South East Asia

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. plans to hold several bilateral meetings with other heads of state on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. In an online media forum Monday, Philippine Ambassador t...

The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) launched a hospital assistance ship christened KRI Dr. Radjiman Wedyodiningrat-992 here on Monday."Starting next ......

OSLO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said while there was room for a European-level debate on banning Russian tourists, it was important not to make life harder for Kremlin opponents to flee Russia....

the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Task Force (SKK Migas).This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title "Indonesia again misses ......

Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles has tested positive for COVID-19, as well as Chairman Carlo Dimayuga III of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. "I had a swab test yesterday and the result came out this morning. I tested positive for COV...

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. met with members of the Philippine Chamber of Food Manufacturers Inc. in Malacaang on Monday to tackle concerns over the sugar supply in the country. "We want the smooth ope...

The Senate on Monday elected nine more senators to sit as members of the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA), joining Senators Cynthia Villar, Christopher Go, and Francis Tolentino in scrutinizing the appointments made by President Ferdinand Marcos J...

The COVID-19 Handling Task Force has said that awareness among public space managers about the implementation of health protocols has declined even amid an ......

CHICAGO : R&B singer R. Kelly's latest federal trial began on Monday with the selection of a jury to hear charges that he lured underage women into having sex with him and obstructed a 2008 state case that ended with his acquittal.In a U.S. district c...

Only five days back, Land Transportation chief Teofilo Guadiz issued a memorandum directing the head of the LTO Management Information Division to disconnect the access of local government units and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority to the ala...

GENEVA: The Red Cross on Monday (Aug 15) appealed to states and donors to set aside their political objections to the Taliban and resume aid flows to Afghanistan's state institutions to ease an...

"If there's one thing that President Marcos must show to the people this early, within the first 100 days of his administration, is that he has zero tolerance to graft and corruption, and that whoever will try to pull an anomaly cannot get away wi...

ANKARA, Aug 15 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong......

Former Philippine agriculture chief Domingo Panganiban replaced Leocadio Sebastian, the undersecretary who recently resigned over a sugar importation controversy....

REFLECTIONS TODAY In the prior episode leading to today's Gospel, a rich young man approaches Jesus and asks him, "Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?" (Mt 19:16). This is the same as asking, "What good must I do to enter th...

MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Da nerve, da nerve, da nerve, da nerve! Yes, repeated four times, once in behalf of each sector that was stabbed in the back by that patently illegal and treacherous order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar, those targeted s...

"The French-Philippine connection dates back much earlier through historic interactions among our nationals," said Michle Boccoz, French ambassador to the Philippines, at the launch of the yearlong celebration of the diamond jubilee of diplomatic ...

UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymund W. Lo As a follow up to my previous column (Loco over local 8/9/22), I've been reflecting on what constitutes a national identity. As a nation having a long colonial history (as writer Carmen Guerrero Nakpil has said, ...

FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina A grateful nation was overwhelmed with grief over the news that the legendary Lydia de Vega-Mercado passed away last Wednesday. With the outpouring of accolades and tributes that followed, it was obvious how ...

TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim Last week, we talked about the emergence of artificial intelligence or AI, how it is beginning to play an important role in our lives and economy and how it is already having an impact on our world in many different ways. There ...

Monkeypox, Centaurus, and the future of the pandemic CLINICAL MATTERS As an infectious diseases doctor, I know the names of hundreds of pathogens that can kill you in many horrible ways. From brain-eating amoeba to a virus that liquefies your internal org...

"The logical consequence therefore is that President Marcos is a de jure President of the Republic of the Philippines" In an original petition for prohibition, petitioners Benigno Aquino Jr. et al. sought to nullify Presidential Decrees 1366, 1366...

Youth and Sports Minister Zainudin Amali has expressed the hope that meeting President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will bolster the spirit of the U-16 national ......

"There are doubts the influx of Ukrainians — mainly women and children — who fled Russia's invasion of their homeland for Poland is enough to 'reverse the population decline'" By Nell Saignes The billboards are hard to miss...