Oct 29, 2026
South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix kept almost 80 per cent of its total sales as operating profit last quarter, a margin almost unheard of in manufacturing, as the country’s chipmakers reap the rewards of the global artificial intelligence boom. Operating profit, defined as earnings from the company’s core business before interest and taxes, soared 632 per cent in the three months to September from a year earlier to 83.33 trillion won (US$62.76 billion) on revenue of 104.62 trillion won, SK...
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Oct 28, 2026
PH, Japan eye transfer of first Abukuma-class destroyer 'at the earliest possible date"
We're headed to the Halloween weekend. How are you all feeling after Mercury went retrograde and the full moon in Taurus? That's not mentioning Venus Retrograde now back in Libra. Perhaps it's best to use the weekend to rest and reset?
Only 347 out of the required number of 510 police service dogs remain active, with even more set to retire by the end of 2026
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has started inspecting transport terminals across Metro Manila ahead of the expected surge of travelers heading to the provinces for All Saints" Day, reminding bus operators to screen only age-appropriate content.
In most homes, the entry opens onto a living room, perhaps a kitchen. Zhou Shu arrives to find her wardrobe and wide-open bathroom just beyond the foyer, with her glass-walled bedroom between them. This is no tight city flat but a 2,000 square foot (185 square metre) residence in a leafy pocket on the outskirts of Chongqing, in southwest China. Upstairs are a full-size kitchen, dining and living areas, plus a garden at the top. This inversion of the conventional domestic plan is only half the...
One in three power plants in the Visayas is fueled by coal, based on the Department of Energy's list of existing power plants, as of July 2026
Australia has returned two stone sculptures to China after more than 30 years abroad. The statues, showing the heads of a military official and civil servant, had been given to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra by a private collector and date back to the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration received the heads on Wednesday, according to the state broadcaster CCTV. They are thought to have been removed from two imperial mausoleums in Henan...
TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines — Filipino seafarers training in Eastern Visayas are expected to benefit from improved accommodation and upgraded safety training facilities as the National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP) rolls out P261 million worth of infrastructure projects at its Tacloban complex. The projects, unveiled on Tuesday, Oct. 27, form part of the government agency’s modernization
MANILA, Philippines — Pre-shaded ballots were observed in three precincts outside the high-profile incident in Maluso, Basilan, during the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), an election watchdog said on Wednesday. The findings suggest that the ballot irregularities were not confined to Maluso, where more than 16,000 ballots were
MANILA, Philippines — More Filipinos were satisfied with Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team than the House prosecution during her Senate impeachment trial, a survey from the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said on Wednesday. The survey was fielded among 1,500 Filipino adults, aged 18 and above, nationwide using face-to-face interviews. It found that 47 percent
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