27 AFGHAN PEACE ACTIVISTS ABDUCTED BY THE TALIBAN Taliban militants have kidnapped 27 peace activists from a highway in Afghanistan's western Farah province, local officials and peace activists said on Wednesday.
BEIJING, TOKYO EYE BROADER COOPERATION Beijing and Tokyo have agreed to expand cooperation in coping with aging societies and other issues as they seek to foster new areas of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
NEW YEAR, NEW TAXES; HOUSE EYES 4 BILLS MANILA - The principal taxman in Congress vowed yesterday to push for the approval next year of four tax bills that would raise an additional P492 billion from taxpayers and the booming offshore gambling industry over five years.&
RIGHTS VS RESPONSIBILITIES: PM MODI'S MESSAGE FOR PROTESTERS Days after his Ramlila Maidan address where he said there was no talk of NRC and that the Opposition was spreading "pernicious" rumours to instigate protesters against the new citizenship law, Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nb
LEADERS VOW TO JOINTLY TACKLE CHALLENGES Leaders from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea reaffirmed on Tuesday their commitment to bolster regional economic integration and jointly tackle common challenges such as aging societies, healthcare and environmental protection.
PUTIN ACCUSES POLAND OF COLLUDING WITH HITLER President Vladimir Putin upped the ante in a war of words with Europe on Tuesday, accusing Poland of colluding with Hitler and of anti-Semitism. Tensions are running high between Moscow and Warsaw, with NATO and EU member Poland feari
‘BANGSAMORO HAVE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS VS TERRORISM’ MANILA — President Duterte is open to allowing residents of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to have their own police force and to bear arms against terrorism, which he described as a &ldquo
CAA THROUGH, NRC HANGING AND NOW NPR FROM APRIL Amid nationwide protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens, the Union Cabinet Tuesday approved a proposal for conducting Census of India 2021 at a cost of Rs 8,754 crore and&nbs
CONSENSUS URGED FOR NEW ERA RELATIONS President Xi Jinping underlined on Monday the need for China and Japan to implement their political consensus that they "treat each other as cooperative partners instead of threats" in developing bilateral ties.
TRUMP SIGNS 2020 BUDGET BANNING DE LIMA JAILERS Officials involved in the “wrongful” detention of Sen. Leila de Lima would be banned from entering the United States, based on a provision in the $1.4-trillion US budget for next year signed by President Donald Trump.
