The Philippines and China will establish direct communication between their foreign ministries to avoid “miscalculation and miscommunication” in the hotly disputed South China Sea, Manila said Thursday.
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday oversaw the commissioning of several new warships and a nuclear-powered submarine as he vowed to further strengthen Russia’s navy.
Former pope Benedict XVI is “lucid and alert” and his condition remains serious but stable, the Vatican said Thursday, the day after revealing the 95-year-old’s health had deteriorated.
Smart, Globe and Dito Telecommunity have 60 days to put up centers in remote areas of the country where there’s no internet access so subscribers can register their SIM cards.
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday called on the Department of Agriculture (DA) to expedite the harvest and direct purchase of locally-grown onions for delivery to Metro Manila using the PHP140-million fund from the 2021 national budget which was realigned for DA’s Food Mobilization Program this year.
The first two days of the mandatory SIM card registration saw over 3 million successfully registered across all three telecommunications firms.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said Thursday the government should tap more students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and develop them as future technology specialists who could fill in the country’s shortage of cyber security experts.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has named lawyer Richard Santos Clarin as chairperson of the Games and Amusement Board (GAB).
The Philippines is set to sign 10 to 14 bilateral agreements with China during the state visit of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to Beijing from Jan. 3 to 5, 2023, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday.
The Department of Health (DOH) sees no need to restrict travelers coming from China, which currently faces an outbreak of Omicron subvariant BF.7 that is driving a surge in its coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases.
