China conducted military “combat patrols” Sunday in the disputed South China Sea, its army said, the same day as joint drills by the Philippines, the United States, Japan and Australia. Issued on: 07/04/2024 – 13:01 2 min The announcement comes one day after defence chiefs from four countries including the Philippines — which has been …
Senior players Duncan Reid and Leung Shiu-wah will have their work cut out leading a side who include just four of the team that played in last year’s Asian Games. The Philippines team will include naturalised player Justin Brownlee. Photo: PBA Officials had stated that any players wishing to don the city’s jersey in the …
Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. just laughed off allegations that he’s a user of illegal drugs—a charge recently leveled at him by his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte. “I think it’s the fentanyl,” Marcos, 66, told local reporters on Monday, turning the accusation back on Duterte. “After five, six years, it has to affect him; that’s …
Perhaps the biggest indicator that Siargao is on the mend, though, is the reopening of Nay Palad Hideaway, which, after more than a decade in business, is still the island’s smartest place to stay. A community of curving thatched roofs spread out between tangled mangroves and a palm-pinned beach, it has everything you’d hope to …
Jakarta, Indonesia – For more than a decade, Mary Jane Veloso has been held in a prison in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta awaiting execution after being found guilty of drug trafficking. This year, her family got to see her for the first time in five years. “Mary Jane has been here in Indonesia for …
China has warned the Philippines that it “must act with caution”, Beijing’s foreign ministry said, following a string of incidents in the disputed South China Sea as Manila increasingly stands up to Chinese assertiveness in the region. Issued on: 21/12/2023 – 05:12 2 min Videos released by the Philippine Coast Guard showed Chinese ships blasting …
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration. In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, …
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, An earthquake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck Mindanao in the southern Philippines, triggering evacuation orders. Tsunami waves of 40 cm (1.3 feet) have been observed on Japan’s Hachijojima island, some 290km (180 miles) south of Tokyo, after a major earthquake in the Philippines, says the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency earlier …
Saturday, December 2, 2023 4:00PM Este artículo se ofrece en Español MANILA, Philippines — A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday night off the coast of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and Philippine authorities issued a tsunami warning. The quake struck at 10:37 p.m. at a depth of 32 kilometers …
Leila de Lima is no longer in prison. And Rodrigo Duterte, the man she holds responsible for her incarceration, is no longer President. It feels like the end of an era for the Philippines—or perhaps the start of a new one. “We’re tied now,” de Lima told TIME in Tagalog on Thursday from her home …