FOUR BIG TECH CEOs GETTING HEAT FROM CONGRESS ON COMPETITION Fending off accusations of stifling competition, four Big Tech CEOs - Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple - are answering for their companies' practices before Congress
PHILIPPINES WILL NEVER ABANDON SABAH, SPRATLYS CLAIM: LOCSIN MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. stood pat on his statement about the Philippines' claim to Sabah after the Malaysian government summoned the Philippine Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur to explain LocsinÂ’s t
UNLOCK 3: GYMS TO RE-OPEN; NIGHT CURFEW REMOVED, NO RESTRICTIONS ON INTER-STATE TRAVEL The nationwide Unlock 3 guidelines were on Wednesday issued by the government, opening up more activities outside the containment zones. The Unlock 3 guidelines will come into force from August 1 and s
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
INDIAN, CHINESE TROOPS COMPLETE DISENGAGEMENT AT MOST LOCATIONS OF BORDER, CLAIMS BEIJING Four days after New Delhi announced that India and China had agreed on "early and complete disengagement" along the LAC in Ladakh, Beijing Tuesday said border troops of both countries "have disengag
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
