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Manila | Tuesday | January 28, 2025 Coast guard and fisheries officials from the Philippines, United States, Vietnam, and Indonesia recently conducted joint maritime law enforcement training aimed at improving their ability to respond to maritime threats, the US Embassy in Manila reported on Monday. The two-week training, held on Mindanao, a southern island in […]

Saturday | January 25, 2025 Do airport security lines seem to stretch endlessly, or are you finding yourself booking hotels far earlier than before? You’re not imagining it. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), global tourism has roared back to life post-pandemic. In 2024, approximately 1.4 billion people traveled internationally—an impressive 99%

Monday | January 20, 2025 Donald Trump is set to exercise an unprecedented display of presidential power on his first day as the 47th president, aiming to reshape America’s trajectory by sundown on Monday. Forced indoors by freezing weather for his swearing-in, Trump has planned an onslaught of hardline executive orders targeting immigration, energy production,

Thu, January 16, 2025 Qatar and the United States announced Wednesday a ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, adding that they hoped it would pave the way for a permanent end to the war in Gaza. After mediators said a deal had been reached, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said

Monday | January 13, 2025 Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying the names should be changed back. In a variety of media appearances between 2021 and 2024 that CNN analyzed, Hegseth, a veteran of

Thu December 26, 2024 This time last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the doldrums. According to political analyst Nadav Shtrauchler, who has collaborated extensively with Netanyahu, “he started very low.” “The lowest point in his life.” On October 7, the bloodiest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, he was accused by many

Hong Kong/Taipei | Mon October 14, 2024 Taiwan has condemned the latest round of Chinese military drills around the self-governing island as an “unreasonable provocation” after Beijing deployed warships and fighter jets in what it described as a “stern warning” to “separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces.”The exercises, which involve joint operations of the army,

Tokyo | Sat June 8, 2024 Yu felt a rush of excitement as she walked into his bar for the first time – eager to meet the charming young host she’d been following for years online. They had a conversation over champagne on that chilly January night of last year, which was the first of

Qatar, Doha | Tue May 14, 2024 Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder and she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen. “Whatever happens to me, happens to him,” she says