EDITORS DESK Johannes Chua I have a confession to make – in my four decades as a citizen of this country, I have never voted. There is no rhyme or reason why; maybe, I was just lazy or I just didn’t care. So I was so surprised when I found myself one afternoon at my district’s COMELEC office...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan's next leader Fumio Kishida is a soft-spoken former foreign minister from a Hiroshima family of politicians, with a reputation of seeking the middle ground and a fondness for baseball. Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Policy Research Council's chairman Fumio Kishida (AFP/File)...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan's ruling party picks its new leader Wednesday, with a mild-mannered former foreign minister and the Twitter-savvy vaccine chief leading the race to become the country's next prime minister. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is going to the polls with Prime Minister Yoshihide...
CIFIT PLDT Darren Wu The Philippines is the next strategic hyperscaler destination in Asia, according to an official of PLDT Inc. The country is already getting the attention of global cloud companies for prospective investments in the near to short term, said PLDT Territory Head for China and Asia...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The EU's drug watchdog said Thursday it expected to decide in early October whether to approve boosters of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for over 16s. Pfizer vaccines (AFP/File) A decision on further jabs of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for at-risk people...
The least the next administration can do in connection with President Duterte's case with the International Criminal Court (ICC) is to let a potential investigation take place in an "unhampered" manner. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP photo) Vice President Leni Robredo had this to say during an...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) today ( (Sept. 1) announced that the first batch of trains for its MRT-7 project will arrive from South Korea next week, with the entire railway slated to be finished in 2022. SMC-MRT2 The trains, which consist of six cars or two trainsets procured from Hyundai ROTEM,...
In the closing stretch of his presidency, President Duterte has pledged to support his successor and pray for the next leader's success in pursuing programs that will further improve the lives of Filipinos. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his sixth and final State of the Nation Address before a...
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. disclosed Wednesday, July 21, that the successor of President Duterte should continue the operations of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to sustain the gains in putting an end into the 52-year-long insurgency...
A new batch of 28 editors and journalists from 19 publications in 11 countries across Asia are now participating in a leadership program that aims to nurture the next generation of media leaders who are committed to shaping the regional future. The program is the The Young Media Leaders Fellowship...
Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian is inclined to believe that what happened to the factory worker who received his P1,056 salary in coins was done deliberately to "torment" the worker for raising his concerns against his company's alleged unfair labor practices. Gatchalian on Tuesday vowed that...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched the Philippines’ first solar-powered on-farm cold storage demo unit in collaboration with Filipino firm Next Agri Corporation Philippines and Indian firm Ecozen Solutions Private Ltd. On Friday, Agriculture Secretary William Dar led the inauguration...
