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4 авг в 5:00 Newsweek Пекин приветствует российских военных для проведения совместных стратегических учений на территории Китайской Народной Республики, которые пройдут на следующей неделе в рамках укрепляющихся связей между Пекином и Москвой, пишет Newsweek. В минувшие выходн�...

Published July 29, 2021, 1:54 PM Pangilinan-led PXP Energy Corporation is now ready to advance on its drilling plan for two exploratory wells at its awarded oil and gas block at the Recto Bank, a petroleum basin under Service Contract (SC) 72 that is part of the diplomatically-strained territory in the West Philippine Sea. PXP Energy Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan indicated that the company “is ready to go in terms of (drilling) exploratory wells – two wells – and further surveys of the co...

Citizen journalist Already grappling with a deadly third wave of COVID-19 infections in a health crisis made worse by chaos from the military coup, southern Myanmar was inundated by severe flooding over the weekend that hampered the efforts of healthcare workers and aid groups. Heavy rains battered the southern states of Kayin and Mon and Tanintharyi region beginning on Sunday, impacting as many as 3,000 people. More than 100 in Kayin’s Hlaingbwe had to be evacuated, according t...

Published July 25, 2021, 2:22 PM The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) paid its final tribute to the late former President Benignoy Aquino III on Saturday, July 24. Three volleys of fire are fired by military personnel as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ends its 30-day mourning and pays its final tribute to the late former President Benigno Aquino III at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on July 24, 2021. (Photo courtesy of AFP) Lt. Gen. Erickson Gloria, AFP vice chief of staff, presi...

Published July 21, 2021, 1:59 PM The further development of Pagasa (Thitu) Island and Kalayaan (Spratly) Island Group or KIG will get a much needed boost from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to ensure the protection of the country’s maritime interests in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). AFP Chief Gen. Cirilito Sobejana made the commitment on Wednesday, July 21, as he acknowledged the need for Pagasa Island to be converted into a “logistics hub” for the “protection of the KIG’s...

Published July 14, 2021, 10:59 AM Simularity, the United States-based geospatial intelligence company that disclosed the alleged dumping of raw sewage from hundreds of ships in the Spratlys, has welcomed any investigation into the methods and results that they use in the wake of allegations that their report is “not true” and “fake”. “We welcome investigation into the methods and results of our research, as it is all reproducible, based on publicly available sources, and the approach...

Two explosions took place in the high security zone of the Air Force Station in Jammu in the early hours of Sunday.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines will hold simultaneous gun salutes on Saturday for former President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III or PNoy, a military official said.

Benigno ‘PNoy’ Aquino III laid to rest

Four Australian Federal Police (AFP) members will today receive accolades in the Queen's Birthday Honours.  Detective Superintendent Gail...