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BAGUIO CITY — Authorities are hunting down gunmen who used automatic rifles, fired at a group of men on Tuesday evening, killing a villager and hurting two more beside a river in Sitio Burobor, Barangay Bangcagan, Bucay town in Abra.
MANILA, Philippines — Former Ilocos Sur Gov. Chavit Singson revealed that he immediately fired the employee who went viral after allegedly kicking his white lion named King in his Baluarte Resort and Mini Zoo in Ilocos Sur.
Taiwan showed off its missile firepower on Tuesday, August 20, launching a battery of surface-to-air missiles in front of reporters during a visit to a sensitive test site on a remote part of the island's southeastern coast. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has complained of stepped up Chinese military activity as Beijing seeks to assert its sovereignty claims, and Taipei has been strengthening its deterrence abilities. At the Jiupeng base in Taiwan's Pingtung County, the military test fired both US-made Patriot and Taiwan-made Sky Bow III missiles into the skies as dawn broke, while a warship off the coast fired a RIM-66 Standard missile. Jiupeng is also where the government-run weapons developer National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology tests new missiles, like the longer-range version of the Hsiung Feng which is designed to hit targets deep in China.
MANILA, Philippines — At least seven houses were destroyed when a fire broke out at a residential area in San Andres, Manila yesterday.
TAIWAN — Taiwan conducted missile drills simulating the interception of enemy fighters and munitions at a sensitive test site Tuesday, as the island seeks to step up "combat effectiveness" against an increasingly assertive China.
(UPDATES) THE four firemen involved in the use of their fire truck to refill a private swimming pool in Taytay, Rizal, have been relieved, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said Monday.
WASHINGTON — Brooks Koepka beat Jon Rahm in a playoff to win the LIV Golf Greenbrier title on Sunday (Monday in Manila) for his record fifth career crown on the Saudi-backed series.
ROME (AP) — A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday. One body was found, six people remain missing and 15 people were rescued, including a 1-year-old girl, authorities said.