US: CHINA CAN’T REQUIRE REPORTING FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA PASSAGE MANILA — China’s new action requiring ships to report innocent passage in the South China Sea “seems to run directly counter to international agreements” and could trigger “potentia
INDIA'S PARALYMPIANS BEAT THE ODDS, COME HOME WITH 19 MEDALS Inspirational, incredible and indomitable. India's paralympians were all these and much more in an epoch-making campaign at the Tokyo Games, where an unparalleled 19 medals, including 5 gold, helped them sign off 24th
MULLAH HEBATULLAH AKHUNDZADA SET TO HEAD THE NEW TALIBAN GOVT IN AFGHANISTAN The Taliban are likely to announce a new administration after Friday afternoon prayers on the lines of the Iranian leadership with the group’s top spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada as Afghan
MODERNA GETS EUA FOR COVID-19 JAB USE ON ADOLESCENTS MANILA — Philippine drug regulators on Friday cleared Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years old. Director General Eric Domingo of the Food and Drug Administration told a government briefin
TOO EARLY TO TALK ABOUT RECOGNIZING THE TALIBAN REGIME: MEA India's immediate focus in Afghanistan is to ensure that Afghan soil is not used for terrorist activities against it and it was still "very early days" to talk about any possible recognition to the Taliban, the external
WITH KABUL AIRPORT CLOSED, FEARFUL AFGHANS RUSH FOR THE BORDER Crowds looking to flee Afghanistan flocked to its borders while long queues formed at banks on Wednesday, as an administrative vacuum after the Taliban’s takeover left foreign donors unsure of how to respond to
PHILIPPINES KEEPS PANDEMIC IN MIND IN DECISION TO ACCEPT AFGHAN REFUGEES MANILA – The Department of Justice is still waiting for the directive of the Office of the President before it can act on accepting refugees from Afghanistan, an official said Thursday. Thousan
WON’T MEDDLE IN KASHMIR, SAY TALIBAN The youngest member of the Taliban peace committee, Anas Haqqani, asked India and Pakistan to not use Afghanistan “as a pawn” since they had a long enough border to settle the matter among themselves.
LEADERS FROM ALL WALKS IN PM-LED PANEL TO MARK 75 YEARS OF FREEDOM The government issued a gazette notification late on Friday evening, announcing a high-level national committee to commemorate 75 years of Independence, to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
PHILIPPINE TRAVEL BAN VS COVID-19 VARIANTS TO STAY UNTIL SEPT. 5 MANILA— The Philippines is extending the suspension of entry of travelers from 10 countries until Sept. 5 to arrest the spread of more contagious COVID-19 variants linked to an uptick in infections, Malaca&nt
