BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago. Move Forward Party's Chonthicha Jangrew, center, arrives at the...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday announced plans to launch a rocket apparently carrying its second military spy satellite by early next week, drawing quick, strong rebukes from neighbors South Korea and Japan. This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Business is good at “the firm.” Lithuanian and European Union flags fly outside the Lithuanian Embassy in Beijing, Dec. 16, 2021. The U.S. State Department has set up an eight-person team known as the "firm" to provide help to countries cut off from Chinese trade. The team...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A cyclone flooded coastal villages and left hundreds of thousands of people without power Monday in southern Bangladesh, where nearly 800,000 residents had evacuated. At least seven deaths were reported. A man salvages a cart and other material as water flows on to the...
The recovered drugs inside the unattended package. (Photo from Pasay police) Members of the Pasay City police discovered suspected flowering tops of marijuana (Kush) and other drug paraphernalia inside an unattended package found at a bus terminal last May 24. Col. Mario Mayames, city police...
The Makati City local government on Monday, May 27, announced the schedule of the Kadiwa ng Pangulo (KNP) program in the city for this year. (Photos from Makati LGU) "Sa pangunguna ng Economic Enterprise Management Office, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) at ng Department of Agriculture (DA),...
Col. Relly B. Arnedo, Bulacan police director, inspects the Search and Rescue (SAR) equipment. (Photo from Bulacan PPO) Col. Relly B. Arnedo, Director of the Bulacan Provincial Police Office (BPPO), assured that the police force is fully prepared and capable of responding...
The suspected drug peddlers and the seized six plastic sachets of shabu worth P68,000 seized from them during a buy-bust operation conducted in Upper Quarry, Barangay Minuyan Proper, City of San Jose Del Monte (CSJDM) last Saturday, May 25, 2024. (Photo courtesy of PDEA Bulacan) A drug den...
A man identified as a high-value drug suspect was arrested by combined law enforcement teams during a buy-bust operation on Sunday, May 26, in Pasay City. The Southern Police District (SPD) said the suspect, identified as alias Noknok, 37, was arrested at around 1:00 p.m. in Barangay 75,...
Photo shows spaghetti wires that pose danger to the community. Following incidents of uprooted electric posts due to jumbled and tangled electrical and telecommunications (telco) cables or "spaghetti wires," the Metro Manila Council (MMC) announced it is considering the issuance of...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670 as emergency responders and traumatized relatives gave up hope that any survivors will now be found. Villagers...
BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced the appointment of its first ambassador to Syria since severing ties with Damascus in 12 years, marking an ongoing thawing in relations since the war-torn country was readmitted to the Arab League over a year ago. Faisal al-Mujfel's appointment as...
