Workload stress caused by changes in regulations has been one of the three main factors impacting the seafarers’ happiness level in the fourth quarter of 2019, just months before the IMO 2020 sulphur cap entered into force.
XI: NATION ENGAGED IN 'SERIOUS BATTLE' China has full confidence and capability to win the battle against the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday.
TRUMP UNVEILS WEST ASIA PLAN, PALESTINIANS PROTESTU.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed creation of a Palestinianstate with capital in eastern Jerusalem, dependent on Palestinians takingsteps to become self-governing, as part of a peace plan to end decades ofconflict in the regio
PH CONSULATE TO BRING HOME PINOYS FROM CHINA'S VIRUS-HIT HUBEI PROVINCEMANILA - Foreign Affairs Sec. Teodoro Locsin Jr. has ordered the Philippineconsulate in Shanghai to start processing the repatriation of Filipinos inChina's Hubei province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)outbre
XI ENCOURAGES UNITY AGAINST CORONAVIRUS Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, issued an instruction regarding the novel coronavirus on Monday. In it, he urged Party organizations at various levels, officials and Party members to lead and unite the peo
CORONAVIRUS: DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 106 AS CHINA TIGHTENS MEASURESChina says 106 people have died from the new coronavirus and the cases ofnewly infected have almost doubled.
DUTERTE URGED TO WITHDRAW THREAT TO END MILITARY ACCORD WITH USMANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte should withdraw his threat to endManila's Visiting Forces Agreement with Washington over the cancellation ofhis former drug war administrator's US visa, a former senator said Tuesday.
SPEAKER OM BIRLA WRITES TO EU PARLIAMENT OVER ANTI-CAA RESOLUTIONSAs the European Parliament prepares to debate five resolutions against theCitizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday wroteto European Parliament President David Maria Sassoli stating that it isinap
PREMIER LI ARRIVES IN WUHAN TO INSTRUCT EPIDEMIC CONTROL Entrusted by President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang arrived on Monday in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to instruct on epidemic control and prevention.
THREE ROCKETS HIT U.S. EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD, ONE INJUREDThree rockets slammed into the U.S. Embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday inthe first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands keptup anti-government sit-ins across the country.
