President Marcos, together with other Southeast Asian leaders, enjoyed the best of Japanese hospitality when Prime Minister Fumio Kishida feted them and their spouses at a banquet at the Asakasa Palace in Tokyo on Friday night, Dec. 16. (Front row from left) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet with...
TOKYO, Japan—Proposed economic reforms in the 1987 Constitutions will not be brought up in the forums President Marcos will participate in during his four-day trip here. DTI Secretary Alfredo Pascual (Photo courtesy of PPA Pool/Yummie Dingding)) Although Marcos has confirmed that the government...
​China is seeing nothing wrong with the upcoming talks between leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan as long as the gathering will not target any other country. Beijing believes that cooperation should enhance "mutual trust between countries in the region"...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte will hold office in her hometown of Davao City as government caretaker while President Marcos is in Tokyo this weekend to attend a regional summit. Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte (OVP photo) The Office of the...
President Marcos will leave for Japan on Friday, Dec. 15, to participate in the 50th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-Japan Relations in Tokyo. He will depart in the afternoon and will stay in Japan until Dec. 18. It is the President's second trip to Japan this...
TACLOBAN CITY – The city government of Borongan stepped up its commitment to protect the environment during the first-ever Forest Summit recently. The Borongan Forest Summit called for the conservation of the Samar Island Natural Park where majority of the city’s forestlands belong and sought...
President Marcos will discuss the recent developments in the contested West Philippine Sea with the Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this week, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Monday, Dec. 11. DFA Assistant Secretary Daniel Espiritu speaks to the...
BORONGAN CITY – Surfers and surfing enthusiasts from across the country joined the 2nd National Surfing Summit and Surf City Festival in this city. The National Surf Summit was held from December 2 to 3 alongside the annual Surf City Borongan competition to create a synergistic platform that...
Robinsons Land Corporation announced that Angelo Ascue, Hotel Manager for Summit Hotel Greenhills and Magnolia under Robinsons Hotels and Resorts, has been bestowed with the highly esteemed "Manager of the Year" award at the recently concluded 26th Mabuhay Awards. In a statement, RLC said Ascue is...
ASEAN Business Advisory Council (BAC) Philippines chairperson Joey Concepcion warned about the threats and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) in the country’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, and pushed for upscaling Filipino workers’ skills to keep their jobs. Joey...
Merbau Corporation, the renewable energy (RE) business unit of the Gokongwei-led JG Summit Holdings, Inc., has viably advanced to commercial operation its 13.811-megawatt peak (MWp) solar installation in Batangas City, a project touted as the biggest in the solar rooftop genre that has been...
JG Summit Holdings Inc., the flagship of the Gokongwei Group, is infusing additional capital of up to P11 billion into its wholly-owned subsidiary JG Summit Olefins Corporation (JGSOC). In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm said its board of directors has approved the...
