BALANGA CITY, Bataan: The Provincial Health Office on Monday announced that it has conducted outbreak investigations on 122 victims of food poisoning and 117 persons struck down by diarrhea in Limay, Bataan and Balanga City in separate occasions on Tuesday to Thursday last week.
Dr. Rosanna Buccahan, acting Provincial Health Officer, said they are waiting for the results of rectal swab to be known in two weeks and stool culture in one week to determine the cause or causes that affected the victims. Read Article
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A Bangkok cabdriver previously convicted of a sexual assault was arrested for allegedly raping a female passenger on Monday, a police said at a press conference late on Monday night. Klongton police superintendent Pol Colonel Sittipab Baiprasert said a friend of the 26-year-old victim alerted police at 7.15pm that the woman was being raped in […]
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A German tourist was shot three times while walking along a beach in seemingly random attack in Jayapura, Papua on Tuesday, National Police said. Dietmar Pieper, 55, was visiting Base G beach with his wife Eva Medina, 55, when an unidentified assailant opened fire at 11:30 a.m. and then sped off in a Toyota Avanza […]
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ISTANBUL — A strike and work slowdown at Istanbul’s main airport has forced Turkish Airlines to cancel more than 100 flights. Ground handlers, technicians and other workers are protesting a government-proposed legislation that would ban future strike actions by aviation workers. Read article
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PHNOM PENH: A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, the country’s third fatality from the virulent disease this year. The child developed a fever and shortness of breath on May 20 and died on Sunday, the WHO said in a joint statement with the Cambodian health […]
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A KOREAN national and two Filipino companions were arrested in an entrapment operation for alleged illegal recruitment of five people for a promised job in Seoul, South Korea. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Davao Region arrested the Korean national and two others (named withheld in compliance with the anti-human trafficking act) at a […]
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UPDATE: There was more trouble on Tuesday May 22nd following the alleged kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiites near the Syrian border. The incident sparked more violence with areas of southern Beirut and the Bekaa Valley blockaded. The Bekaa Valey should be avoided and visitors should exercise extreme caution while moving around Beirut.) Tanks and troops […]
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Being in a zoo does not give one the right to act like an animal. An Italian tourist learned this the hard way after security guards at Manila Zoo arrested him and turned him over to the police on Sunday afternoon. Read article
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As a follow-up to my posting of yesterday (May 26), concerning the suspicious death of Irish exchange student, Nicola Furlong, 21, and the alleged rape of her friend, also 21, and an Irish student, local media have now reported that the two Americans, 19 and 23, invited the two women to their Tokyo hotel rooms. […]
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Myagdi, Babiyachaur, May 24: Tourists, missing for the past 17 days during climb of the Annapurna first in Narchyang-1 of Myagdi, could not be found out so far. Harver Tibor, 34, of Hungary who was missing in avalanche while returning after the climb on May 6 could not be rescued. Read article
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