Rescue and repatriation efforts are being initiated by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for all Filipinos allegedly trapped in different scam centers in Southeast Asia. The DFA revealed that it continues to receive reports of alleged Filipino human trafficking victims (HTVs) in Thailand,...
CEBU CITY – The Brembo Southeast Asia Customer Conference kicked off in Lapu-Lapu City on Tuesday, July 15, the first time that the annual event is hosted by the country. Brembo, a renowned Italian brake systems manufacturer, gathered regional distributors and leadership team in Cebu to present...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. expressed doubts on China’s intent to lead the signing of a treaty that establishes a nuclear weapon-free Southeast Asia. Teodoro said that China should show its sincerity first by denuclearizing its country and be subjected to...
The Philippines and Canada have officially assumed co-chairmanship of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Southeast Asia Regional Program (SEARP), succeeding Vietnam and Australia during the OECD ministerial council meeting held in Paris, France. In a statement on...
SM Investments Corporation (SM Investments), the flagship of the Sy family’s SM group, has been cited again for its excellence in corporate governance, coming out as the top Philippine company in the 15th Annual Institutional Investor Poll conducted by Hong Kong-based Alpha Southeast Asia...
The Sy siblings' SM Investments Corporation (SMIC), one of the Philippines' leading conglomerates, bagged the top spot in two categories in the recently concluded 13th Institutional Investor Corporate Awards by Alpha Southeast Asia magazine. During the event, SMIC was recognized as still the...
Universal Robina Corp. (URC), the food and beverage unit of the Gokongwei Group, has been named as one of the Philippines’ best-managed companies in a survey of hundreds of investors, brokers and analysts across Southeast Asia. The company was cited for its “strongest adherence to corporate...
BACOLOD CITY (PNA) – The Philippine men’s and women’s tchoukball teams, all based in this city, placed third in their respective divisions in the 2023 Southeast Asia Tchoukball Championships at the ActiveSG Pasir Ris Sport Centre in Singapore. THE Bacolod-based Philippine men’s and women’s...
BACOLOD CITY – Tchoukball athletes from this city will represent the country in the Southeast Asia Tchoukball Championship 2023 in Singapore from July 17 to 18. The Bacolod-based Tchoukball Philippine Team met Mayor Alfredo “Albee” Benitez before they flew to Singapore. The team initially...
Benedict “BennyQt” Gonzales took over with perfect showings in the last two games as ECHO sent Todak packing with a 3-1 victory in the quarterfinals of the MLBB Southeast Asia Cup at the Aeon Mall Mean Chey in Phnom Penh in Cambodia on Friday, June 16. *Benedict "BennyQt" Gonzales shows...
Even after a series of dominant performances in the group stage and the quarterfinals of the MLBB Southeast Asia Cup, Blacklist International is not thinking too far ahead – more so being content with what it has shown so far in the regional tiff. *Blacklist International head coach Aniel "Master...
ILOILO CITY – A solar-powered drip irrigation system project by Grade 8 students of the University of the Philippines High School in Iloilo (UPHSI) was among the 30 winners of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Regional Centre for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics...
