BIDEN REFUSES TO LIFT SANCTIONS TO GET IRAN BACK TO NEGOTIATE NUCLEAR DEAL US President Joe Biden says he will not lift economic sanctions against Iran until it complies with the terms agreed under a 2015 nuclear deal. Mr Biden was speaking in a CBS News interview aired on Sunday. But Ir
DND CHIEF CAUTIONS vs RED-BAITING MANILA Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has told several military generals, including National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesman Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade to refrain from issuing statements on the red-tagging of j
GOOGLE LAUNCHES PLATFORM IN AUSTRALIA WITH NEWS IT HAS PAID FOR Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content deals with publishers in a drive to show legislation proposed by Canberra to enforce payments, a world first
PHILIPPINES TO GET UP TO 10M OF MOSTLY ASTRAZENECA JABS FROM COVAX FACILITY UK ENVOY MANILA Filipinos will be among the first to receive coronavirus vaccines from the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility, the British embassy said Friday. British Ambassador to the Philippin
UK SCIENTISTS LAUNCH 'MIX AND MATCH' CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRIAL British scientists on Thursday launched an unprecedented trial to find out if two doses of different COVID-19 vaccines yield an immune response that matches - or exceeds - the effect of two doses of the same vaccine. The gove
PHILIPPINE INFLATION QUICKENS TO 4.2 PERCENT IN JANUARY MANILA - Philippine inflation quickened in January driven by higher food prices, the state statistics bureau said on Friday. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the consumer price index rose at a faster annual pace of 4.2
CHARGES SLAPPED ON SUU KYI, FACES DETENTION UNTIL FEBRUARY 15 Police levelled their first formal charge against Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, members of her party said on Wednesday, giving military authorities who staged a coup a legal reason to detain her at least through th
1 DEAD, 59 IN HOSPITAL AFTER AMMONIA LEAK IN NAVOTAS COLD STORAGE PLANT MANILA - One died while 60 residents from a bayside community in Navotas City were rushed to the hospital Wednesday afternoon following an ammonia leak in a cold storage facility owned by the family of Navotas City Ma
First Sitharaman clarified that only Indian income of NRIs is proposed to be taxed under the new provision, and later the tax department issued a statement to say that "the new provision is not intended to include in tax net those Indian citizens who are bonafide workers in other countries".
CONCERNED WITH BEIJING'S INTIMIDATION ATTEMPTS': US In its first response to the China-India border standoff, the Biden administration has voiced concern over Beijing's ongoing attempts to "intimidate" its neighbours and said it was closely monitoring the situation.
