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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?”
Trump's trade war salvo rocks markets
Reuters, Published on 03/02/2025
» SINGAPORE - Investors bought dollars, sold stocks and fretted about inflation on Monday in a scramble to assess the risk of a trade war after Donald Trump put tariffs on top US trading partners.
Energy majors go slow on green transition despite pressure
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» PARIS - Most oil majors are stepping up investment in green energy amid rising activist pressure but without abandoning fossil fuels, putting at risk reaching carbon neutrality in 2050.
Climate activists put the heat on shareholder meetings
AFP, Published on 17/05/2023
» PARIS - Climate activists are using shareholder meetings to turn up the heat on corporations about their carbon footprints, from flooding them with questions to more colourful tactics like singing or throwing cake at executives.
JPMorgan sues former exec over Jeffrey Epstein links
AFP, Published on 10/03/2023
» NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase is suing former high-level executive Jes Staley over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, naming him as the official involved in a sexual assault case against the firm, court filings showed.
UK police lift lid on largest ever counter-fraud operation
AFP, Published on 24/11/2022
» LONDON - UK police on Thursday said their biggest ever counter-fraud operation had disrupted an international criminal network targeting hundreds of thousands of victims in millions of spam phone calls.
NBA star Irving 'doing what's best for me' in declining Covid vaccine
AFP, Published on 14/10/2021
» NEW YORK - Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving says he's "doing what's best for me" in declining a Covid-19 vaccine, a move that will see him sidelined from NBA play.
UK banks face climate conflicts of interest: study
AFP, Published on 09/03/2021
» LONDON - British banks face potential conflicts of interest over climate change because almost 80 percent of board members have links with high-polluting sectors, a study showed on Tuesday.
India tops four million virus cases as pandemic rages
AFP, Published on 06/09/2020
» NEW DELHI: India has become the third country to pass four million coronavirus infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases on Saturday as the pandemic showed no sign of peaking.
WHO tempers quick vaccine hopes
AFP, Published on 05/09/2020
» GENEVA: The World Health Organization says it does not expect widespread immunisation against Covid-19 until mid-2021, despite growing expectations in the United States, the worst-hit nation, that a vaccine could be released within weeks.