SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has lifted a mask mandate and eased other virus restrictions, state media said Saturday, days after leader Kim Jong Un declared "victory" over Covid-19. The announcement comes after Pyongyang earlier this week blamed Seoul for causing the Covid-19 outbreak in the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday expressed his "clear commitment" to North Korea's denuclearisation during his visit to Seoul, weeks after Pyongyang said it was "ready to mobilise" its nuclear deterrent. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- Footprints laid down by Ice Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a US desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants. This handout image released by Dr. Daron Duke, an archaeologist from Far Western Anthropological Research...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Skirmishes erupted between two armed groups of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Pikit, North Cotabato Wednesday, August 10, sending some 50 families scampering to safer areas. “There were evacuees but many stayed with their relatives in nearby communities,”...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Saturday slammed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her recent visit to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, calling her the "worst destroyer of international peace". In this handout photo from the Speakers Office, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea reported zero fever cases Friday for a seventh straight day, state media said, adding that everyone who had fallen sick since the country confirmed its first Covid-19 infections had recovered. The isolated country, which has maintained a rigid coronavirus blockade...
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Wednesday slammed what it called the United States' "impudent interference" in China's internal affairs over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, state media reported. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (AFP/File) Pelosi, second in line to the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea reported zero fever cases on Saturday for the first time in more than two months since it confirmed its first Covid-19 infections in May. "There were no new fever patients reported" over a 24-hour period from Thursday evening, the state-run Korean Central News...
In line with the Filipino spirit of giving and its mantra of "Finance for All," Philippine mobile wallet, GCash, has set up a donation drive to quickly help raise funds for the relief and recovery operations in areas devastated by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in North Luzon. GCash is encouraging its...
The national government must enforce a price freeze on essential goods in areas declared to be under a state of calamity in the wake of the magnitude 7 earthquake that shook northern Luzon on Wednesday. (Eduardo Soares/ Unsplash) Thus, said Pinuno Party-list Rep. Howard Guintu who cited a provision...
A groundbreaking ceremony was held last June 30, 2022 to inaugurate a 100-hectare mixed-use district, which will be co-developed by Federal Land, Inc., SM Prime Holdings, Inc., and SMDC. This will be the first phase of Riverpark North, a vibrant new masterplanned township in General Trias,...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country was "ready to mobilise" its nuclear deterrent in any future military clash with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday. This picture taken on July 27, 2022 and released by North Korea's official Korean...
