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Inside the Philippines’ $2-billion flood-control scandal
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/12/2025
» Senator Francis Pangilinan leaned into his microphone and fired off numbers in pesos: 50 million? 10 million? 100 million? “You withdrew this in cash?”
Philippine flood-graft losses ‘could reach trillions of pesos’
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/09/2025
» The Philippines’ probe into the misuse of public funds for flood control projects could uncover trillions of pesos in losses, according to Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon, highlighting the extent of corruption that has fanned public outrage in the disaster-prone country.
Taiwan students heading to Harvard 'anxious' after US enrolment block
Reuters, Published on 25/05/2025
» TAIPEI - With an admission letter in hand, Taiwanese student Yu-hsuan Lin was ready to attend her dream school, Harvard University, this September.
Trump restates desire for Greenland as Vance criticises Denmark
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/03/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States Vice President JD Vance landed in Greenland with the clearest marching orders yet from his boss to claim the remote and resource-rich Arctic island as US territory.
Ships still on fire after North Sea collision
AFP, Published on 11/03/2025
» GRIMSBY, England - Fires were still raging on Tuesday after a cargo ship laden with toxic materials slammed into a tanker carrying flammable jet fuel in the North Sea, as questions mounted about how the accident happened.
Trump, Swift join Super Bowl party as Chiefs chase 'three-peat'
AFP, Published on 09/02/2025
» NEW ORLEANS - The Kansas City Chiefs aim for a historic hat-trick of Super Bowl titles on Sunday when they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in front of a star-studded crowd in New Orleans headed by US President Donald Trump.
Police close in to dislodge Canada capital protesters
AFP, Published on 20/02/2022
» OTTAWA: Police pushed into downtown Ottawa Saturday in a bid to dislodge several hundred dug-in protesters and big rigs that have choked the Canadian capital for weeks, after a night marked by clashes and more than 100 arrests.
May's final bid to salvage Brexit deal appears doomed
AFP, Published on 22/05/2019
» LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May's final bid to salvage her EU divorce deal appeared doomed as pro-Brexit Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party rejected her attempts at compromise.
Main UK parties suffer Brexit battering in local elections
AFP, Published on 03/05/2019
» LONDON - Britain's two main parties suffered a drubbing Friday in English local elections as voters vented their frustration with the prolonged Brexit deadlock.
Anti-Brexit protesters stage mass rally in London
AFP, Published on 24/03/2019
» LONDON: Hundreds of thousands of protesters swamped London on Saturday demanding another referendum on EU membership amid political paralysis over Brexit, in one of the country's biggest protests in decades.