The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking to remove the Binance app from Google Play store and Apple’s app stores nationwide. On April 9, the commission sent separate letters to Google and Apple requesting the removal of the applications that allow users to access Binance’s trading platform. The recent move came after the Philippine National Telecommunications...
MANILA (Vietnam News/ANN): The World Risk Index (WRI) 2023 put the Philippines at the number one for the most-disaster-prone country in the world, followed by Indonesia and India. According to the report, the Philippines topped the list with the highest disaster risk worldwide point of 46.86/100 WRI, while Indonesia and India spotted at 43.5 and 41.52...
MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines on Monday denied China had a "temporary special arrangement" with Manila to allow the delivery of supplies to Philippine troops occupying a disputed South China Sea reef, calling it "a figment of imagination". The Chinese coastguard said on Saturday it had temporarily allowed the Philippines to provide food and water to soldiers...
MANILA (AFP): CNN Philippines will stop operations from January 31 due to "significant financial losses", its owner announced Monday, in the latest blow for the media industry in the South-East Asian nation. The broadcaster began operating in the Philippines in 2015 as a franchise of CNN, delivering mainly English-language news on free-to-air, cable and pay television. Staff...
MANILA: One of the suspects in a fatal Mindanao State University (MSU) bombing has been arrested and is now under the custody of authorities, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Friday (Dec 8). AFP public affairs chief Col Xerxes Trinidad identified the suspect as Jafar Gamo Sultan, who was arrested by joint elements...
MANILA: More than 1,600 aftershocks have jolted a southern Philippine province following a magnitude-7.4 earthquake that left at least one dead and hundreds of houses and buildings damaged, officials said on Monday (Dec 4). The aftershocks included a magnitude-6.8 quake that struck at 3:49am on Monday (1949 GMT Sunday) in Cagwait town in Surigao del Sur...
MANILA: Police in the Philippines have unearthed what they described as a “torture chamber” hidden inside a sex den masquerading as an offshore gaming firm. Photos released by the Philippine Anti-Organised Crime Commission (PAOCC) on Thursday showed handcuffs, truncheons, baseball bats, rattan sticks, tasers, a wooden club and an airsoft gun that police said were used...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim received a courtesy call from Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the Parliament House here on Thursday (Sept 14). Arroyo and her delegation arrived at 11.50am and were welcomed by the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional...
JOHOR BARU: Johor Ruler Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar has welcomed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr at Istana Bukit Serene here as part of the latter’s inaugural state visit to Malaysia. According to Sultan Ibrahim’s official Facebook page, His Majesty and Marcos shared a long history together as they were coursemates when undergoing military training...
Passengers, mostly Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) queue at the departure area of Ninoy Aquino International Airport amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines, on June 1, 2021.Reuters The Philippines will ban travellers coming from Malaysia and Thailand, as well as tighten restrictions in the Manila area, in a bid to prevent the...
