink” stars Tim Robbins […]

Jed Madela has realized he just can’t veer from doing birit numbers. “Kasi we noticed kapag nagre-record ako ng simple na mga kanta parang okay lang, parang walang impact sa tao. Pero kapag nandiyan na ang mga birit, ang high notes, doon sila nagiging interesado. Siguro naging tatak ko na sa tao bilang one of […]

Filipino independent films continue to make waves in international film festivals with several of them set to be screened at the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto International Film Festival from Sept. 10 to 20. Among these are Erik Matti’s “Honor Thy Father” and Lawrence Fajardo’s “Imbisibol.” “Honor Thy Father” is about a couple […]

The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) dismissed the petition of the Manila Peninsula Hotel (MPH) to compel the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to return what it claimed “erroneously paid or illegally collected value-added tax (VAT).” In a 20-page resolution, the tax court’s third Division said, however, it was erroneous for the hotel to claim […]

Oil companies are expected to implement another  cut in pump prices. Eastern Petroleum said it will reduce gasoline and diesel prices by P1.15 per liter and P0.45 per liter, respectively, effective, 6PM, Aug 24, 2015. On Tuesday, Pilipinas Shell said it will reduce the prices of  gasoline by P1.10 per liter and diesel by P0.40 […]

Tokyo, Japan | AFP – A huge blaze broke out Monday at a steel pipe plant near Tokyo’s Haneda airport, a fire department official said, as television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air. The blaze came just hours after a blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post near […]

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) issued a yellow rainfall warning over Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, and Batangas, as of 11 a.m. today, August 24. The rainfall is brought about by the southwest monsoon enhanced by the typhoon “Ineng”. Pampanga, Rizal, northern Zambales, and certain portions of Cavite are affected by light to moderate rains […]

TOKYO — Stocks fell in early trading Monday in Asia as investors shaken by the sell-off last week on Wall Street unloaded shares in many sectors. The Shanghai composite index tumbled 8 percent to 3,228.57 in early trading; Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 4.2 percent to 21,475.15 and Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index dropped […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea — As marathon negotiations by senior officials from the rival Koreas stretched into a third day, South Korea’s president said Monday that anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts will continue unless North Korea apologizes for planting land mines that maimed two South Korean soldiers. The comments by Park Geun-hye suggest both a hard line stance […]

The Manila International Airport Authority said that two flights of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) and two of Skyjet Airlines are cancelled today, August 24, due to bad weather conditions. The cancelled PAL flights are 2P 2084 Manila – Basco and 2P 2085 Basco – Manila. While for the Skyjet Airlines, the cancelled flights are M8 816 Manila – […]

Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos sought an immediate assistance from the national government to help restore the province after typhoon “Ineng” hit Northern Luzon areas. The provincial officials declared the province under state of calamity in a convened special session last Saturday, August 22. As of August 23, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management and […]

Senator Pilar Juliana “Pia” Cayetano called for the resignation of National Historical Commission of the Philippines’ (NHCP) chairman today, August 24, over her alleged inability to protect the Rizal Monument. “Chair Diokno, resign if you cannot defend the Rizal Monument!” Cayetano said. According to Cayetano, she found it strange that Chairperson Maria Serena I. Diokno insists that NHCP […]

Typhoon “Ineng” is now outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) heading towards Japan as all public storm warning signals in the country were lifted, the state weather bureau said today, August 24. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) weather forecaster, Jun Galang, told Philippines News Agency that “Ineng” has left the PAR […]