Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced a trillion-yen aid package for the Philippines, spread over 5 years, to help with the country’s infrastructure projects. Abe announced the package, worth about 8.7 billion dollars, at a meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the country’s capital Manila on Thursday. The money comprises official development assistance […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has set foot in Manila for a two-day state visit in the country. Abe landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 around 2:50 p.m. aboard a Japanese Air Force plane from Tokyo. He was accompanied by his wife Akie Abe. The Japanese prime minister, his wife and his […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Philippines, Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam on a six-day trip from Thursday, the Japanese government said. “This trip will further strengthen (Japan’s) cooperative relations with each country as well as emphasizing the importance of building coordination with countries in the Asia-Pacific (region) for a free and open world order based […]
Philippine seismologists say an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck under the Celebes Sea off the country’s south but was far too deep to cause any damage and casualties or generate a tsunami. Renato Solidum of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology says the quake, which was set off by movement of oceanic […]
Two Japanese naval vessels made a port call on the Philippines on Wednesday, ahead of the planned visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in mid-January. The destroyers Inazuma and Suzutsuki of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force docked at Subic Bay in the western part of Luzon, the country’s main island, for supply replenishment, maintenance […]
A powerful typhoon is crossing the northern Philippine island of Luzon, after making landfall on Sunday night. Typhoon Nock-ten was moving west at 25 kilometers per hour about 100 kilometers south of the capital, Manila, as of 8 AM on Monday. The typhoon has an atmospheric pressure of 950 hectopascals at its center. Maximum gusts […]
Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada said Wednesday his company is looking to hire about 20,000 Filipinos in the next two years for his $2.4 billion integrated resort and casino in Entertainment City. Okada Manila is expected to create an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 jobs in the first phase of development, which opened for preview on Wednesday. […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will travel to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown of Davao when he visits the country next month, making it a “very significant and unique” trip, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said Thursday. In an interview, Yasay said Abe’s planned three-day visit, which reciprocates one made by Duterte to Japan in October, is […]
Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte says he personally killed criminals when he was mayor. Duterte said in a speech in Manila on Monday that when he was the mayor of Davao City, he would go looking for criminals and kill them to set an example for police officers. Local media reported the remark on Wednesday. A […]
Malacañang has declared Dec. 26, 2016 and January 2, 2017 as special non-working days in the country to “give the people full opportunity to celebrate the holidays with their families and loved ones.” The declaration was made through Proclamation No. 117 released on Wednesday and signed by acting executive secretary Menardo Guevarra. Dec. 25 or […]
