South East Asia

BERLIN German carmaker Audi is planning an electric car factory in the United States to take advantage of the subsidies offered through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Chief Executive Markus Duesmann told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines renewed its call for Russia and Ukraine to settle their conflict in a diplomatic way. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) made the remark on Friday, marking the first anniversary of the war between Russia an...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Rep. Eduardo "Edu" Rama Jr. (Cebu City Second District) has proposed a bill requiring the inclusion of Entrepreneurship as a separate subject in the junior and senior high school curricula. The congressman filed his ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is not a "magic pill" that will solve the country's problems, especially in the agriculture sector, but the Philippines could not also be like a "...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines' current human rights state is "better" than that of President Rodrigo Duterte's term, European Parliament (EP) member Hannah Neumann said on Friday. In a press briefing, the EP was asked how the...

SINGAPORE U.S streaming giant Netflix Inc is making preparations to open an office in Vietnam after years of negotiations with authorities and completing a risk assessment, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. A local office would make Netflix t...

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TAGBILARAN CITY, BOHOL — The stage is set for the biggest bout in the local boxing scene as Regie "Filipino" Suganob and Mark "Rasta Mac" Vicelles collides for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world light flyweight title on ...

SHANGHAI -China on Friday moved to further strengthen its oversight of data, issuing a contract that smaller firms will be required to sign should they want to send user information abroad. Beijing has in recent years issued new cybersecurity, data and pr...

BERLIN -The German economy contracted more strongly than expected in the final three months of 2022, as inflation and the energy crisis took their toll on household consumption and capital investment. The German economy shrank by 0.4 percent in the fourth...

MANILA, Philippines — The 25th of February this year, which marks the 37th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution, is a regular working day after President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. moved the holiday on Feb. 24, Malacaang clar...

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia on Friday unveiled a scaled-back spending plan for the year despite a sharply slowing economy as Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim focuses on narrowing the budget deficit. Three months into the job, Anwar is having to balance fiscal prude...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Days before the scheduled ceremonial groundbreaking of the much-delayed Cebu Bus Rapid Transit Project (BRT), Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama reiterated his "wish" for former Mayor Tomas Osmea to attend the event. "...

BEIJING China, the world's largest bilateral creditor, urged G20 nations on Friday to conduct a fair, objective and in-depth analysis of the causes of global debt issues and to "resolve the problem in a comprehensive and effective manner." Liu...

BENGALURU U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that U.S. inflation was coming down but there was still more work to do to bring it in line with the Federal Reserve's 2 percent annual target. Yellen also told reporters on the sidelines o...

West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. is targeting to reduce water losses by 162 million liters per day(MLD) in 2023. This volume recovery—equivalent to filling up 73 Olympic-size swimming pools daily—is enough to supply the wa...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — "Let's build trust." Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama emphasized this during his speech at the Plaza Sugbo grounds where the city held an activity to commemorate its 86th Charter Day. Rama encouraged Cebuanos to trus...

NEW YORK South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co on Friday told shareholders that it would divest its controlling stake in a major Alabama auto parts plant where Reuters last year documented children as young as 12 were working. In a Feb. 24 letter to sha...

DETROIT Elon Musk will confront a critical challenge during Tesla's Investor Day on March 1: Convincing investors that even though rivals are catching up, the electric-vehicle pioneer can make another leap forward to widen its lead. Tesla Inc was the ...

Luka Doncic scored 28 points and dished out 10 assists in three quarters of play and Kyrie Irving added 23 points as the Dallas Mavericks swamped the hapless San Antonio Spurs 142-116 on Thursday to snap a three-game losing streak.It was just the third ga...

BENGALURU Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged global financial leaders to focus on the world's "most vulnerable citizens" as he inaugurated a G20 meeting on Friday, the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Indian le...

MANILA, Philippines The Philippines and the United Kingdom are looking for ways to boost and formalize cooperation on projects concerning arts, sustainability and English as a second language (ESL). The Department of Tourism (DOT) said Friday that this wa...

James Harden had 31 points, seven rebounds and seven assists, Joel Embiid threw down a clutch dunk with 23.3 seconds left and the host Philadelphia 76ers rallied from a 17-point deficit for a 110-105 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday.Despite miss...

Pascal Siakam scored 17 of his 26 points in the third quarter and the Toronto Raptors held on to defeat the visiting New Orleans Pelicans 115-110 on Thursday night.Jakob Poeltl added 21 points and a career-best 18 rebounds for the Raptors, who have won th...

Nikola Jokic had 24 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists for his 22nd triple-double of the season as the visiting Denver Nuggets beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-109 on Thursday night.Michael Porter Jr. scored 25 points, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope added 17, a...

