Tropical storm Saudel threatens Vietnam after soaking Philippines
People walk in floodwater in Caluag Town, Quezon province, Philippines October 21, 2020 in this picture obtained from social media. Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office – Caluag/via REUTERS. HANOI/MANILA — Vietnam scrambled to evacuate thousands of people from their homes as tropical storm Saudel approached on Wednesday, bringing more misery for a country […]
Jared Leto Will Reprise His Role As The Joker In Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ Director’s Cut
Jared Leto will reprise his Suicide Squad role as the Joker for Zack Snyder’s new director’s cut of Justice League, which is scheduled to arrive on HBO MAX mid-2021 as a four-episode miniseries. The new definitive version of the 2017 film will present it as Snyder intended, before he was forced to withdraw from the project due to […]
US on brink of rampant coronavirus spread, Europe hospitals strained
FILE PHOTO: Medics bring a patient suspected of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case, to a hospital in Bialystok, Poland, April 1, 2020. Agnieszka Sadowska/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM — Nearly two-thirds of U.S. states were in a danger zone of coronavirus spread and six, including election battleground Wisconsin, reported a record one-day increase in COVID-19 […]
Julien Baker Announces New Album ‘Little Oblivions’, Shares First Single
Singer-songwriter Julien Baker has announced a new album titled Little Oblivions. The follow-up to 2017 sophomore LP Turn Out the Lights is due out February 26 via Matador, and was recorded in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. Baker produced the record herself, with Turn Out the Lights collaborators Calvin Lauber and Craig Silvey returning to engineer and mix the […]
New Blis report pinpoints geography, mobility and psychology as the key factors impacting behaviour change leading up to the holiday season
SYDNEY, Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Blis, the trusted leader in location-powered advertising and analytics has today launched a new global report, ‘Behaviour change is real: how brands can harness it’, in advance of the upcoming holiday season. The report looks at three key indicators for behaviour change that are impacting consumers and being impacted […]
Watch Dolly Parton Make Stephen Colbert Cry With Folk Standard ‘Bury Me Beneath The Willow’
Dolly Parton was recently a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where she discussed her new coffee table book Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, which is out next month, along with her forthcoming Christmas album. At one point, Parton began singing ‘Bury Me Beneath the Willow’, a traditional folk song that depicts a young woman being […]
Only 25% of workers in bridge project are Chinese, says embassy
MANILA, Philippines — Only 25 percent of workers building the China-funded Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge are Chinese, according to the Chinese Embassy, disputing senators’ remarks about the labor force in the project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). The Chinese Embassy issued the statement as Malacañang said on Wednesday that the Chinese government should […]
Resume COVID-19 testing, Palace urges Red Cross
MANILA, Philipines — Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday pressed the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) to resume its testing services for thousands of arriving overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to keep them from getting stranded in quarantines. As of Wednesday, the number of repatriated workers cooped up in quarantines owing to delayed results of COVID-19 tests […]
House panels’ draft report pushes raps vs Duque
MANILA, Philippines — Two House committees investigating corruption in Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) have initially recommended administrative and criminal charges against Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, some Cabinet officials sitting on the PhilHealth board, and senior officials of the company. A 65-page draft report of the House committees on public accounts and good government […]
3 PhilHealth execs acquitted in 2002 case
MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan Special Second Division acquitted four former officials of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) of graft charges over the insurance of government-owned vehicles to a private company in 2000 to 2001. Reynaldo Dalma, former senior vice president; Gregorio Rulloda, then vice president for finance; Joseph Vergara, administrative officer V; and Maribeth […]