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Soaring prices of onions in the Philippines led agriculture authorities to announce this weekend that the country would have to resort to importing around 22,000 tons of the vegetable by March, to augment dwindling domestic supply and arrest rising costs.
MANILA, Philippines — Oil firms are set to implement mixed price adjustments for petrol products beginning Tuesday, December 3.
US President-elect Donald Trump believes as strongly as ever that man-caused climate change is a hoax. During the election campaign, he blamed the Biden administration for the high cost of gasoline (and of everything else) for its failure to encourage fossil fuel energy production. The Biden administration countered that, actually, the US under his administration had become more than energy-sufficient, it had been exporting Made in America oil and gas. This puzzles the neutral observer: Didn't Biden run on a transition-to-clean-energy platform? Anyway, the electorate apparently trusted Trump's word rather than that of climatologists, giving him a winning majority in both popular vote and electoral college. The president-elect has already given oil and gas companies with offshore and onshore operations notice to prepare to «drill, baby, drill.»
India and China are in fierce competition to become the second global superpower. Although China is clearly the stronger nation today, India is catching up fast with its strong economy, military build up and diplomatic offensive.
MANILA, Philippines — Violent confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the South China Sea are being manipulated online by disinformation networks for profit, posing risks to regional security, an AFP investigation has found.
FOLLOWING last week's rollbacks, fuel prices are up this week due to continuing geopolitical tensions.
MANILA, Philippines — Motorists should brace for yet another spike at the pump as fuel prices are set to increase by as much as P1.15 per liter today.
HONG KONG, China — Most markets rose Monday following a record close on Wall Street as traders welcomed Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, while bitcoin's push to $100,000 ran out of steam after coming within a whisker of the mark at the end of last week.
The escalating war in Ukraine is already sending chills down the spine of many people, most especially those in Europe.