MANILA, Philippines — The country now has a unified power highway with the activation of the P52-billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP), finally enabling electricity supply from generation plants anywhere in the country to be distributed across the archipelago’s three main island groups.

TOKYO – Japan Airlines logged Tuesday an annual net profit for the first time in three years, buoyed by soaring domestic and international demand for travel after pandemic restrictions were eased.

TOKYO – The government’s annual Cool Biz energy-saving campaign for late spring and summer kicked off across Japan on Monday.

TOKYO -A female member of a government panel participated in a meeting at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s office with her two-month-old baby on Thursday, with the cabinet pledging to take necessary measures to promote women’s empowerment.

MANILA, Philippines — Senior Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is proposing the conversion of the current K-12 basic education curriculum into what she called the “K+10+2” program.

TOKYO – A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened.

TOKYO – Japan’s immigration authorities on Monday proposed expanding the scope of a blue-collar skilled workers visa that effectively allows holders to stay in the country indefinitely in a possible major shift in its foreign labor policy.

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Grace Poe issued last-minute appeals to mobile phone subscribers to enlist their subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and to telecommunication firms and state agencies to ratchet up the list-up effort three days before the April 26 deadline.

TOKYO – Visitors to Japan surged in March to their highest after the COVID-19 pandemic, official data showed on Wednesday, with overseas tourists flocking to see the nation’s famous cherry blossoms for the first time in four years as travel curbs eased.

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that their countries will work together to realize a successful Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima next month.