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July 12, 2023 1:57 PM

China will have to lower traditional energy’s share on the basis of reliable and safe renewables.

"Commemorating our 2016 victory every year can help weaken China’s spurious claims over our own territories," Hontiveros said.

Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to become Thailand’s 30th prime minister could yet be thwarted by an army-drafted constitution specifically designed to leave the door ajar for the royalist generals and their allies to regain power, experts say.

July 12, 2023 1:25 PM

Experts have said they do not expect Mr Kerry’s trip to add much momentum to climate negotiations.

July 12, 2023 1:15 PM

The Election Commission will request that Pita be suspended as a parliamentarian pending the court’s ruling.

The Pattaya-based businessman's dismembered body turned up after he had gone missing for a week.

THE presence of El Niño does not mean that there will be no rain, according to an official of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa).

Pagasa declared on July 4 the start of El Niño which is expected to last until the first quarter of 2024.

Engr. Alfredo Quiblat, spokesperson of Pagasa, said in an interview with SunStar Cebu on Tuesday, July 11, that El Niño phenomenon is not the absence of rain, but the lack of it.

"El Niño means lack of rain, not an absence of rain," said Quiblat.

El Niño is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. (NWSSU Intern Kyle Andrei D. Acuña)

THE Cebu City Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWS) announced on Wednesday, July 12, that eligible persons with disabilities (PWDs) may claim their financial assistance on Friday, July 14.

Around 12,900 qualified PWDs in the city are anticipated to receive their financial assistance for the second quarter of this year covering the months of April, May and June.

Qualified beneficiaries are encouraged to coordinate with their respective barangay for the processing of financial aid. (NWSSU Intern Juralyn Beso Baldomaro)

THE Cebu City Department of Social Welfare and Services (DSWS) announced on Wednesday, July 12, that eligible persons with disabilities (PWDs) may claim their financial assistance on Friday, July 14.

Around 12,900 qualified PWDs in the city are anticipated to receive their financial assistance for the second quarter of this year covering the months of April, May and June.

Qualified beneficiaries are encouraged to coordinate with their respective barangay for the processing of financial aid. (NWSSU Intern Juralyn Beso Baldomaro)

Being developed to fly at nine times the speed of sound, Venus Aerospace’s planned jet will be equipped with rocket engines to climb to an altitude of 52,000 metres – more than four times as high as traditional jetliners.

Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952, but they were reintroduced last year amid much fanfare.

“It is a settled landmark and a definitive contribution to the progressive development of international law. It is ours as much as it is the world's,” the DFA said. 

July 12, 2023 11:58 AM

It said the contentious map does not depict Beijing's nine-dash line claim over the South China Sea.

A TRAFFIC enforcer in Dalaguete town, southern Cebu was arrested in a buy-bust operation in the mountain barangay of Mantalongon around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

Police Major Clemente Geralde Jr., chief of Dalaguete Police Station, identified the suspect as Nemesio Beldad Amancio, 43, a resident of Sitio Cansusi, Barangay Tapon of the said municipality.

Seized from the suspect were five packs of alleged shabu, P500 in buy-bust money and P300 believed to be the proceeds from the illegal drug trade.

Amancio will be facing charges for violating Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. (BBT, TPT)

A Chinese national changed his earlier statement, claiming that on July 10, it was not in the Carbon Public Market, where he had been kidnapped, but rather near the Compania Maritima building.

However, when the personnel at the Waterfront Police Station requested Joel Montero Co, 49, to indicate the location where he was allegedly abducted by the four unknown males, the victim led them to a mall in the North Reclamation Area in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City.

In order to determine whether the victim was telling the truth, Chief Police Colonel Ireneo Dalogdog of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) instructed his men to expand their investigation.

According to Dalogdog, if it is established that the victim made up stories, he may be charged with perjury. (AYB, TPT)

Malaysia and Singapore cancelled the plan to build a 350km rail line connecting the two countries more than two years ago after they failed to agree on several proposed changes to the project.

Senior high school graduates are more likely to earn higher wages than graduates of the old high school curriculum, a new study by a state think has found, lending new evidence in favor of K to 12's impact on students' employment prospects. 

The high court has also noted Acosta’s “unabated public tirades against Canon III, Section 22 through social and mainstream media, branding the adoption of the CPRA as unconstitutional, and an undue interference and intrusion by the [SC] into PAO’s operations.”

The moment a giant panda gave birth to twins for the first time in South Korea has been captured on camera.