Wendell Carter Jr. closed out a 14-point, 14-rebound performance with a tip-in at the buzzer to elevate the host Orlando Magic to a 108-106 win over the Detroit Pistons on Thursday in the first game back from the All-Star break for both teams.Carter's...

Jayson Tatum scored the final four points of overtime to help the Boston Celtics defeat the Indiana Pacers 142-138 in Indianapolis on Thursday night.Tatum had 31 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists in the victory. He broke a 138-138 tie by making two fr...

Malik Beasley scored 25 points and Austin Reaves added 17 as the new-look Los Angeles Lakers earned a 124-111 victory Thursday over the visiting Golden State Warriors in the first game back from the All-Star break for both teams.After his lowest-scoring f...

MANILA, Philippines — The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will hasten the country's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Trade Secretary Alfredo Pascual said on Friday. RCEP is the largest trade pact across the globe as its me...

MANILA, Philippines --- Team USA legend and NBA star Carmelo Anthony has been named as one of the global ambassadors for the Fiba World Cup 2023 co-hosted by the Philippines.Anthony, the most prolific member of Team USA, was formally introduced on Friday ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has promised that he will rehire all city hall employees hired under job-order (JO) contracts as long as they are not proven to be "kawatan" (thieves). The mayor announced this on Friday, Feb. 24...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Protesters held a rally here to call for justice to the killings and highlight the inflation in the country on Friday morning, February 24, 2023, a day before the 37th EDSA People Power Revolution anniversary. At least a hun...

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu—A dead dead fetus was found inside a septic pumper truck that extracted waste from portalets inside the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) compound in Mandaue City on Friday, February 24, 2023. Police in Mandaue received ...

MANILA, Philippines — The administration of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has ordered the establishment of "green lanes" for strategic investments in concerned government agencies and local government units. This is to &#...

SEOUL The United States will likely limit the level of advanced semiconductors made by South Korean companies in China, a senior U.S. official said. In October, South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world's top memory chip makers, re...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine rescue team has recovered more bodies buried under the rubble in earthquake-hit Turkey, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said on Friday. As of Thursday, the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team has retrieved the ...

BEIJING Oil prices extended gains for a second session on Friday as the prospect of lower exports from Russia offset rising inventories in the United States. Brent crude futures rose 61 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $82.82 per barrel by 0215 GMT. West Texas I...

SYDNEY, Australia -Facebook and Instagram began a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday, testing users' willingness to pay for social media features that until now have been free. Facing a drop in advertising revenues, p...

TOKYO Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co plans to construct a second chip plant in Japan to manufacture 5 and 10 nanometre chips from the second half of the decade, the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reported on Friday. That decision could help Japan revive ad...

SYDNEY Asian markets breathed a sigh of relief on Friday as the incoming head of Japan's central bank soothed fears of an early end to super-easy monetary policy, nudging bond yields lower globally. Kazuo Ueda, who will take over as governor of the Ba...

OTTAWA — Canada is launching a joint federal and provincial investigation into the short-video app TikTok over concerns about the Chinese-owned platform's collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, the Privacy Commissioner of Canad...

LONDON The International Monetary Fund has laid out a nine-point action plan for how countries should treat crypto assets, with point number one a plea not to give cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin legal tender status. The global lender of last resort said...

BRUSSELS — The European Union's (EU) two biggest policy-making institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its users' data. TikTok, which...

TOKYO -Incoming Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday it was appropriate to maintain ultra-loose monetary policy as inflation has yet to sustainably and steadily meet the central bank's 2-percent target. Ueda said the recent rise in c...

YouTube Music will soon offer podcasts, YouTube's head of podcasting, Kai Chuk, told Ariel Shapiro at Hot Pod Summit this morning. The new feature would turn it into a bigger competitor for Spotify as it already provides music streaming services. Chuk...

Converge ICT Solutions Inc. has started the construction of a cable landing station in Davao, which is part of the 15,000-kilometer (km) trans-Pacific Bifrost Cable System, as it beefs up internet capacity to address consumers' increasing data require...

With the heightened levels of digitalization in the country, PLDT Inc. has set sights on having a 1,000-terabit — equivalent to 1 petabit — international data capacity in the next five years through investments in subsea cable systems. In a st...

WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden nominated former Mastercard Inc CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, betting the India-born executive's ties to the private sector and emerging markets will jump-start the 77-year-old institution's overhaul t...

MANILA, Philippines — A year after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, 15 million Ukrainians have been displaced while infrastructure damage reached $700 billion. Denys Mykhailiuk, charg d' affaires of the Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia, noted tha...

BENGALURU -Global finance leaders will tally the economic damage from Russia's war in Ukraine on Friday as they meet on the conflict's first anniversary with some voicing concerns that more sanctions on Moscow would disrupt a modest improvement in...