Technician sent to hospital after gas explosion at laundry shop
A 41-year-old technician suffered burns in his head, legs and hands and was sent to hospital after a gas explosion at a laundry shop in Sai Ying Pun Saturday afternoon. The explosion occurred around 2pm this afternoon at the shop located on Bonham Street. A female staffer surnamed Chiu said the technician surnamed Yeung was replacing two petroleum gas tanks for the drying machine at the time. The machine didn't work with new gas tanks so Yeung unscrewed the gas tank valves but it exploded, burning both his hands. Firefighters later carried three gas tanks outside the shop and showered water on them.
Source:The Standard
June 04, 2022 11:45 UTC
Indian climber banned for faking Everest ascent reaches summit
KATHMANDU, Nepal — An Indian climber banned from Everest after faking a summit of the world’s highest mountain has successfully scaled the peak for real, telling AFP he returned to “prove” himself. “Everest is a dream for all of us but Everest is life for me,” Yadav told AFP on Friday. “We granted him a certificate on Wednesday after he presented enough evidence of his Everest summit,” said Nepal tourism department official Bishma Raj Bhattrai. An Indian couple were banned for 10 years in 2016 after they published doctored photos purporting to show them at the top of Everest. The pair — both police constables — superimposed themselves and their banners onto photos taken by another Indian climber at the summit.
Source:Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 04, 2022 09:59 UTC
Japanese man becomes world's oldest to sail solo across Pacific
- 83-year-old yachtsman Horie arrived in Japan early on June 4, 2022, after a solo, non-stop trip across the Pacific, becoming the oldest person ever to achieve the feat. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUTAN 83-year-old yachtsman arrived in Japan early Saturday morning after a solo, non-stop trip across the Pacific, becoming the oldest person ever to achieve the feat. The public relations team for his most recent voyage said Horie's Saturday return to Japan made him the world's oldest person to pull off a solo, non-stop crossing of the largest and deepest ocean on Earth. His 1962 Pacific crossing made headlines as he embarked on the trip without a passport, essentially smuggling his way into the United States. Aside from his 1962 Pacific crossing, Horie is known for sailing around the world solo in 1974 and his longitudinal voyage around the world between 1978 and 1982.
Source:Manila Times
June 04, 2022 05:44 UTC
World leaders greet Queen Elizabeth 2nd
HAIL TO THE QUEEN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth 2nd attends a ceremony to light of the Principal Beacon outside of Buckingham Palace in London, from the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, on Thursday, June 2, 2022, as part of Platinum Jubilee celebrations. AFP PHOTOPARIS: Queen Elizabeth 2nd on Thursday (Friday in Manila) began four days of celebrations to mark her Platinum Jubilee, the first British monarch in history to achieve such a feat. As thousands converged on central London to mark the historic milestone, messages of congratulation poured in for the 96-year-old queen. United States"Jill and I wish Your Majesty a joyful Platinum Jubilee celebration. On behalf of the United States, congratulations to Queen Elizabeth 2nd on an unprecedented 70 years of service to the UK and Commonwealth, and thank you for your friendship to the American people," US President Joe Biden said in a tweet.
Source:Manila Times
June 04, 2022 03:15 UTC
Clean, green superhero dog fights garbage in Chile
SANTIAGO – Sam, the four-legged superhero, works to keep a park in Chile’s capital clean and green. The border collie, who takes regular walks in Santiago’s metropolitan park with his owner, has become famous wearing a green cape in a comic used as an educational guide. ADVERTISEMENTIt all started when Sam and Gonzalo Chiang had to stop again and again in the city’s largest green area to pick up plastic bottles, masks, cans and food packages. “On Sam’s walks we began to find a lot of garbage,” Chiang said in an interview. Sam and Gonzalo “have inspired us to accelerate this education process and structure this garbage classification,” said Eduardo Villalobos, the park’s acting director.
Source:Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 03, 2022 23:24 UTC
Bullseye: Man shatters taxi's window by throwing iPhone at it
Police are now searching for a man who on Friday shattered a taxi's window by throwing his iPhone 12 at it after he suspectedly went mad because the driver didn't stop to pick him up. The incident occurred around 2.30am on Friday as the taxi was traveling along Connaught Road Central outside Hong Kong City Hall. It was understood that the man walked onto the road and hailed the taxi but the driver didn't notice the man and headed off straight away. The man who went mad then threw his iPhone 12 at precisely the window and shattered it, landing the smartphone on the front seat accurately. It is understood that the iPhone dies and officers are still checking who is the owner.
Source:The Standard
June 03, 2022 19:28 UTC
Putin made ‘historic’ error in Ukraine — Macron
Paris, France — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had committed a “historic and fundamental error” by invading Ukraine and was now “isolated.”“I think, and I told him, that he made a historic and fundamental error for his people, for himself and for history,” he said in an interview with French regional media. ADVERTISEMENT“I think he has isolated himself,” Macron said. “Isolating oneself is one thing, but being able to get out of it is a difficult path”. RELATED STORY:Russia’s war in Ukraine: Latest developmentsJPVSubscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy PolicyRead Next
Source:Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 03, 2022 19:20 UTC
Ukraine investigates deportation of children to Russia as possible genocide
THE HAGUE — Prosecutors investigating war crimes cases in Ukraine are examining allegations of the forcible deportation of children to Russia since the invasion as they seek to build a genocide indictment, the country’s top prosecutor said in an interview. Russia in the past has said that it is offering humanitarian aid to those wishing to flee Ukraine voluntarily. Russia has strongly denied that its forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine and has in turn accused Ukrainian troops of atrocities, including mistreatment of prisoners of war. She said that any perpetrators should then be tried at the International Criminal Court, the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal. RELATED STORY:Ukrainians being taken ‘against their will’ into Russia—PentagonBiden accuses Russia of genocide in UkraineSubscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address.
