The global ranking of the Philippines in providing digital and financial inclusion improved to sixth place this year from 15th last year amid the reforms being pursued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), according to a report by Washington-based think tank Brookings Institution. Based on the 2016 Financial and Digital Inclusion Project report titled […]
A safari park employee in Gunma Prefecture died Tuesday after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said. An Asian black bear was seen climbing into a small vehicle at the Gunma Safari Park in Tomioka, and attacking park employee Kiyomi Saito inside the car, a […]
NASA’s Terra satellite flew over Tropical Storm Chanthu as it continued moving past the big island of Japan and staying to the east of the country. On August 15 at 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC) the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) indicated that Chanthu was located about 424 nautical miles south-southeast of Yokosuka, Japan, near […]
Hundreds of Japanese and Filipinos have come together to remember people who died in the Philippines during World War Two.About 200 people took part in the ceremony on Monday, August 15th, the day Japan marks the end of the war.They gathered at a monument built by the Japanese government outside the capital Manila. Participants included […]
Hitachi Zosen will construct a garbage-burning power plant in the Manila metropolitan area, the Philippines’ first such facility. The project carries a price tag of around 40 billion yen ($395 million), including the initial investment and costs for running the facility for two decades. The Japanese plant engineering company will create a special-purpose company to […]
Japan on Friday announced it is pouring $2.4 billion into a new railway aimed at easing Manila’s notorious gridlock. Japan, the Philippines’ top trading partner and source of aid, said the 38-kilometer (24-mile) elevated commuter line would connect Manila to nearby Bulacan province to decongest the capital and help spur economic activity. “This is one […]
The Japanese government is looking into the possibility of relaxing its restrictive hiring rules for Filipino health care workers who would attend to its greying population. Masato Ohtaka, deputy press secretary of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, confirmed that since his government opened the hiring of Filipino nurses and caregivers, the required number of health care workers […]
The Philippines’ firebrand President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked a fresh diplomatic row with his colourful language, calling the US ambassador “gay” in comments that prompted Washington to summon Manila’s envoy to complain. In the latest of series of tirades, Duterte used a local Tagalog language homophobic slur to express his displeasure with US Ambassador Philip […]
The United States on Tuesday expressed concern over the spate of extrajudicial killings and detentions in the Philippines, which under President Rodrigo Duterte has undertaken a crackdown on drugs and criminality. Elizabeth Trudeau, director of the United States Department of State’s press office, said Washington urges the Philippines to follow legal and human rights principles in its efforts […]
The western Japanese city of Nagasaki commemorates the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing on Tuesday.The city was hit August 9th, 1945 by an American bomber, 3 days after a similar attack on Hiroshima.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and representatives from 53 countries and territories are scheduled to attend a memorial ceremony that starts at 10:35AM.Participants […]
