Four crew members were injured by broken glass in an earlier China Coast Guard water cannon attack on the same vessel on Mar 5. “This is just an ordinary rotation and resupply or provision operation but look at how the Chinese are reacting,” Ano told reporters, according to an interview transcript shared with AFP. The … Read more
MANILA: US companies are set to announce investments amounting to more than US$1 billion dollars in the Philippines, United States Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said during an official visit to Manila on Monday (Mar 11). The investments would be in areas like solar energy, electric vehicles and digitisation, she said, adding that US companies were … Read more
From the Japanese vice clubs tricking women into sex work to why 2024 could be Southeast Asia’s year for tourism, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the … Read more
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday that a closed-door deal for Taylor Swift to perform in the city-state ensured she would not perform in other Southeast Asian countries during her Eras tour. “(Our) agencies negotiated an arrangement with her to come to Singapore and perform and to make Singapore her only stop in … Read more
MANILA: The Philippines on Sunday (Feb 25) accused the Chinese coast guard of attempting to block a Filipino government vessel delivering supplies to fishermen, the second such alleged incident near a disputed reef in two weeks. The BRP Datu Sanday was supplying fuel to fishermen near the Scarborough Shoal when it was harassed by a … Read more
The Philippines has accused Chinese fishermen of poisoning the Scarborough Shoal with cyanide. “These Chinese fishermen use cyanide,” Nazario Briguera, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, said on Saturday, according to local media reports. Scarborough Shoal lies off the northwestern Philippines. It is located in a tiny and uninhabited region in … Read more
In the latest incidents, a Chinese navy ship, China Coast Guard vessels and other Chinese boats shadowed a Philippine vessel belonging to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources that was bringing food and fuel to Filipino fishermen, allowing them to spend more time at sea and pursue a larger catch. AFP correspondents and journalists … Read more
In an incident that can only be termed a miracle, a 3-year-old was rescued after being trapped for nearly 60 hours in rubble and mud. As many as 63 people are missing after a landslide hit the gold-mining village of Masara in the southern Philippines on Tuesday night. The girl was among the few lucky … Read more
MANILA: The alleged mastermind of a bombing at a Catholic mass in the southern Philippines has died after a clash between members of a pro-Islamic State group and government troops, officials said on Monday (Feb 12). Four people were killed and dozens wounded in the Dec 3 attack on worshippers inside a university gym in … Read more
MANILA: The Philippine Coast Guard on Sunday (Feb 11) accused Chinese vessels of “dangerous” manoeuvres during a nine-day patrol near a reef off the coast of the Southeast Asian country. The Philippine vessel BRP Teresa Magbanua was deployed in early February to patrol the waters around Scarborough Shoal, a rich fishing ground in the South … Read more
