Manila, Sept. 8 — SINGAPORE – With the robust trade and economic ties between the two countries, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said Singapore is part of the Philippines’ journey in maintaining its political and economic stability in the Southeast Asian region. Marcos said this during the State Luncheon hosted by Singaporean President Halimah Yacob […]
Manila, Sept. 7 — More than 879,000 Filipinos died in 2021, the year which the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) described as the deadliest in Philippine history. Undersecretary Juan Antonio Perez III, PopCom executive director, said a total of 879,429 deaths were reported by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) last year and this translated […]
Manila, Sept. 7 — LONDON, United Kingdom – The leading cabinet lieutenants of Britain’s Liz Truss, the third woman prime minister, share her right-wing ideology. They are all also people of colour. For the first time in UK history, no white men will occupy any of the four “great offices of state”: prime minister, Treasury, […]
Manila, Sept. 6 — Ye, formerly Kanye West, is known to vent out his feelings online. Whether matters of love or business, he makes sure everyone knows what’s happening. If you haven’t been keeping up, here’s the 411 on the new conundrum between him and his collaborators. A couple of days ago, the musician posted […]
Manila, Sept. 6 — BEIJING, China – Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out rescue efforts to minimize casualties after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Monday, stressing that saving lives should be taken as the primary task. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and […]
Manila, Sept. 5 — LISBON, Portugal – The Catholic Church must show “zero tolerance” to sexual assault by members of the clergy, Pope Francis said in excerpts of an interview with a Portuguese television channel broadcast Sunday. “It’s very clear. It’s zero tolerance,” he told TVI/CNN Portugal in an interview, extracts of which were published […]
Manila, Sept. 4 — In the 70th year of Miss Universe, pageant fanatics voted for the coronation of Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach in 2015 as the top Miss Universe crowning moment of all time. “We asked, you answered! Here are the top 5 crowning moments of all time chosen by YOU!” the caption wrote as the […]
Manila– PARIS, France – It could be raining diamonds on planets throughout the universe, scientists suggested Friday, after using common plastic to recreate the strange precipitation believed to form deep inside Uranus and Neptune. Scientists had previously theorised that extremely high pressure and temperatures turn hydrogen and carbon into solid diamonds thousands of kilometres below […]
Manila, Sept. 2 — HOUSTON, United States – A four-year-old in Texas brought a loaded handgun to school, officials said, as the end of summer vacation in America reignites fears of school shootings. The scare on Wednesday in Corpus Christi came two days after a similar incident in Arizona, that time involving a child aged […]
