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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will not attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit slated in Jakarta, Indonesia in person. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs, however, will attend the event slated on April 24. “Marami rin pong hindi makakarating na heads of state ng ASEAN (Many heads of state won’t be able to make it to the event),” he said. The Philippines is dealing with […]
Japan is to ban government use of telecoms products made by Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE on concerns about cybersecurity, reports said Friday. The government plans to revise internal procurement rules to exclude products made by Huawei and ZTE as early as on Monday, the mass circulation Yomiuri Shimbun. Jiji Press agency also reported the expected move. The ban comes after a US request to allies to avoid products made by the two companies […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The Japanese government said Thursday it “can never tolerate” provocations from North Korea after the country’s military said it was finalizing a plan to launch missiles towards Guam that would fly over Japan. “North Korea’s provocative actions, including this time, are obviously provocative to the region including Japan as well as to the security of the international community,” Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s chief government spokesman, told reporters. “We can never tolerate this.” Japan has […]
Tokyo, Japan (Reuters) — The death toll in western Japan’s flooding disaster has risen to at least six, a government spokesman said on Friday (July 7), while thousands of rescuers, some in helicopters, searched for survivors. Parts of Fukuoka, on the southwestern island of Kyushu, were hit by 593 mm (23 inches) of rain in the 48 hours to 9:00 a.m. Friday (midnight GMT), well over the rainfall of a usual July, the meteorological agency said. […]
HANGZHOU, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in China Monday, Tokyo said, their first meeting in more than a year with their nations divided by territorial disputes and recriminations over history. “There are difficult issues between Japan and China, and because of that, it is important that the leaders exchange honest opinions and make improvements,” chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters. The meeting will follow the […]
TOKYO,Japan (AFP) — Japanese transport ministry officials raided a Mitsubishi Motors office Thursday following the shock admission by the automaker that it falsified fuel-efficiency tests in more than 600,000 vehicles. The officials descended on a research and development centre in the city of Nagoya Thursday morning, and the government may slap the under-fire company with fines over the scandal, local media said. “This has critically damaged consumers’ trust and it won’t be tolerated,” top government […]
A bus carrying participants in a ski tour crashed Friday (January 15) morning in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture, killing 14 people and injuring another 27. Japanese chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said that the latest information was that of the 41 people on board, no one escaped unharmed. “We have received information that of the people on the bus 14 people have been killed and 27 others were injured,” Suga said. Suga said that there would […]
