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MANILA (Reuters) -- The Philippines is allocating 256.1 billion pesos ($4.38 billion) for defense spending in 2025, the budget ministry said on Monday, up 6.4% from this year's budget as the country seeks to modernize and boost its external defenses.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Protests over skyrocketing power bills shut down a major road into Pakistan’s capital on Monday as some 3,000 supporters of a major Islamist party continued a sit-in despite pouring monsoon rains.
McDonald's on Monday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts' expectations as same-store sales declinedacross every division.
VIENTIANE/TOKYO -- North Korea's lack of high-level representation at yet another ASEAN-hosted conference suggests that Pyongyang is avoiding multilateral venues as it pursues closer relations with President Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Don McLain Gill is a Philippines-based geopolitical analyst, author, and lecturer at the Department of International Studies, De La Salle University.
TOKYO (AP) — Top diplomats from Japan, the U.S., Australia and India meeting Monday in Tokyo compiled a set of measures to reinforce maritime safety and cybersecurity and to support other Asia-Pacific countries in improving their defenses during growing tensions in the regional seas.
Hundreds of protesters and bystanders were hit in the eyes by pellets fired by security forces, and might lose vision forever — a lasting marker of the mayhem that engulfed the nation earlier this month.
MANILA: The Philippines on Saturday (Jul 27) completed unimpeded a resupply trip to its troops at a disputed South China Sea shoal, its foreign ministry said, the first such mission under a new arrangement with China aimed at cooling tensions.