COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is considering exporting up to 100,000 endangered monkeys to China, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, raising concerns among conservationists. The toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island but is classed as endangered on...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. extended his support to the hosting of FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 and the Philippine Sports Commission-led Task Force by calling a meeting Wednesday, April 12 at the Malacañang Conference Room in Manila. *Deputy Senior Executive Secretary Hubert...
ORIGAMI HEARTS - Origami hearts are displayed at the complex of the famed Angkor Archeological Park in Siem Reap province, Cambodia on April 11, 2023. (Xinhua) SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- Cambodia's display of origami hearts was included in the Guinness Book of Records on Tuesday as the...
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund slightly lowered its outlook for the global economy on Tuesday, while predicting that most countries will avoid a recession this year despite economic worries and geopolitical strains. Concerns over high inflation, rising...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Doctors working in England's public health service on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the most disruptive strike in its history, in a dispute over pay and working conditions. The four-day walkout, which began at 7:00 am (0600 GMT), follows months of strikes...
MARSEILLE, France - Rescuers were on Tuesday searching rubble in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille for two people still missing after a deadly building collapse two days before, while investigators probed the cause of the tragedy. Crews have recovered the remains of six people from...
MOSCOW, Russia - The head of Russia's FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukraine and the West of recruiting young Russians to stage armed attacks in their home country. The accusation by security chief Alexander Bortnikov comes a week after President Vladimir Putin accused the West...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Denmark's defence minister said Tuesday he expected the Danes and allies to decide on whether to donate Western fighter jets to Ukraine "before the summer", as deliveries of Polish and Slovak MiG-29s have begun. Discussions are taking time because countries have to act...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - An attempt by three Uzbek terrorism suspects to escape from an Indonesian detention centre left an immigration officer and one of the men dead, police said Tuesday, with the surviving suspects rearrested. The men were originally arrested by Indonesian authorities earlier...
BANGKOK, Thailand - Dozens of people in coup-hit Myanmar's central region were killed in air strikes Tuesday, according to local media reports and a witness contacted by AFP. The country has been in chaos and its economy in tatters since the military seized power in February 2021. The...
Rowena Guanzon (Facebook) P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon hailed during the observance of "Araw ng Kagitingan" (Day of Valor) on Monday, April 10 the second oldest living Filipino World War II (WWII) veteran. And this indomitable veteran just happens to be a woman....
The Marcos administration's economic team will be in the United States (US) this week to paint a resilient, fast-growing, open, united, and politically stable Philippines on the sidelines of the World Bank-International Monetary Funk (WB-IMF) Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. *Malacañang photo*...
