At a Glance This renewed Malampaya’s production contract for its final 15 years. It was supposed to expire on Feb. 24, 2024. The SC 38 Consortium must conduct a minimum work program consisting of geological and geophysical studies and the drilling of at least two deep water wells during Sub-Phase …
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Dela Rosa ends Senate hearing on Degamo killing
Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa has ended the Senate inquiry on the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo and eight others after getting the testimonies of 80 persons from the province. Dela Rosa presided over five hearings conducted by the Senate Committee on Public Order and Illegal Drugs which …
Read More »PH marks 5 WPS territories
PCG: Sovereign markers at critical areas show resolve to protect waters ASEAN’S NAVIES. Marine Brig. Gen. Edwin Amadar (inset), Fleet Marine Ready Force Commander of the Philippine Navy, delivers his opening address as the country hosts navies from across Southeast Asia—symbolized by their commanders linking arms—for the second ASEAN Multilateral …
Read More »Hospitals, biz brace for COVID-19 upsurge
The country logged over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases for the third straight day on Sunday as government hospitals braced for an uptick of cases owing to the local transmission of the Arcturus variant. In-person classes at a school in Cabatuan, Isabela province are also suspended this week after over a …
Read More »Keeping the world’s democracies inside the western tent is a challenge for the G7, experts say
While the topic might not be on the formal, written agenda, or in any of the many programs and sideshows, foreign policy experts say the desire to keep the world’s non-aligned democracies firmly within the western tent will be a preoccupation of G7 leaders when they meet at the end …
Read More »Chinese vice premier pushes brand building
BRAND MATTERS Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, addresses the International Forum on China Brand Development, part of the ongoing 2023 China Brand Day events, in east China’s Shanghai on Saturday, May 13, …
Read More »Fired exec at TikTok parent firm sues
LEGAL ACTION The logo of TikTok is seen on a smartphone screen in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, Aug. 30, 2020. A former US-based executive of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, has sued it for wrongful dismissal, saying he was fired for sounding the alarm over what he …
Read More »Head of international atomic energy agency warns of ‘enormous suffering’ if Ukrainian plant fails
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he’s alarmed by the threat of a nuclear accident at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant. Rafael Mariano Grossi says a nuclear accident would have ‘ripples and reverberations all over the world’. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency …
Read More »Mother’s Day: Honoring the women who make it happen
In the Philippines and in many countries around the world, no one needs to be reminded that today is Mother’s Day. It’s not only the love and devotion Filipinos have for their mothers, commerce has made sure everyone knows Mother’s Day is special and needs to be celebrated with a …
Read More »PBBM: Assist ‘comfort women’ in filing claims
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered concerned government agencies to extend aid and assistance to the case of the “Malaya Lolas” – a group of victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial army during World War II. The President made the statement following a report of the UN Convention on …
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