METRO MANILA – GILAS Pilipinas icon and former PBA MVP Jimmy Alapag and his family left the country for the U.S on Tuesday amid the rising cases being recorded in the country brought upon by COVID-19 pandemic. Charlie Dy, Jimmy’s long-time representative, confirmed the departure of the Alapags. Dy said that they are waiting to board fo LA. The departure …

BANGKOK –  Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday agreed to allow in foreign tourist who agree to a 14-day quarantine and will be staying in the country for atleast 90 days to help support the tourism sector badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The government will allow visas up to 270 days for long-stay tourists and they will be able to extend …

BANGKOK – Speaker Chuan Leekpai said on Thursday, that the Parliament could not punish the MP who were caught looking at “inappropriate” photo during the house meeting for the reason that it was a personal matter. Chuan said that the if a complaint was filed then the House can consider on whether the MP had violatedcode of ethics for parliamentarians. …

KUALA LUMPUR – Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob confirmed today that the government has yet to decided on whether the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) should be imposed in Sabah state’s Tawau and Lahad Datu. According to Ismail, there are currently 511,000 and 266,000 residents living in Tawau and Lahad Datu, respectively. He said that implementing the EMCO …

PETALING JAYA – The RM5 million fund given by Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd to Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in 2016 was a  “political donation” to her husband, and the party Barisan Nasional’s election campaigns, Rosmah’s former aide Datuk Rizal Mansor told the High court today. Datuk Rizal Mansor once agains testified for the prosecution against his former boss as he …

On Wednesday, the Japanese Ambassador for Indonesia Masafumi Ishii, and Chief of JICA’S representative office in Indonesia, Shinichi Yamanaka, visited the construction site for MRT Jakarta’s 201 Work Zone on the North-South route. Since June 2020, the construction of MRT Jakarta’s 201 Work Zone is the first part of the second phase of the North-South Line between Bundaran HI Station …

Minister of Home Affairs will asks General Election Commissions (KPU) to remove or revoke the rules for music concerts in the 2020 Regional Elections (Pilkada). The concert permit is judged to be a new cluster of COVID-19 virus transmission. “There are a few points or clauses which we think crucial we ask to be eliminated, such as concerts and others,” …

METRO MANILA – The food and package delivery services of Grab Philippines (Grab) announced that starting Wednesday (September 16), they will be operating 24 hours in Metro Manila. In a statement released by Grab, they said that the extension of the operating hours of its GrabExpress services was to help ease the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the businesses. …

METRO MANILA – The Philippines and Japan signed an agreement on Tuesday for a 50-billion yen (P23 billion), which the Palace can use to spend on post-disaster response efforts not only during natural calamities but also disease outbreaks. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and Japanese Ambassador Koji Haneda met yesterday to formally finalize the Post Disaster Stand-by Loan Phase …

Hong Kong demonstrators yelled out-of-court anti-government slogans as more than two dozen high-profile democracy campaigners gathered over a banned vigil to mark the attack on Tiananmen Square. Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers defied a ban on protests to mark the anniversary of the deadly repression of students calling for democracy by Beijing. The annual vigil has been held in …