Source:Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 03, 2022 19:01 UTC
Allied Care Experts Medical Center-Gensan Inc Notice of Annual Stockholder's Meeting
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING OF ALLIED CARE EXPERTS (ACE) MEDICAL CENTER-GENSAN INC.DEAR STOCKHOLDERS:Please take notice that the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Allied Care Experts (ACE)Medical Center -Gensan Inc. will be held on June 22, 2022, Wednesday, at 8:00 in the morn- ing; the meeting will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Voting will be done via the online tool which you can access once you have logged in to the zoom meeting. The host will launch the following voting link during the meeting, where participants will be prompted to cast their votes. https://acegensanvote.app/Please note the following voting procedure:Log in using the link and voting code provided by ACE. You may contact the undersigned via email at [email protected] , or through telephone number: (083) 553-3595, if you have inquiries or concerns regarding the meeting.
Source:Manila Times
June 03, 2022 16:43 UTC
US says India allows religious attacks
Unveiling an annual report on international religious freedom, Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered bleak assessments of several US adversaries including China, Iran and Myanmar. "In India, the world's largest democracy and home to a great diversity of faiths, we've seen rising attacks on people in places of worship," Blinken said. In the report, the State Department pointed to laws restricting religious conversions, quoted accounts of discrimination against Muslims and Christians, and said that "politicians made inflammatory public remarks or social media posts about religious minorities." India frequently bristles at foreign criticism of its record and has denounced the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, an autonomous government panel, which has repeatedly recommended that the State Department put India on a blacklist. The report also pointed to concerns in India's historic rival Pakistan, which is on the religious freedom blacklist.
Source:Manila Times
June 03, 2022 16:15 UTC
Celtics rally to beat Warriors in Game 1
Al Horford led an electrifying fourth quarter comeback as the Boston Celtics stunned the Golden State Warriors 120-108 to draw first blood in their best-of-seven NBA Finals series on Thursday. Al Horford of the Boston Celtics shoots a three point basket against the Golden State Warriors during Game One of the 2022 NBA Finals on June 2, 2022 at Chase Center in San Francisco, California. That was our message throughout the whole game,” Horford said afterwards. Instead it was the Warriors whose resistance crumbled in a fourth quarter that saw the home side outscored by an astonishing margin of 40-16. No one could have foreseen the Celtics’ fourth quarter onslaught during a third quarter when it appeared that the Warriors’ greater experience was finally beginning to tell.
Source:Manila Times
June 03, 2022 15:24 UTC
Turkey officially changes name at UN to ‘Turkiye’
UNITED NATIONS – Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called “Turkiye” in all languages, the UN announced Thursday. “The change is immediate,” Stephane Dujarric, the UN chief’s spokesperson, told AFP by email. ADVERTISEMENTHe noted that Ankara’s official letter requesting the change had been received at the UN’s New York headquarters on Wednesday. The day before, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavasoglu had tweeted a photo of himself signing the letter, addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy PolicyRead Next
Source:Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 03, 2022 11:18 UTC
Editorial by Philadelphia Daily News/Inquirer: ‘Gas tax refund’ giveaway presents big, inequitable hit to state budget
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Source:Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 03, 2022 08:14 UTC
Hybrid vote count pushed
Information technology experts on Thursday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to shift to a hybrid form of election system for the next national elections. National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections president Gus Lagman called the current automated election system a “secret counting” as it is “not transparent to the voters” because poll results were automated and processed by the machine. ADVERTISEMENT“When we automated the precinct counting, we not only made it much easier to cheat, but we made it more difficult to detect cheating,” Lagman told reporters during the Pandesal Forum. The former Comelec commissioner said the poll body should instead use a hybrid system for the next elections, where a manual ballot count is to be done in precincts and canvassing of votes will be automated. —KATHLEEN DE VILLARead Next
Source:Philippine Daily Inquirer
June 03, 2022 06:54 UTC
Third bar cluster in Central identified as HK adds 489 Covid cases
Hong Kong reported 489 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday as health authorities looked into a third bar cluster in Central where up to 18 infections were reported. Among the new cases, 170 were confirmed via PCR tests and 319 were positive rapid antigen test results reported by citizens. Chuang also reported that the center detected a new outbreak cluster at a third bar in Central district -- LINQ located on Pottinger Street, where at least 18 people aged 17 to 58 caught Covid. The center was also alerted of 40 cases reported by 34 schools, including 28 students and 12 teachers and staff members. An outbreak cluster was detected at Holy Trinity College in Shek Kip Mei, involving five students and a teacher of a jazz dance class.
Source:The Standard
June 03, 2022 04:23 UTC