South East Asia

Sales of smartphones in the Philippines dove by a record 8.6 percent to 16.3 million units in 2022, according to the Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of International Data Corp. (IDC), as rising prices of basic goods and services prompted many Filipinos to ...

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is eyeing its e-licensing portal for the export of strategic goods—products that are of military or of dual use in nature—to go online by the second quarter of this year, a move seen to improve the ea...

Chiara Permentilla. PVL PHOTOMANILA, Philippines---Chiara Permentilla played her best game yet since returning from an ACL injury she sustained in 2019.Her performance couldn't have come at a better time for Akari, which was desperate for a breakthrou...

MANILA, Philippines---PLDT handed Chery Tiggo its first loss in the Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference with a 25-13, 25-22, 27-25 sweep on Tuesday at Philsports Arena in Pasig City.The High Speed Hitters claimed their second consecutive vic...

MANILA, Philippines —The proposal by Pantaleon Alvarez, the former House of Representatives speaker and representative of Davao del Norte's 1st District, to take marijuana off the list of dangerous drugs has caused a stir in the political sphere...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A young couple and their daughter were killed when the black sedan they were riding in collided with a wing van in Barangay Dunggoan, Danao City on Tuesday noon, February 21, 2023. A son who was believed to be seated at the ...

MANILA, Philippines---Akari posted its first win at the expense of hapless Army-Black Mamba, 25-18, 25-19, 23-25, 25-19, in the Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference Tuesday at PhilSports Arena in Pasig.Dindin Santiago-Manabat carried the Powe...

MANDAUE CTIY, Cebu—The Mandaue City Government conducted a public hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, to introduce the planned implementation of the Paleng-QR Ph Plus. The public hearing was done so the government will know what vendors and buyers at...

MANILA, Philippines---San Beda will be without a pair of key cogs for the next NCAA season.Tony Ynot and Justine Sanchez have left the Red Lions, expressing their intent to turn pro and play in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL), according t...

Alexander Zverev said he was finally playing without any pain and enjoying his tennis again after a serious ankle injury and subsequent complications derailed his 2022 season.Zverev, 25, had surgery to repair damaged ankle ligaments following an injury he...

As electric cars dominate streets worldwide, we will need to change our roads in the future. Specifically, we might add a fourth color to traffic signals: white! North Carolina State researchers are developing a way to help human drivers know when driverl...

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—Three wanted persons were arrested by personnel of Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LCPO) in separate manhunt operations on Monday, February 20, 2023. At around 11:30 a.m., the LCPO first conducted a manhunt operation in Barangay B...

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — The Municipality of Cordova is initiating a rice-for-garbage program to discourage its constituents from using plastic on Wednesdays and Saturdays. This was based on the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Ordinance no...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 40-year-old woman who was arrested for drugs here strongly denied she was engaged in any illegal drug activity. Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) confiscated at least 500 gram...

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Seven most wanted persons in Lapu-Lapu City were apprehended by the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LCPO) last week. This was confirmed by Police Colonel Elmer Lim, city director of LCPO. Lim said that of the 16 operations again...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Deciding to be a fur parent is a lifetime commitment. This is the reminder of Dr. Verna Agriam, the Animal Welfare Officer of the Bureau of Animal Industry here amidst the reported cases of animal welfare abuse in Cebu at th...

CEBU CITY, Philippines- A 62-year-old 'habal-habal'; driver was arrested on Monday, February 20, 2023, for allegedly raping a 6-year-old girl in Carcar City, southern Cebu. The accused, identified as Mario Bernal Panugan, a resident of the said cit...

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Prime Stags Sports recently revealed that they are working on a fight for former world champion and now Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) silver featherweight champion Milan "El Metodico" Melindo in Japan t...

HANOI -Taiwan's Pou Chen Corp, the world's largest maker of branded sports footwear, plans to cut around 6,000 jobs at its Ho Chi Minh City plant in Vietnam due to weak demand, two local officials familiar with the company's plans said on Tues...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Teachers, especially those who are assigned in public schools, also need help and guidance, especially in determining ways to impose discipline on their students. With this, an official of the Children's Legal Bureau (CL...

The world of stablecoins is suddenly looking shaky. Seismic shifts may be afoot in the $137-billion market after New York-based Paxos Trust Company, which mints Binance's stablecoin, said it would cease issuing new BUSD tokens after U.S. regulators la...

HONG KONG Hong Kong is under pressure to rein in spending when it unveils its annual budget on Wednesday, after racking up huge fiscal deficits during the COVID-19 pandemic and as it struggles to kick-start the economy and regain its financial luster. The...

NEW YORK Bond investors are starting to trim holdings of U.S. debt to brace for a possible government default that they see as highly unlikely but potentially seismic for financial markets around the world. The U.S. Treasury hit its $31.4 trillion borrowi...

LONDON HSBC said it still expects to complete the sale of its Russia business in first-half 2023, in the most significant update on the progress of the deal since it said in July 2022 it had agreed to sell the unit to local lender Expobank. Europe's b...

NEW YORK Eytan Morgenstern is facing a very expensive dilemma. The 36-year-old public relations professional has an opportunity to check something off his life 'bucket list': Seeing his favorite band, Metallica, play live. One problem: They are no...

