XI URGES AIIB TO ENGAGE MORE PARTNERS President Xi Jinping called on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank on Tuesday to make itself a new platform promoting development among all members and facilitating the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in the context of the
'SIGURO BINGI SILA': PALACE SLAMS CRITICS WHO SAY GOV'T LACKS COVID-19 RECOVERY PLAN MANILA-- Malacañang dismissed Tuesday claims that the government has no pandemic recovery roadmap after President Rodrigo Duterte's fifth State of the Nation Address failed to detail such a plan.
CORONAVIRUS: TRUMP STICKS BY REVOKED HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE US President Donald Trump on Tuesday once again endorsed the use of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of the coronavirus, AP reported. Trump also claimed that the drug was rejected as a treatment only because h
CLOSURE OF US CONSULATE NECESSARY ACT Ministry urges Washington to correct its mistakes, get relations back on track. The closure and takeover of the United States' consulate in Chengdu is China's legitimate and necessary response to the unreasonable US act of shutting down and bre
CHINA ASKS AFGHANISTAN, NEPAL TO BE LIKE 'IRON BROTHER' PAKISTAN AT A FOUR-COUNTRY MEET China on Monday convened a rare quadrilateral dialogue with the Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan, pledging to strengthen cooperation among the four nations in dealing with the COVI
DUTERTE’S SONA: A MIX OF ATTACK, WARNING, PLEA, WISH LIST, PROMISES MANILA—President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday, against the backdrop of a pandemic that has disrupted the lives of millions of Filipinos and which continues to spre
XI TO DELIVER SPEECH AT AIIB'S ANNUAL EVENT President Xi Jinping will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the fifth annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to be held via video link on Tuesday in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua
US ELECTIONS 2020: TRUMP FACES HEADWINDS WITH POLLS 100 DAYS AWAY With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump's presidency, putting the incumbent in a perilous position as his re-elec
XI STRESSES NATION'S COMPETITIVENESS President Xi Jinping has highlighted the need to make the economy more competitive, innovative and able to resist risks as part of efforts to further bolster the real economy, especially the manufacturing sector, and improve the level of entire industria
FROM PING-PONG DIPLOMACY TO TIT-FOR-TAT HOSTILITY, US-CHINA TIES SPIRAL DOWN What started with ping-pong diplomacy almost 50 years in the past plunged into tit-for-tat hostility this week as China retaliated on Friday to the US' closure of the Chinese language consulate in Houston by orde
