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MANILA-The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday said four presidential and three vice presidential candidates have so far confirmed their attendance to the panel interview sessions to be aired by the poll body and the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) next week. Comelec Commissioner George Garcia urged all presidential and vice presidential bets to attend the event. "We are really asking them to participate, other than the fact that this is their last hurrah. The KBP has 1,000 (members), try to imagine this opportunity," he said in a press briefing. "They a...

On Saturday last week, the Chinese state-run Global Times ran an article titled “What else can Taiwanese eat?” about rising food prices. Using egg prices as its main example, the article said the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government was letting Taiwanese suffer, while doing nothing to curb the problem. Interestingly, the article quoted Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康): “With nearly every commodity on the rise, what else can Taiwanese eat?” Jaw had earlier written the statement on Facebook in a post in which he accused Council of Agriculture Ministe...

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has spoken with Solomon Islands Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeremiah Manele on plans for an US embassy in the Pacific country after news of a draft security pact with China emerged in the past few weeks. The two officials also talked about “joint efforts to broaden and deepen engagement between our countries in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region,” US Department of State spokesman Ned Price said in a statement on Tuesday. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in February said that the US planned to open an embassy in Honiara, the island

For years, Japanese voters opposed calls for a stronger defense against the country’s nuclear-armed neighbors. Now, public opinion is shifting, even as obstacles remain to meaningful action to bolster the country’s security. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has caused many in Japan to re-examine the chances of armed conflict over East Asia’s unresolved territorial disputes. Polls show voters are worried that a failure to halt Russia could embolden China to take action against Taiwan or to seize disputed East China Sea islands administered by Japan. Tokyo also has ...

MAYORAL hopeful Michael T. Defensor has dared Mayor Joy Belmonte on a debate on the issues concerning the “future” of Quezon City. Defensor issued the challenged over the weekend as Belmonte raised the closure of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. during the Serbisyo sa Bayan Party’s (SBP) proclamation rally and his distribution…