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MANILA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines will intensify its efforts to fight against tuberculosis in targeted areas as the Southeast Asian country grapples with a resurgence of the highly infectious airborne disease, Philippine Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said on Tuesday.

"The Philippines continues to be one of the top countries with the high burden of tuberculosis," Herbosa told a news conference, adding

KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 (Xinhua) -- OCBC Bank on Tuesday foresaw ASEAN-China connections to continue to deepen over the medium term.

In an OCBC treasury research provided to Xinhua, OCBC Bank's economists Tommy Xie Dongming and Lavanya Venkateswaran said that increased linkages between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China will foster deeper connections.

Despite a marked deceleration i

Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should also focus on developing sovereign digital currencies, President Xi Jinping has said

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an increase in the use of national currencies in trade between members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

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Irresponsible economic policies by developed nations have increased tensions globally, the Russian president has claimed   

The uncontrolled accumulation of debt by Western countries is increasing the risk of a new global financial crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday.  

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Today, a group of armed thugs in Chechnya's capital, Grozny, attacked Elena Milashina, a prominent journalist and a recipient of Human Right Watch's award for extraordinary activism, and Alexander Nemov, a human rights lawyer. Both had been working on the case of Zarema Mussaeva, who was being tried on apparent politically motivated charges.

MANILA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank has classified the Philippines as a lower middle-income country with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of 3,950 U.S. dollars.

According to a report released on Monday by the World Bank, the Philippines' GNI per capita increased by 11.3 percent to 3,950 dollars in 2022, still within the multilateral lender's list of lower middle-income economies of 1,136 dollars to

MANILA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The erupting Mayon volcano, approximately 500 km southeast of the Philippine capital, has increased seismic activities, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology warned on Tuesday.

The institute said that alert level 3 on a scale of 5 remains at the most active volcano in the Southeast Asian country, despite the persistence of "a continuous tremor-like series of weak volca

(New York) - Hong Kong authorities have issued baseless arrest warrants and HK$1 million (US$128,000) bounties on eight exiled democracy activists and former legislators that expand China's political intimidation campaign beyond its borders, Human Rights Watch said today.

On July 3, 2023, the Hong Kong national security police

The sovereign-debt crisis is hitting Africa particularly hard and could lead to a lost decade of development. While the G20 has tried to ease the burden, its Common Framework has proven ineffective and needs to be fixed, and international institutions must make room at the policymaking table for African countries.

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The country cannot meet its own needs in the aftermath of its nuclear phase-out, the outlet has claimed

Germany has had to ramp up electricity imports in the first six months of the year, after the government decided to shut down the country's last remaining nuclear power plants in favor of renewable energy sourc

MANILA - Unidentified assailants shot and wounded a photojournalist in Quezon City on June 29, 2023. Rene Joshua Abiad of Remate online sustained gunshot wounds in the hand and the shoulder. Six relatives who were with him in a sports utility vehicle and a bystander were also hurt in the attack. One of them, Abiad's four-yea

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GLENDA GLORIA, executive editor and co-founder of Rappler, has been awarded one of the world's most prestigious journalism honors, the Women in News Editorial Leadership Awards from the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

Gloria was

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Philstar.com for their reports that discuss the need for holistic and humane approaches in dealing with illegal drugs and in

By: CMFR Staff

Posted on: July 4, 2023, 1:00 pm

Updated on: July 4, 2023, 12:47 pm

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Philstar.com for their reports that discuss the need for holistic and humane approaches in dealing with illegal drugs and in fixing the country's drug polici

The live-action Hollywood film reportedly shows contested South China Sea territory as belonging to Beijing

Vietnam has banned the Hollywood live-action comedy 'Barbie' after state film censors took issue with scenes in which a map of the disputed South China Sea is drawn to favor China, Vietnamese media reported on Monday.

"The film review board watched the film and made the decision to ba

The release of a national Health Workforce Plan today is an exciting step towards mobilising growth within our Mori workforce and ensuring Mori have a clear pathway into health mahi.

"It is widely recognised that there has been a lack of investment in the development of the Mori health

Altyn Kapalova is a lesbian feminist, artist, and writer from Kyrgyzstan who has been fighting with Kyrgyz authorities for more than two years for the right to keep the matronymic she gave her three children.

Kapalova chose to give her children an appendage to their first name that comes from her first name, or a matronymic, rather than a patronymic, the father's first name, as required by law. Patronymics are a<

New Zealand's health system now has thousands more health workers thanks to new visa pathways put in place by this Government, Immigration Minister Andrew Little says.

"A year on since the borders reopened more than 6300 overseas health workers have joined our health workforce through the Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme and the Green List Straight to Residence pathways.<

Russian crude supplies reached latest peak in June, statistics have shown

Russian oil exports to India climbed to a new peak last month, having risen for ten consecutive months, data from commodities analytics firm Kpler showed on Monday.

Daily shipments to the South Asian country surged to 2.2 million

More than 50 asylum seekers, most of whom have disabilities, are being warehoused in a former care home in Essex, England, without access to adequate support and services.

The UK government opened the site, which can