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Reuters Posted at  Mar 29 2019 08:59 AM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn File photo from Reuters PHOENIX - A Hong Kong tourist plunged to his death on Thursday after slipping over a ledge while taking photographs at a Grand Canyon lookout, a tour operator said. The tourist, believed to be in his 50s, was taking photos during a mid-morning stop at the Eagle Point overlook on land owned by the Hualapai tribe when he slipped and fell, said David Leibowitz, spokesman for Grand Canyon West, a company that operates attractions in the area. He is presumed dead and rescuers were trying to recover the body late on Thursday afternoon, Leibowitz said. The tourist’s name was not immediately released. The man was part of a tour group visiting Grand Canyon West, a popular area that includes the horseshoe-shaped, glass Skywalk that juts out from the canyon wall and offers a look into the canyon some 4,000 feet below. It is west of the Grand Canyon National

ABS-CBN News Posted at  Mar 29 2019 01:11 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo speaks at Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference in Hainan, China.  Handout MANILA - Filipinos should see China's economic rise as an opportunity instead of a threat, former president and now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Friday. The Philippines should develop its ties with Asia's largest economy since Manila would also benefit from Beijing's progress, Arroyo explained. "...China’s effort in opening up has really been a boost for the economies of the world, especially the developing economies. The world should look at China’s rise as an opportunity rather than a threat,” she said, following her attendance at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference in Hainan, China. Arroyo's remarks came amid concerns over the Philippines' loans from China due to the two nations’ long-standing d

Rommel Conclara, ABS-CBN News Posted at  Mar 29 2019 02:06 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Andy Teodoro had a successful surgery Wednesday to help support his spinal cord and remove bone fragments, according to his friend Mikkel Aragon.  Photo courtesy of Mikkel Aragon BURLINGAME, California - A Filipino is at risk of paralysis from the waist down after sustaining wounds in a drive-by shooting in San Francisco that left one person dead and four others hurt.  Mikkel Aragon said he was supposed to have dinner with friends, including Fernando Teodoro, last Saturday night in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. “My brother and I were outside the restaurant then we heard a bunch of guns shots, probably 12 or 15 of them. And when we saw people running a block and a half away I told him we better get in man," Aragon said.  Soon after, Teodoro called saying he'd been shot while walking to the restaurant. Pinoy injured in San Francisco d

Munir Uz Zaman, AFP Posted at  Mar 29 2019 02:48 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus Pinterest Bangladeshi firefighters on ladders work to extinguish a blaze in an office building in Dhaka on Thursday. A huge fire tore through a Dhaka office block March 28 killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the latest major inferno to hit the Bangladesh capital. 

ABS-CBN News Posted at  Mar 29 2019 01:51 PM The man who was serving seven consecutive life sentences in prison for killing seven people, including Filipina Kathleen Ping, has died inside the California State Prison in Sacramento. A state correctional officer announced Wednesday that 50-year-old One Goh died on March 28. His cause of death has not been released. On April 2, 2012, Goh unleashed a barrage of gunshots inside the Oikos University in Oakland, fatality shooting 24-year-old Ping, a receptionist, and six students. Memorial held for Pinay slain in Oakland shooting Authorities said Goh was furious at school administrators for expelling him and refusing to refund his tuition. In 2015, a Superior Court judge wrote that  Goh  suffered from schizophrenia, severe depression and a delusional disorder, and was mentally unfit to stand trial. Ping was her family's breadwinner and she left behind a young son. Read more on  Balitang America . Share Sav

ABS-CBN News Posted at  Mar 29 2019 04:16 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn MAYNILA- Inilunsad nitong Biyernes ng Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) ang kanilang hotline para sa mga overseas Filipino workers. Maaaring tumawag sa hotline 1348 para humingi ng tulong o kung mayroon silang mga katanungan ukol sa mga programa ng OWWA. Kung nasa Metro Manila, maaaring direktang tawagan ang hotline samantalang kung nasa probinsya naman ay dapat i-dial ang 02-1348. Para sa mga nasa ibang bansa, 0632-1348 ang numerong kailangan tawagan. Ayon sa OWWA, bukas ang hotline araw-araw kahit na holiday. -ulat ni Zen Hernandez, ABS-CBN News Bisitahin ang  Patrol.PH  para sa iba pang mga balita. Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Read More:    OFW. OWWA     OFW hotline     tagalog news     PatrolPH  

Published  March 28, 2019 11:25am  A Filipino businessman will face two years in jail after being convicted of exploiting fellow Filipino foreign workers in Canada. Hector Mantolino, who owns several cleaning and maintenance companies, used Canadian government’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program to take advantage of the 28 workers he had brought in from the Philippines, the  CBC News reported . According to a statement, Mantolino paid these workers at least $500,000 less than their total reported wages. Mantolino allegedly advised his workers to lie about their salaries and threatened them of losing their job in Canada if they do otherwise. Some of the workers said they had stated they would receive a Canadian wage but were paid only $3.13 per hour after various deductions. Judge Glen McDougall handed his decision against Mantolino over several factors including "the length of time the non-payment scheme was in place, the amount of effort by Mantolino

Agence France-Presse Posted at  Mar 28 2019 07:40 AM Share Save acebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn UALA LUMPUR - Adultery and gay sex in Brunei will be subject to death by stoning from next week, authorities said, under a strict Sharia law that has been on hold for four years amid heavy criticism. Rights groups reacted in horror Wednesday to the latest hardline move from the resource-rich nation on Borneo, which practices a stricter brand of Islam than its neighbors Malaysia and Indonesia. The tiny sultanate will implement the harsh new penal code -- which also prescribes amputation of a hand and foot for theft -- next Wednesday. Homosexuality is already illegal in Brunei but it will now become a capital offence. The law only applies to Muslims.  The new penalty for theft is amputation of the right hand for a first offence, and the left foot for a second offence.  Amnesty International Wednesday urged Brunei to "immediately halt" implementing the new penalti

Published  March 28, 2019 11:25am  A Filipino businessman will face two years in jail after being convicted of exploiting fellow Filipino foreign workers in Canada. Hector Mantolino, who owns several cleaning and maintenance companies, used Canadian government’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program to take advantage of the 28 workers he had brought in from the Philippines, the  CBC News reported . According to a statement, Mantolino paid these workers at least $500,000 less than their total reported wages. Mantolino allegedly advised his workers to lie about their salaries and threatened them of losing their job in Canada if they do otherwise. Some of the workers said they had stated they would receive a Canadian wage but were paid only $3.13 per hour after various deductions. Judge Glen McDougall handed his decision against Mantolino over several factors including "the length of time the non-payment scheme was in place, the amount of effort by Mantolino

Don Tagala, ABS-CBN News Posted at  Mar 27 2019 07:01 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Watch more in  iWant  or  TFC.tv NEW YORK CITY - A 2-year old Filipino-American in New York City has been making waves in the art scene, creating paintings that have sold for as much as $23,000 each. To the untrained eye, Fil-Am Lola June looks like any other toddler playing with paper and paint. But to New York City’s art community, she is known as the pint-sized Picasso. The expressionist been featured in local media. Her recent solo art exhibition sold 30 of the 40 artworks she recently created. Mixed media artist Pajtim Osmonaj, the show’s curator, discovered the young Fil-Am’s talent in her own living room. While visiting mom Lucille Javier, Osmanaj saw something special in Lola June’s scribbles. “That made me to think ‘Oh, I wanna see more of her work, how she can express herself with better materials,” he said. Viewed side by side, Osmanaj