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu Football Club (CFC) Gentle Giants dedicated their huge victory against league-leader Kaya FC Iloilo to the victims of the earthquake in Hatay in southern Turkey. The Gentle Giants toppled the league leader Kaya Iloilo...

ANTAKYA, Turkey Six people were killed in an earthquake that struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after a larger quake killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes....

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) will be on a full alert status this Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25, for the celebration of the city's 86th Charter Day and the commemoration of the 37th EDSA People Power Revolu...

CEBU CITY, Philippines The island province of Cebu has been shortlisted again for an international award for tourism. Organizers from the World Travel Awards (WTA) on February 20 unveiled the list of nominees for this year's competition. They shortlis...

Ayala Land Inc. said 2022 profit rose by 52 percent to P18.6 billion as expanding commercial lot sales and mall and office rentals offset a slowdown in residential revenues. While recording robust gains for the year, the property giant's 2022 income r...

MANILA Philippines — The Province of Albay on Tuesday intensified its search and rescue operations to locate passengers that boarded a Cessna plane that went missing, but was later found near the crater of Mayon Volcano. Albay Governor Atty. Edcel G...

Karen Green sold an unopened iPhone in 2007 for a whopping $63,000! LCG Auctions held an online auction for the device starting at $5,000. The auction house estimated the pristine first-gen iPhone could fetch a $50,000 price tag. Fortunately, the devices ...

CONSOLACION, Cebu—A cause-oriented group calls for the liberation of political prisoners as the country commemorates the 37th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Karapatan Central Visayas Secretary General...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (PISTON)-Cebu wants the compulsory franchise consolidation and the implementation of the mandatory purchase of modern jeepneys (MPUJs) under the government'...

Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo does not have a major wrist injury, The Athletic and ESPN reported on Monday.Antetokounmpo traveled to New York on Monday to undergo further testing on his ailing right wrist, ESPN reported, and per both The...

Free agent guard Patrick Beverley, a Chicago native, will sign with his hometown Bulls, ESPN and The Athletic reported Monday.The Bulls will need to waive a player to create a roster spot for Beverley, which could happen as early as Tuesday, per the repor...

Russell Westbrook is changing teams for the second time this month, but he can keep his Los Angeles address after agreeing to a contract with the Clippers.Westbrook, traded to the Utah Jazz from the Los Angeles Lakers at the deadline, had over $13 million...

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Jinggoy Estrada filed on Monday another Senate resolution seeking to protect former President Rodrigo Duterte from the drug war probe of the International Criminal Court. Senate Resolution No. 492 expresses the Senate'...

MANILA, Philippines---Coach Yeng Guiao is both saddened and understanding about the non-inclusions of his former players Maverick Ahanmisi, Juami Tiongson and Don Trollano in next month's PBA All-Star Game in Passi City, Iloilo."Nagtataka rin ako ...

SYDNEY Australia's central bank, startled by the risk that inflation could prove stickier than previously thought, abandoned all thought of pausing at its February policy meeting and signalled more rate hikes would be needed in the months ahead. Minut...

POSITIVE SIGNS Improving real estate prices and declining jobless rate bode well for the local property industry. —Graphics from Cushman & Wakefield . Office vacancy rates across the country will continue to rise in the near term before trending low...

ECONOMIC BACKBONE About 99.58% of all PH businesses comprise MSMEs. —Department of Trade and Industry. Amid high inflation that has been pestering the economy in the past year or so, stakeholders are anticipating a good year for micro, small and med...

MANILA, Philippines---Gilas Pilipinas is finding some sort of relief in its growing manpower woes with Jordan Heading and Schonny Winston around.With Roger Pogoy out due to a bone bruise, national coach Chot Reyes said that the basketball program is findi...

SINGAPORE Asian stocks edged lower on Tuesday as the prospect of the U.S. central bank having to stay on its hawkish path weighed on sentiment, with investors looking to the minutes of the latest Federal Reserve meeting for further monetary policy clues. ...

MANILA, Philippines — Did you know that one out of ten high-ranking Southeast Asia (SEA) executives struggles to understand basic cybersecurity terms? Based on a recent study conducted by e-security firm Kaspersky, some high-ranking executives in SE...

TOKYO -Financial leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) will meet on Feb. 23 to discuss measures against Russia that will put pressure on it to end the Ukraine war, Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday. Japan will chair the meeting of ...

HONG KONG -The disappearance of a star Chinese dealmaker has left his bank struggling to reassure clients and staff, people with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, and has heightened concerns about "key man risk" for investors. Shares of Chin...

The delivery of natural gas from the Malampaya offshore field to key power plants in Luzon resumed last Feb. 19, according to its operator. In a statement, Prime Energy Resources Development (Prime Energy), a subsidiary of Razon-led Prime Infra, said the ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Regular and casual employees of the Cebu City Hall will each receive a Charter Anniversary bonus of P15,000. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama made the announcement as he addressed employees after the early morning flag-raising c...

Chief Twit Elon Musk announced Friday last week that only Twitter Blue subscribers would have two-factor authentication. The feature enhances account security by requiring a confirmation code after entering the username and password. The company justified...