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Tribal leader Petronila Munoz walked across the sweeping Philippine grasslands she has called home for generations, uncertain about its future, as a sprawling tech hub for a US-led initiative takes shape. With little information and no prior consultation, the indigenous chieftain said her Aeta Hungey tribe was uncertain how much of their land could be affected or what would become of the livelihood it provided. “There’s still no clarity,” Munoz said inside the tribe’s traditional meeting hall....
'Ruler should not follow politicians, otherwise the state will be ruined.'
Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam arrived in New York on Sept. 20 evening (U.S. time), beginning his participation in the High-Level General Debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81) and a series of bilateral engagements in the U.S.
Lawyer for Undang Yang Empat says sacking was unconstitutional and void.
The Philippines’ rise to upper-middle-income status was supposed to mark a new phase for one of Southeast Asia’s most closely watched emerging economies. Instead, analysts say the milestone has done little to shield the country from short-term pressures weighing on growth: sluggish public spending, delayed infrastructure, high living costs and the fallout from investigations into alleged irregularities in flood control projects. Those strains have left the Philippines looking like a regional...
'Anwar's half-baked fight against corruption not fooling anyone.'
This university is the highest-ranked among all Asian representatives in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
A 13-year-old from Hangzhou in eastern China has drawn around 500,000 social media followers and the "future Elon Musk" nickname after winning various hackathon awards by using AI to solve everyday problems.
A Ho Chi Minh City restaurant owner claims he paid a police officer more than VND1.7 billion (US$67,000) to protect his establishments' prostitution activities, but the officer allegedly pocketed the bribe.
A local man has been put under investigation over the drowning death of a then 11-year-old Japanese boy at a five-star resort in Mui Ne in central Vietnam more than four years ago.
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