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(Reuters) – China’s top diplomat began a round of meetings with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi on Wednesday as the two countries try to repair a rupture in ties over China’s positioning of an oil rig in disputed waters early last month. But many obstacles remain to resolving one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979. Among the challenges likely to come up in talks: The […]
(Reuters) – Sixty-six people are feared to have drowned after an overloaded wooden boat carrying 97 illegal immigrants from Indonesia sank off Malaysia’s western coast, Malaysian officials said on Wednesday. The passengers included women and children and the boat was not fit for a sea voyage, said Muhammad Zuri, an official with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. “This was an illegal boat and all the passengers were Indonesian,” Zuri told Reuters. Zuri had earlier said […]
Bayan Muna representative Neri Colmenares called Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma “manhid”, when the latter asked the public to bear with the high price of garlic, ginger and other basic products.
The National Bureau of Investigation is ready to arrest those who were accused in the pork barrel case after the issuance of the hold-departure orders against said accused.
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board will temporarily suspend the implementation of higher fines on out-of-line vehicles – those that have franchise but travel in unauthorized routes, to prevent a possible shortage of public utility buses.
The southwest monsoon has returned, bringing rains to most of the country.
Communications secretary Sonny Coloma confirmed President Aquino’s trip to Japan on June 24, where he will give a speech in Hiroshima and meet Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.
Despite its crackdown on tax evaders, the Bureau of Internal Revenue failed to reach its target collection for the month of May.
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation Anti-Human Trafficking Division and Department of Social Work and Development raided a KTV bar in Pasay City after two weeks of surveillance.
Cambodian workers streamed across the border in Sa Kaew province on Tuesday (June 17), after rumours of a crackdown on illegal immigrants by the new military government. Around 170,000 Cambodian workers have already headed home over the past week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, although the exodus is now slowing. IOM Spokesman, Joe Lowry said many are likely to return to Thailand. “The next thing that will happen is people will go […]
The United States is deploying up to 275 military personnel to Iraq. President Barack Obama made the announcement to the U.S. Congress on Monday in a letter to lawmakers. He said he was notifying Congress under the War Powers Resolution. Obama said the forces are for securing the safety of American personnel in Iraq as well as the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The move comes as militants seize control of the north of Iraq. They […]
All three senators facing plunder and other graft charges are now not allowed to leave the country. This was after a hold-departure order was issued against Senate minority leader Juan Ponce Enrile by the Sandiganbayan’s 3rd Division. Aside from Enrile, the anti-graft court also issued a hold departure order against his former chief of staff Gigi Reyes, businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, and 45 others implicated in the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam. The Sandiganbayan Fifth and […]
