MANILA, Philippines—The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has commended Ambassador Libran N. Cabactulan, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York, for leading the negotiations in the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to a successful conclusion. The NPT Review Conference, where Cabactulan [...]
Years of unmitigated and destructive human activities have plunged the Philippines in a biodiversity “crisis” that could take decades to reverse, environment officials said Tuesday.
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines and Taiwan have warned some sport drinks may have been contaminated with a chemical that could cause infertility and block boys’ sex organ development, officials said Tuesday. The Philippine Food and Drug Administration is monitoring some imported Taiwanese sport drinks, fruit juices and soft drinks that Taipei said may contain excessive amounts [...]
WASHINGTON—On his final overseas trip as secretary of defense, Robert Gates will make the case to a gathering of Asian defense chiefs in Singapore that expected budget-slashing in Washington will not weaken America’s commitment to Asia. Gates will be in Singapore, after a stopover Tuesday in Hawaii, to attend the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s most [...]
China on Tuesday told Vietnam to end its activities in disputed waters in the South China Sea, after Chinese maritime ships confronted a Vietnamese oil exploration vessel in the region.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested two alleged members of the West African Drug Syndicates (WADS) in Cainta Rizal, a Radyo Inquirer 990AM report said Tuesday.
The Commission on Appointments has confirmed the nominations of 22 new ambassadors and 39 foreign service officers Tuesday.
MANILA, Philippines—The first batch of Filipino workers and their dependents arrived from strife-torn Yemen at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The eight repatriates, including four children, were among the 69 Filipinos who availed themselves of the voluntary repatriation of the government since it raised alert level 3 in Yemen amid political [...]
The Commission on Appointments on Tuesday approved the nomination of Secretary Albert del Rosario as chief of the Department of Foreign Affairs.
A recent news article appeared in The Philippine Star titled: “Bongbong hails P-Noy’s move to let public decide on FM burial.” Bongbong publicly lauding President Aquino who supposedly has allowed the public to decide on his father’s hero burial appears to be a subtle attempt to manipulate and pressure Aquino into allowing a survey to [...]
Darylle Asuncion, 12, didn’t know what hit him. For five years, the timid son of farmers is sad-faced while envying classmates’ new school bags and notebooks at Mlang Pilot Elementary School in North Cotabato. But on his first day as a sixth grader last schoolyear, Darylle showed his freckles in glee. He sported his own [...]
MANILA, Philippines – Southeast Asian countries must act now to protect the region’s biodiversity in the face of those who want to plunder its resources for a quick profit, the Philippine president said on Monday. As an example of the threat, President Benigno Aquino III cited the discovery this month of a huge shipment of [...]
