GOV'T PREPARES TO EXHAUST FISCAL LEEWAY, POLITICAL CAPITAL IN DUTERTE'S 'YOLANDA MOMENT' MANILA — A decade of fiscal discipline and record popularity are now being put to good use by President Duterte vowing to do whatever it takes to sufficiently counter the coronavirus disease-2019
PRESIDENT CONTINUES WITH BUSY DIPLOMATIC AGENDA President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that China is willing to bolster coordination and cooperation with all other nations to send a message of solidarity and unity in fighting COVID-19 and to shore up global confidence. Xi made the remark i
WHITE HOUSE, US CONGRESS AGREE ON $2 TRILLION RESCUE BILL The White House and Senate leaders of both major political parties announced agreement early Wednesday on unprecedented emergency legislation to rush sweeping aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coro
PHILIPPINES HAS ECONOMIC 'FIREPOWER' TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS, SAYS IMF MANILA -- The Philippines has the economic "firepower" to fight the coronavirus pandemic and can draw from the International Monetary Fund's emergency financing, the Washington-based lender said Thursday. Manila has high
XI TO ATTEND VIRTUAL G20 SUMMIT ON CORONAVIRUS President Xi Jinping will attend in Beijing on Thursday an extraordinary virtual G20 leaders' summit on coping with the novel coronavirus, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced on Wednesday.
WORLD ON LOCKDOWN: BUSINESS ACTIVITY COLLAPSES AT RECORD PACE Business activity has collapsed from Australia and Japan to Western Europe at a record pace, as measures to contain the coronavirus hammer the world economy, with data for the United States later on Tuesday expected to be just
WITH WORLD BUSY FIGHTING CORONAVIRUS, CHINA QUIETLY BUILDS INSTALLATIONS ON PHILIPPINE-CLAIMED REEFS MANILA — While the rest of the world is busy battling the coronavirus pandemic, China, where the virus originated, has taken advantage of the countries’ preoccupation by building n
PM ADDRESSES THE NATION, DECLARES 21-DAY NATION-WIDE LOCKDOWN Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a complete lockdown across the country for 21 days from midnight, asserting that social distancing is the only way out for the country to fight a decisive battle against corona
CHINA OFFERS GLOBAL HELP IN COMBATING COVID-19 President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke over phone on Monday night and voiced support for the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. On behalf of the C
GLOBAL LOCKDOWN TO FIGHT THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said, "The pandemic is accelerating," Tedros said. "It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000 cases and just fou
