Новости за 25.10.2015

US President Barack Obama on Monday welcomes to the White House political upstart Joko Widodo — the first Indonesian president to visit in a decade and a leader his hosts hope can help catalyze the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Obama — who lived in Indonesia for nearly five years as a child — will hold Oval Office talks with a fellow 54-year-old who, also like him, swept to power as an outsider promising change. Furniture-salesman-turned-president Widodo makes his maiden visit to Washington exactly a year after taking office. Читать дальше...

Vatican City — Catholic bishops called yesterday for a more welcoming church for cohabitating couples, gays, and Catholics who have divorced and civilly remarried, endorsing Pope Francis’ call for a more merciful and less judgmental church. Bishops from around the world adopted a final document at the end of a divisive, three-week synod on providing better pastoral care for Catholic families. It emphasizes the role of discernment and individual conscience in dealing with difficult family situations, in a win for liberal bishops. Читать дальше...

The thing with mobile devices these days is that a lot of them have been made portable and smaller. Such is the trend these days but in the process, respective manufacturers will have to take out some of the minor details.

A new wave of art criticism has emerged in an art book entitled Filipino Artists in their Studios, a 324-page book featuring four seasoned and eight young art writers who discussed, judged, and evaluated 75 Filipinos artists using theory, psychology, issues of social relevance, history, and other contextualization, with journalistic sagacity, all of which were initially published in the lifestyle weekly column, “Artist at Work,” of Manila Bulletin (MB), which is also the book’s publisher.

The Panasonic WV-SW559 vandal-resistant dome is part of a series of 1080p network video surveillance cameras that simultaneously deliver both full HD images and 360p images. Enclosed in a IP66-rated water- and dust-resistant dome, the camera uses a 2.8-10mm 3.6x varifocal auto-iris lens. Panasonic’s UniPhier® S newest generation LSI processor provides simultaneous cropping of whole and part images, lower bandwidth storage requirements, more VIQS zones, dual H.264 streaming capability and overall higher-level functionality.

Games Saturday (The Arena, San Juan) 12:45 p.m. – PLDT vs UP 3 p.m. – Coast Guard vs Kia Forte 5 p.m. – Navy vs Army Army survived PLDT Home Ultera’s spirited challenge to eke out a 25-23, 23-25, 25-11, 19-25, 15-13 win and gain a piece of the lead in the Shakey’s V-League Season 12 Reinforced Conference at The Arena in San Juan. The Lady Troopers needed two set points to take the fight out of the Ultrafast Spikers to tie surprise leader University of the Philippines for the lead at 2-0. Four players... Читать дальше...

“Behind the steering wheel of a dilapidated Kia car, I started praying after I saw a hand grenade thrown into the car. I knew then that they wanted me dead.” Breaking into tears, former Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) minister Lowell Menorca yesterday bared the alleged attempts of members of the INC’s Sanggunian (leadership) to have him killed, and the supposed physical and emotional torture he suffered inside the four walls of their church since his abduction in Sorsogon last July. EMOTIONAL RECOLLECTION ... Читать дальше...

The long wait is over. Apple Watch has finally arrived at Power Mac Center, the premier Apple partner in the Philippines. After months of anticipation following its worldwide launch in March, the big reveal happened only recently at Power Mac Center’s flagship store in Greenbelt 3.

Bitdefender, the creator of innovative online security software, is pleased to announced its elite Mac protection Antivirus for Mac won the Approved Security Product award from independent analysis firm AV-Comparatives.

Games Wednesday (Mall of Asia Arena) 2 p.m. – Adamson vs FEU 4 p.m. – La Salle vs NU University of Santo Tomas banked on the timely baskets of Kevin Ferrer to turn back University of Philippines, 83-76, last night and clinch the second Final Four berth in the UAAP basketball tournament at the Mall of Asia Arena. The 6-foot-4 Ferrer, playing his final season, bounced back from a horrendous 1-of-11 shooting in Wednesday’s loss to Ateneo by scoring 29 points that went along with his 14 rebounds to help... Читать дальше...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen faces a rare open split among her team of policymakers as they head into a meeting Tuesday and Wednesday to again weigh raising interest rates

COTABATO CITY – Commercial flights for Cotabato and Manila have resumed on Saturday after a six-day suspension due to poor visibility caused by thick aerial haze that stemmed from mass forest fire in Indonesia.

"We found out that there are about 6 million voter IDs that are available for claiming at the local Comelec offices nationwide," Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has suspended temporarily the electronic tax return filing system (eFPS) in cities and towns in Luzon with no Internet connectivity due to typhoon Lando. However, it instructed taxpayers enrolled in its electronic filing and payment system (eFPS) to file their returns manually to meet the deadline. BIR said these taxpayers should refile their returns via the eFPS once the Internet connectivity is restored in their respective areas. In signing Revenue Memorandum Order No. Читать дальше...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP --Africa's flourishing Ethiopian Airlines is clear -- the future lies with China and it plans to hit home that point by putting Chinese crew members on all flights to China as of next month.

Santa Rosa, Philippines | AFP -- Philippine rice farmer Francisco Santo Domingo's life is in ruins after losing yet another gamble with nature, but the typhoon that destroyed his crops means gleeful loan sharks have again hit the jackpot.

Patricia flattened a fishing hamlet on Mexico's Pacific coast, but authorities were relieved to see Saturday that the record-breaking hurricane largely spared the country and dissipated as it moved north.

Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao plans to end his ring career with a fight on April 9 before moving on to focus on his political career, promoter Bob Arum has told ESPN.com. Arum said he had discussed plans for a final fight with Pacquiao last week in New York — where Pacquiao received the Asia Game Changer award presented by the Asia Society at the United Nations. “I’m telling you what he told me last week at dinner in New York,” Arum told the website. “We talked very seriously and he said... Читать дальше...

MANILA — After the dissipation of typhoon “Lando,” the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Sunday that generally fair weather condition will prevail in the country in the next two to three days. PAGASA weather forecaster Aldczar Aurelio said no tropical cyclone is expected to enter the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) until Wednesday. “The whole country will generally have good weather condition, aside from isolated rains,” Aurelio told the Philippines News Agency. Читать дальше...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded a 4.0-magnitude earthquake 347 kilometers away from Sarangani in Davao Occidential. The earthquake, which was tectonic in nature, had a depth of only 5 kilometers and was recorded around 6:09 a.m. No aftershocks or damages were reported.