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The United States government had sought the help of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to secure documents to be used in filing a case against former poll body chief Andy Bautista who is reportedly facing money-laundering and bribery charges relating to contracts for the 2016 elections.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Picketing began Wednesday at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 health care workers went on strike in Virginia, California and three other states over wages and staffing shortages, marking the latest major labor unrest in the United States.
China's increasingly aggressive maritime manoeuvres in the South China Sea, not only against Vietnam but also Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia, is pushing the communist government in Hanoi closer to its former rival the United States.
WASHINGTON, United States — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a US court on Monday that Google's dominance of the search engine market made it very hard for rivals to emerge, hitting out sharply at the business practices of his company's archrival.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines and the United States launched annual joint naval war games on Monday, days after the latest diplomatic row between Manila and Beijing over the disputed South China Sea.
The Philippine economic team, headed by Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno, kicked off the US-Canada Non-Deal Roadshow (NDR) with a series of meetings with American asset management firms and fixed income investors on July 10, 2023 at the Citi Headquarters in New York City.
The economic managers successfully brought their US-Canada non-deal roadshow to a close on July 14, 2023 (Eastern Daylight Time). Composed of a series of roundtable meetings in New York (July 10-12) and Toronto (July 12-14), the non-deal roadshow served as an opportunity for investors to learn more about the Philippines’ growth outlook, economic and fiscal policy environment, investment opportunities, and growth engines in the medium and long term.
HONG KONG, China — Asian markets were mostly lower Monday as relief over the US Congress passing a last-minute deal to avoid a government shutdown gave way to renewed concerns over interest rates.