The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has extended a special invitation to students and teachers to show their unwavering support for the Philippine basketball team throughout the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. CHED / MB Visual Content Group On behalf of CHED, Chairman Popoy De Vera has called...
The Department of Health (DOH) along with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) discussed plans to boost the country's child immunization rate during a stakeholder summit on Thursday, Aug. 17. (Photo courtesy of DOH/Manila Bulletin) There during...
MONTREAL (AFP) -- Canada's Basketball World Cup hopes have suffered a major blow with guard Jamal Murray, who helped the Denver Nuggets win the NBA title in June, pulling out of the event, saying his body needs more time to recover. Canada's Jamal Murray. (AFP) Murray averaged 21.4 points, 6.2...
SYDNEY (AFP) -- The buoyant mood across Australia abruptly burst on Wednesday, Aug. 16, when the nation was knocked out in the semifinals of the Women's World Cup by archrivals England. Australia's players react at the end of the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup semifinal football...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will visit Hawaii next week after the deadliest US wildfire in over a century killed more than 100 people there, the White House said Wednesday. Biden and the first lady on Monday will "meet with first responders, survivors, as...
SYDNEY (AFP) -- Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo did the damage late on in Sydney as England shattered Australian dreams on Wednesday, Aug. 16, with a clinical 3-1 win to set up a Women's World Cup final against Spain. England's players celebrate after winning the Australia and New Zealand 2023...
WASHINGTON, United States - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated Tuesday that any greater relationship with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers was contingent on improving treatment of women, two years after the movement toppled the US-backed government. No country has recognized the Taliban...
YANGON, Myanmar - The death toll from a landslide at an unregulated jade mine in a remote part of Myanmar has hit at least 31, with eight people still missing, rescuers said Wednesday. The disaster struck on Sunday outside northern Kachin's Hpakant township, after torrential rain and floods ravaged...
SYDNEY, Australia - A man in Australia who sent his faeces and urine to Hollywood actors Leonardo Di Caprio and Jared Leto was sentenced on Wednesday to a two-year good-behaviour bond. Veronica Grey sent parcels from post offices around the state of Western Australia in February, a court in the...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Wednesday the first cargo ship to use new Black Sea shipping lanes had exited a southern port despite threats from Russia that its navy could target vessels leaving the country. Kyiv announced the maritime corridors for civilian vessels last week after Russia exited an...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's FSB security service said Wednesday it had "eliminated" a group of four Ukrainian fighters who tried to cross into Russia's western Bryansk region from northern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. The announcement came a day after Moscow said it had prevented...
To welcome the world’s biggest basketball tournament, Smart has transformed the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Ball into a giant basketball with a hoop, considered as one of the most awe-inspiring, larger-than-life basketball tributes the country has ever seen. The MOA Ball is the latest installation from...