by salefull | May 5, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Kishida seeks closer ties with Africa in bid to woo ‘Global South’ TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday he hoped to see closer ties between Japan and Africa as he seeks to win over the “Global South” ahead of a...
by salefull | May 4, 2023 | Featured Article, News
PH power grid ‘highway’ online for stable supply 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...
by salefull | May 3, 2023 | Featured Article, News
JAL flies back into the black as travel demand picks up 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. The...
by salefull | May 2, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Cool Biz campaign begins across Japan TOKYO – The government’s annual Cool Biz energy-saving campaign for late spring and summer kicked off across Japan on Monday. Some employees at the Environment Ministry wore Okinawa’s kariyushi summer shirts, Kyodo...
by salefull | Apr 28, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Female member of gov’t panel brings baby to meeting at PM’s office 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...
by salefull | Apr 27, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Arroyo proposes ‘K+10+2’ to produce job-ready grads 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. The former president, who is...
by salefull | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Tokyo company loses contact with moon lander in likely crash 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...
by salefull | Apr 25, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Japan considers expanding scope of skilled worker visa with no stay limit 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...
by salefull | Apr 24, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Poe makes final push for SIM listup as deadline nears 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...
by salefull | Apr 20, 2023 | Featured Article, News
Visitors to Japan in March at post-COVID high, lured by cherry blossoms 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...
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