Deputy Foreign Minister Do Hung Viet and Australian Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade Michelle Chan co-chaired the 9th Vietnam-Australia diplomacy-defence dialogue in Hanoi on August 26.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

TACLOBAN: The Philippine Army is counting on the participation of former rebels for the surrender of the remaining 26 active members of the New People’s Army (NPA) hiding in the mountains of Leyte Island.

Brig. Gen. Noel Vestuir, commander of the Arm…

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Tuesday pledged to double his efforts in improving the Filipinos’ lives, as he welcomed the increase in his trust and performance ratings in the latest survey by the OCTA Research Group.

In a chance interv…

MANILA: Over 500,000 liters of oily waste have so far been siphoned from the sunken MTKR Terranova off the coast of Bataan, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said.

In a situation update on Tuesday, the PCG said a total of 506,000 liters of oily waste …

MANILA: The Board of Investments (BOI) has approved a PHP1.2-billion investment project of listed firm Monde Nissin Corp. for its automated manufacturing and processing of its butter coconut biscuits.

Data provided by the BOI Tuesday showed that this…

CEBU: The city government here has successfully placed under community-based rehabilitation half of the almost 11,000 former drug personalities under the city’s watchlist, an official said on Tuesday.

Jonah John Rodriguez, executive director of the C…

MANILA: The country’s total revenues went up by 14.8 percent in the first seven months of the year, Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said on Tuesday.

Recto, during the Senate of the Philippines’ Public Hearing of the Committee on Finance for the 2025 pr…