Nov 12, 2026
Gibran, son of ex-president Joko Widodo, has come under intense scrutiny from lawmakers following Constitutional Court and Supreme Court rulings that his education documents did not meet election requirements
Every Pinoy loves bibingka especially during Christmas season, but would you try it if it was in pizza form?
When OpenAI’s AI agents launched an autonomous attack on Australia’s Medicare portal in June, it took the company 84 days to report what had happened – a delay that exposed gaps in regulatory oversight that Hong Kong industry experts say the city must also address. The incident followed breaches involving Google’s Gemini AI, which compromised three companies a month earlier. Google did not confirm those breaches until September, and only in response to media questions. Such incidents have drawn...
Japan’s push to strengthen its armed forces is running into headwinds that money alone cannot resolve, analysts warn, pointing to prolonged delays in US weapon shipments and domestic manufacturing bottlenecks that undermine operational readiness. The issues have cast doubt on Tokyo’s ability to meet ambitious force expansion targets as the government prepares to overhaul its defence and security spending priorities. Observers say these setbacks highlight the need for Japan to build up its...
The Hong Kong government has set forth on a course of action which seems destined to upset large swathes of the middle class, including senior personnel from finance, business, technology and academia. These are the very people whose presence here underpins our professed economic development strategy. I am referring, of course, to the discussions now reaching a climax on the terms for extending the leases of private recreation clubs. The government has set the end of this year as the deadline...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has intensified its security and public safety operations nationwide in light of the expected influx of travelers during the long weekend in Metro Manila amid the 49th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits.
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It's not because we hate America. It's because we don’t want to be its military outpost anymore, its source of cheap labor and resources, or its faraway battlefield.
Australia’s new mandatory safeguards on AI companies could serve as a model for Southeast Asia, analysts say, but the region needs to build its institutional and technical capabilities first. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Tuesday that AI companies operating in Australia must immediately report incidents in which their models behave in a rogue or misaligned way and must open systems for evaluation. The measures followed a breach of Australia’s government health data system in June...
Nov 11, 2026
MANILA, Philippines — Gabriel Go has stopped reporting for work at the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) as he awaits his appointment as an assistant secretary at the Department of Transportation (DOTr), MMDA Chair Atty. Don Artes said on Wednesday. Artes said the agency had yet to receive Go’s formal resignation letter but had already
MANILA, Philippines — A group composed of fisherfolk, buyers and intervenors on Wednesday called on the government to amend the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 by lifting the blanket prohibition on commercial fishing in municipal waters. This as the group—composed of more than 100 fishers, buyers and intervenors—pointed out in a manifesto submitted to the
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