The Senate has ratified the Phlippines’ Status of Visiting Forces Agreements (SOVFA) with Canada and New Zealand. The approval of the defense pacts was finalized during the Senate’s plenary session last Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. The Senate concurred in the ratification of the two SOVFAs through...
The Department of National Defense (DND) on Wednesday, Aug. 12, welcomed the Senate 's approval of agreements that will set the rules for military personnel from Canada and New Zealand joining exercises, training and disaster response activities in the Philippines. The DND said Senate...
NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James will visit the New York Knicks on opening night and the Los Angeles Lakers on Christmas. James ' arrival in Philadelphia has made the 76ers must-see TV, and they are all over the NBA 's biggest days of the season. James will make his 76ers debut against the...
The long-delayed ₱2.5-billion information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure project in New Clark City may have found new life, as Converge ICT Solutions Inc. looks to participate in the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) hub. Converge Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...
The country’s electronics sector is pushing for reforms to position the Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) industrial hub in New Clark City as a launchpad to strengthen its role in the global supply chain for emerging technologies. In a position paper, the Semiconductor and Electronics...
AREIT Inc., the real estate investment trust sponsored by Ayala Land Inc., agreed to acquire three hotels and four shopping malls from its parent developer in a transaction valued at ₱19.95 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, AREIT said the property injection consists of a...
NEW YORK (AP) — “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” continued its blistering pace in theaters, collecting $144.5 million domestically over its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” set a new high for the director. The Sony-Marvel release...
Even with weaker-than-expected economic growth in the second quarter and expectations of muted expansion for the year, Japanese investment bank Nomura Holdings Inc. expects the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to continue raising key borrowing costs to bring inflation back to its three percent...
For a moment, Vice Ganda 's absence from “It’s Showtime” had people wondering if something bigger was happening behind the scenes. Was the superstar comedian simply taking another break, or was his time with ABS-CBN quietly coming to an end? Those questions gained traction after Vice...
NEW CLARK CITY — The Philippines stands to generate an additional $200 billion in export revenue from the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) hub in New Clark City within 30 years from the start of development, or as early as 2058. Based on estimates from state-run Bases Conversion...
NEW CLARK CITY — State-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has dispelled assumptions that hyperscale data centers, whose energy requirements are enough to power as many as 100,000 households, would be constructed under the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI)...
New York City will always mean different things for a returning, visiting Filipino. My last time in Manhattan was two years ago, but that was in early March, for work, during a cold late-winter spell. This time it was glorious summer in late July, and for me, New York is primarily about the...
