Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
An elephant that had been forced to carry people on its back for 15 years in Cambodia’s tourism industry has collapsed and died after transporting two tourists on its back in blistering heat. Facebook User Yem Senok posted pictures of the collapsed elephant, an elderly female one known as Sambo. Reports say Sambo collapsed on the roadside while carrying two tourists to an ancient Cambodian Temple in Angkor Wat near Bakheng Mountain. According to the […]
Chinese and Indonesian officials pledged to boost security ties, marine cooperation and infrastructure investment, after a diplomatic spat over what Indonesia called a breach of its sovereignty by the Chinese coastguard. According to a report from the official Xinhua News Agency, the two countries will strengthen defense ties including anti-terrorism, law enforcement, curbing narcotics, as well as “marine cooperation”. The report added that Jakarta and Beijing will also work together in the fields of railway, […]
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Cynthia Villar is convinced that one of the areas that would give the country an advantage over its ASEAN neighbors is the area of organic agriculture. During the 16th National Convention cum Seminar/Workshop of the League of Municipal Agricultural Officers, Municipal/City Agriculturists of the Philippines (LeMMCAP) in Pasay City recently, Villar said this competitive edge should be enhanced especially now that the implementation of the regional economic integration under the ASEAN […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – A Japanese warship sailed the West Philippine Sea and docked at the Subic Bay. According to Captain Masaki Takada, said Japanese naval vessel is under a navigational training mission. This is the second time that a ship of the Japanese navy arrived at Subic Bay. Said act of Japan is seen as a sign of the deepening defense relationship of the Philippines and Japan. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul […]
The Philippine government, through the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), is hosting this year’s 41st Senior Transport Officials Meeting (STOM). According to the DOTC, around 120 senior transport officials and delegates from the 10-Member States and from the Dialogue Partners will meet until Thursday, 28 April 2016 to discuss the status of various transportation projects and policy measures that will enhance regional cohesion. The transport sector will also embark on new projects and programs […]
YANGON ,Myanmar (AFP) — Two German travellers and their local guide were wounded by shrapnel from a landmine in north Myanmar, close to an area of recent heavy fighting between ethnic minority rebel groups, officials said Wednesday. The pair, both 24, were taken to hospital in Myanmar’s second largest city Mandalay late Tuesday evening after sustaining injuries earlier in the day when they triggered the mine near rural Kyaukme township in war-torn northern Shan State. […]
(Reuters) China is getting closer to building maritime nuclear power platforms that could one day to used to support Chinese projects in the disputed South China Sea, a widely-read state-run newspaper said on Friday. China has rattled nerves with its military and construction activities on the islands it occupies in the South China Sea, including building runways, though Beijing says most of what it is building is for civilian purposes, like lighthouses. The Global Times, […]
The United States military is betting on a new technology to help retain its edge as china build up its presence in the South China Sea, one reclaimed island at a time. During the past six months, the pentagon has started to talk publicly about a once-secret program to develop unmanned undersea vehicles, the term given to the submarine drones that are becoming part of its plan to deter China from trying to dominate the […]
Indonesia has called for joint maritime patrols with the Philippines and Malaysia, after a spate of kidnappings in waters near the southern Philippines by suspected militants. Around 14 Indonesians and four Malaysians have been abducted in recent weeks by groups with suspected links to Abu Sayyaf bandits. Indonesian military spokesman Tatang Sulaiman they are trying to set up cooperation on coordinated patrols between Malaysia and the Philippines, adding Indonesia had already sent two warships to […]
Dismissed Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation or RCBC branch manager Maia Santos Deguito admitted to the senate blue ribbon committee that she lied in her reply to the bank’s show cause memo. Deguito, alleged facilitator of the transfer of the 81-million dollar that suspiciously went through the country’s financial system including local casinos to five accounts in her branch on Jupiter Street in Makati City, said it was casino junket operator Kim Wong who instructed her […]
by Athens Zaw Zaw YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Witnesses to a boat capsize that left some 20 people dead, including children, say the victims were from the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority and blamed the tragedy on travel restrictions that forced them to journey by sea. At least 21 people, including nine children, died after a packed boat capsized in choppy waters on Tuesday as it approached the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe, according to the […]
Video courtesy: COURTESY SITE INTEL GROUP / Reuters (REUTERS) Islamist militants in the Philippines announce a new deadline of April 25 for the execution of three foreign captives and a Filipino, but scale back their ransom demand in a video posted on social media.
