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COTABATO CITY — Leaders of two Moro fronts that have separate compacts with Malacañang and representatives of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. broke bread and dined together in separate iftar banquets where they agreed to continue pushing the Mindanao peace process forward.
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Thursday declared April 10, 2024, Wednesday a regular holiday throughout the Philippines for the observance of the Islamic holiday of Eid'l Fitr.
MANILA: The Philippines will hold joint naval drills with the United States, Japan and Australia, two diplomatic sources told AFP Thursday, as the four countries deepen military ties to counter China's expanding influence in the Asia-Pacific region.The exercise will be held Sunday in the disputed South China Sea -- which Beijing claims almost entirely -- days before US President Joe Biden is due to hold the first trilateral summit with the leaders of the Philippines and Japan.
MANILA, Philippines — Idineklarang "unconstitutional" ng Korte Suprema ang proklamasyon ni dating Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na nagbabasura sa amnestiyang iginawad noon kay ex-Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.
PARIS, France — The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and despite uplifting progress in the Amazon, the picture elsewhere is less rosy, researchers said on Thursday.
DigiPlus [PLUS 12.04, up 1.4%; 155% avgVol] [link] President Andy Tsui guided that PLUS hopes to capture 50% of the P60 billion in gross gaming revenue growth that PAGCOR expects for FY24, and that it is looking to increase its active user base by 25% to 50% to achieve this goal. PLUS revealed that it ended FY23 with 20 million active users, and that it would target provincial users and especially those in the 30-to-40-year-old demographic. Mr. Tsui said that PLUS is allotting P1.5 billion to P2.0 billion for capex this year to rejuvenate some of its aging games and launch new games to appeal to that slightly older demographic. Mr. Tsui also guided investors that revenue growth in FY24 would not be as bombastic as FY23, where PLUS shareholders benefitted from a 306% increase in revenue, due to the high bar of that previous performance.
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) ruled in favor of former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, affirming the validity of his amnesty and deeming the proclamation revoking it unconstitutional.
(UPDATE) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed Erwin Erfe, the current director of the Public Attorney's Office Forensics Laboratory Division (PAO-FLD), as the agency's new deputy chief.