South East Asia

Construction on the Chu Giang Industrial Cluster, worth VN475 billion (US$21 million), kicked off on Friday in the northern province of H Nam....

Ministers and leaders of people's committees of cities and provinces nationwide are required to remove difficulties and promote the disbursement of public investment as well as production, business and consumption....

SINGAPORE - Cleaning floors, monitoring pests and other laborious tasks in maintaining facilities such as food centres could soon be done by robots.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Banks, securities firms, technology companies and consumer businesses stood out among best-performing sectors on Friday....

Puregold Channel interface With loyal customers unable to physically visit their favorite Puregold branches as often as before and stay there for as long as they want, the supermarket giant is stepping up its game in the digital world to stay in touch wit...

Two Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) personnel in Quezon City surprised a pregnant woman when they rushed to her house, not to put out a fire but to assist her deliver her child. (Taurus EMS QC Fire Dept./ MANILA BULLETIN) SFO1 Peachy Recato, along with he...

To avoid thinking about the extra hours he was spending in jail, Mr Teo Seng Tiong tried to distract himself as much as possible.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Local police arrested 34 people, among them 9 foreigners, for violating curfew hours and physical distancing guidelines at a rooftop bar in Bgy. Poblacion, Makati on Friday night....

THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares "What's social media abuzz with these days?" That was the question I asked a staff of our public information office in Antipolo City. I wanted to know what netizens are discussing in the virtual platform. Tha...

Vissan JSC has launched its online store chain on Loship app's Lomart services....

The proposal of the Department of Education (DepEd) to do away with the conduct of periodical tests this school year had mixed reactions from stakeholders from the public and private education sectors. The Coordinating Council of Private Educational Assoc...

Israel normalized its relations with two Arab states Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last Tuesday in ceremonies held at the White House in Washington, DC, United States. They are the first Arab nations to establish relations with Israel since E...

KULAI, Sept 19 — A factory owner and an Indonesian worker have been remanded for three days starting today to facilitate investigations into the hoisting of the Malaysian flag upside down at a plastic mould factory at the Senai Industrial Area,......

The Department of Education (DepEd) said that more than 30,000 schools nationwide have conducted their respective simulations or dry runs for blended learning before the Oct. 5 formal school opening. Citing data from DepEd's Readiness Report Updates, ...

A federal judge narrowed Tesla Inc's lawsuit against a former employee it accused of hacking into its computers and leaking proprietary data to a ......

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Saturday, Sept. 19, said that it will "aggressively comply" with the one-meter physical distancing in public transport, adding that it will release guidelines on its implementation. "The President has...

BANGKOK: Protesters took to the streets of Bangkok on Saturday (Sep 19) as a rally expected to draw tens of thousands of people kicked off calling ......

England Women's head coach Phil Neville says he hopes to lead the British team at the Tokyo Olympics next year and expects the Football ......

Magnus Carlsen takes solo lead GM Wesley So and GM Magnus Carlsen (Fischer Random / Nick Barton / File Photo) Grandmaster Wesley So ran into trouble in the first of the two-day blitz part of the 2020 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz tournament to slip from fir...

Lanao del Norte Rep. Mohamad Khalid Dimaporo has filed House Bill No. 7504 seeking the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals Council to ensure that the country's targets in achieving the 17 SDGs are being met and the SDGs in the policies, plan...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) is now ready for the upcoming activities this "ber" months and have laid out security plans to counter possible crimes such as robbery. Police Colonel Jonathan Abella, told CDN D...

KUCHING, Sept 19 Iban war hero Datuk Awang Raweng will be accorded a state funeral on Monday (September 21) and will be laid to rest at the Heroes Memorial in Kuching, said Malaysian Armed Forces Veterans Affairs Department Sarawak director......

Ngayong naglabas ng advisory ang Food and Drug Registration na hindi pala ito rehistrado sa kanilang tanggapan, ligtas pa rin bang kainin ito?...

BAU, Sept 19 The Sarawak government has gazetted over 750,000 hectares as native customary rights land (NCR) under Section 6 of the Sarawak Land Code in the last 10 years, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said today. He said......

BANGKOK (AFP) - Pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of Bangkok Saturday (Sept 19) as a rally expected to draw tens of thousands of people kicked off calling for PM Prayut Chan-o-cha to step down and demanding reforms to the monarchy.. Read more a...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The mayor of Consolacion town recently tested negative for the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The local government of Consolacion, in a statement published on September 18, announced that swab samples from its Mayo...

SEPTEMBER 19 Today we all learnt that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed. A lot of us will be iterating words of mourning. It is a sombre development, for the legal fraternity and for the world at large. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a......

BACOLOD CITY — The Negros Occidental provincial government has ordered the arrest of seven people who refused to undergo a swab test for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) upon their entry in the province. The seven, who considered themselves as...

NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - India's parliament session that began this week is likely to be cut short after 30 lawmakers were found infected with the coronavirus, two senior Parliament officials said, as the number of cases in the country rose to 5.3 millio...

Popular video-sharing app TikTok has asked a U.S. judge to block the Trump administration banning on the Chinese social-media network, Bloomberg ......

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 Veteran lawmaker Lim Kit Siang today continued to press Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to publicly explain the delay in acting against a member of his Perikatan Nasional (PN) Cabinet who broke the mandatory......

TAIPEI: Taiwan's air force scrambled jets for a second consecutive day on Saturday (Sep 19) as multiple Chinese aircraft approached the island and ......

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu A high-value individual was arrested by law enforcers with P1 million worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation along Borja Street in Barangay Poblacion, Tagbilaran City, Bohol late afternoon on Friday, September 18. Operatives o...

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 19 Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today reminded Muslims in the country not to be extremists in spreading their religion. He said Malaysia is a multireligious, multiracial country and moderation should be practised to......

State-owned postal firm PT Pos Indonesia has filed a petition to the Constitutional Court for a judicial review of the postal law that it averred had ......

Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman lauded the adoption by the European Union Parliament of a resolution urging the United Nations to lead "an independent investigation into widespread killings in the Philippines" in connecti...

ALOR SETAR, Sept 19 All Covid-19 screening test samples taken from 56 individuals including Kedah Mentri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor yesterday were confirmed negative. The Kedah Mentri Besar's Office in a statement today announced that the......

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) conducted a simultaneous coastal clean-up along eight waterways and coastal areas in the city in li...

MANILA - Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is offering a free contact tracing training program to help the government build manpower to boost efforts to identify close contacts of COVID-19 patients....

The Department of Education (DepEd) has underscored the need for constant communication among students, parents, teachers, and school officials to avoid parental burnout and stress from distance learning during this pandemic. Education Secretary Leonor Br...

TAIPEI (AFP) - A top US diplomat attended the funeral for former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui on Saturday (Sept 19) which featured a eulogy by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama before wrapping up a visit overshadowed by Chinese military exercises.....