Amid a Trump-led global trade war looming on the horizon, the Philippines sourced more products from China while it exported more goods to the United States at the start of 2025. Preliminary Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data on Friday, Feb. 28, showed that the value of the Philippines'...
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to offer a "gold card" visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a...
After announcing the exemption of the United States military aid to the Philippines from the global aid freeze by the Trump administration, Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez said that they are now working on continued health and education assistance from its...
With funding for the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) frozen by US President Donald J. Trump for three months, China and Japan are expected to step up as development partners for Asia-Pacific countries' development partners and expand their influence in the region,...
President Donald Trump arrives to greet Marc Fogel at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump upended three years of U.S. policy toward Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin had...
The Philippines expressed optimism after the success of the first meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, saying that it “bodes well for the realization of our shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific.” (From left) Japanese Prime...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes....
Senator Loren Legarda on Friday, February 7 expressed serious condemnation of United States President Donald Trump’s alarming proposal to “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip, along with the relocation of its Palestinian residents to neighboring countries such as Jordan and Egypt, saying...
A crane offloads a piece of wreckage from a salvage vessel onto a flatbed truck, near the wreckage site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Arlington, Va....
President Donald Trump meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the...
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo and United States Embassy spokesperson Kanishka Gangopadhyay declined to comment on the reported abolition of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the recall of their personnel from foreign posts. A...
Over the weekend, new US President, Donald Trump, announced he would impose tariffs on goods from countries like Mexico, Canada and China. These were part of his long-promised economic policy during his campaign and were put into effect early this week. Many experts and economists have argued that...
