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Telecommunications firm says that as most people in the Philippines use the mobile, or wireless option, the cost of connecting to the internet in the Philippines is cheaper. Globe Telecom Inc. said in a statement that the challenging topography of the country has made the Philippine’s online connectivity to be mostly based on mobile. Related PostsA Scheme Projected For Thailand’s …

Zhang Qinwen, at the peak of her eating disorder was the weight of a child. Her hair began falling out, she was unable to walk and she could barely see. “I knew that I was seriously unwell, but I did not dare go to the doctor,” the 23-year-old, now a leading campaigner in China on the issue, told AFP at …

Vietnam has agreed to prioritize Chinese nationals for its latest Covid-19 vaccines following complaint from China, says its embassy in Hanoi. The complaint came after the donation of 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China, which arrived on Sunday in Hanoi. According to Vietnam’s health ministry, the doses will be delivered to nine northern provinces for “Vietnamese people living in …

EDC, which stands for The Energy Development Corp., on Friday has listed the first tranche of its P15-billion Asean green bonds shelf registration amounting to P5 billion in the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. This established energy company said the first tranche bonds received strong demand from investors, making the issuance more than 10x oversubscribed. Related PostsASEAN’s role in resolving …

Former Philippines president “Noynoy” Aquino who is the son of two prominent pro-democracy figures in the Philippines has dies at age 61. According to his family, Aquino had renal disease and is being treated at a hospital in Manila and died on his sleep on Thursday morning. Nakakadurog ng puso ang balitang wala na si PNoy. Mabuti siyang kaibigan at …

ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi applauded the poverty relief exchanges between China and ASEAN for the recovery of the Southeast Asian countries from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a video speech during the 15th ASEAN-China Forum on Social Development and Poverty Reduction held on Tuesday, he noted that the Covid-19 outbreak has been pulling the progress made by …

ASEAN is currently in the face of the worsening regional flash points, from the South China Sea to the crisis in Myanmar. ASEAN has been established since the 1967 to promote regional stability and economic growth. It has never been integrated into powerful community like the European Union and it does not aim to be one as well, however, ASEAN …

The recent elected President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in made the unprecedented move to enhance his country’s relationship with countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2017 by presenting the “New Southern Policy” (NSP) while having a state visit in Indonesia. Creating diplomatic and multilateral economic platforms amid unpredictable geopolitics caused by the mercurial Trump administration back …

Asean should soon finalize a travel corridor framework for the safe resumption of essential business travel suggested by the Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyễn Quốc Dũng suggested. Nguyễn Quốc Dũng was speaking while addressing the Asean Joint Consultative Meeting (JCM) last Thursday which took place via videoconference chaired by Brunei, which holds the Asean Chairmanship in 2021. Related …

Nguyễn Quốc Dũng, who is the Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs has called for the ASEAN member states to have the travel corridor framework completed soon in order to have a safe reopening of essential business travel. The deputy minister was speaking while addressing the ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting (JCM) on Thursday. The event was held via video conference, …