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Phl, Japan Renew Bilateral Currency Swap Deal

The Philippines and Japan have renewed an agreement to trade one currency for another at a preset rate over a given period.

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January 12, 2025
Hoey shines with 56-foot eagle putt
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Hoey shines with 56-foot eagle putt

The Philippines' Rico Hoey sizzled with a six-under 64 spiked by a roaring eagle on the last hole to leap to within three off the pace halfway through the Sony Open Friday in Hawaii.

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January 12, 2025
Australian Open: Eyes on Jannik, Aryna
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Australian Open: Eyes on Jannik, Aryna

Jannik Sinner will try to put a doping scandal behind him when he kicks off his Australian Open defense against Nicolas Jarry while Aryna Sabalenka's bid for a hat-trick of titles starts on Sunday against Sloane Stephens.

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January 12, 2025
Redick gets emotional losing home
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Redick gets emotional losing home

Los Angeles Lakers coach J.J. Redick says he hopes the team's eventual return to play can \"give people hope\" after seeing his Pacific Palisades home incinerated in the deadly wildfires that have ravaged the city.

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January 12, 2025
Anger, resentment rise in LA over fire response
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Anger, resentment rise in LA over fire response

After being largely reduced to ashes by wildfire, Altadena was being patrolled by National Guard soldiers on Friday.

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January 12, 2025
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Sinag Liga Asya unfolds

Sinag Liga Asya has launched another tournament for the further growth and development of Philippine basketball, partnering this time around with the Department of Justice and other government agencies in a hoop slugfest starting today.

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January 12, 2025
Wishing for more Pinoy world champs
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Wishing for more Pinoy world champs

GAB chairman Atty. Francisco Rivera's wish for the new year is the ascension of more Filipino world boxing champions and from all indications, it may come true.

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January 12, 2025
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Local charge in Phl Open stays strong

After getting Asia's oldest national championship rebooted this year, the organizing National Golf Association of the Philippines is leaving no stone unturned trying to lure the country's best players and keep the Smart Infinity Philippine Open title on home soil.

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January 12, 2025
BTS Member J-Hope Announces First Solo Tour
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BTS Member J-Hope Announces First Solo Tour

Smooth like butter, like a superstar about to hit the road. BTS member J-Hope (in photo) will embark on his first solo tour next month.

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January 12, 2025
Jeju Air black boxes stopped recording before crash
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Jeju Air black boxes stopped recording before crash

The black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said yesterday.

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January 12, 2025
Israel strikes Yemen Houthis, warns it will hunt leaders
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Israel strikes Yemen Houthis, warns it will hunt leaders

Israel struck Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, including a power station and coastal ports, in response to missile and drone launches, as it warned it would hunt down the group's leaders.

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January 12, 2025
Thousands protest as SoKor president digs heels in
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Thousands protest as SoKor president digs heels in

Thousands of South Koreans began gathering in the capital for rival demonstrations yesterday, as investigators prepare another attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree.

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January 12, 2025
Trump Gets No Penalty in Hush Money Case
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Trump Gets No Penalty in Hush Money Case

US president-elect Donald Trump was sentenced on Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

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January 12, 2025
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Vatican OKs Italian guidelines allowing gay men to be priests

The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church considers possible future priests.

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January 12, 2025
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Gov't work, classes in Davao suspended tomorrow

Classes and work in government offices are suspended in this city tomorrow to pave the way for a peace rally of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC).

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January 12, 2025
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PNP spokesperson named Central Luzon police chief

Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo, spokesperson for the Philippine National Police (PNP), has been named Central Luzon police director.

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January 12, 2025
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Increased ground swelling seen in Kanlaon

State seismologists have noted a significant increase in the ground swelling and pressurization at Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island.

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January 12, 2025
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Palace Declares Holidays in 4 Luzon, Visayas Areas

Malacañang has issued four proclamations declaring non-working holidays in a town in Leyte and three areas in Luzon.

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January 12, 2025
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SEAG Gold Medalist's Slay Suspect Charged

Criminal charges have been filed against a suspect in the killing of Southeast Asian Games (SEAG)'s gold medalist Mervin Guarte.

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January 12, 2025
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Portions of Mindanao Avenue to be closed until 2028

Some portions of Mindanao Avenue in Quezon City would become off-limits to motorists starting today until 2028 to give way for the construction of the Tandang Sora station of the Metro Manila Subway Project or MMSP.

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January 12, 2025
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Metro Manila LGUs to resell NFA rice

To widen the availability of affordable rice in markets, the National Food Authority (NFA) would sell some of its rice stocks to local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila.

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January 12, 2025
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Classes, gov't work suspended in QC on Monday

The Quezon City government has suspended face-to-face classes in public schools and work in local government offices on Monday in support of the \"National Rally for Peace\" organized by Iglesia ni Cristo (INC).

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January 12, 2025
Random thoughts on the world today
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Random thoughts on the world today

Today, instead of one topic, I want to share a few random thoughts with my readers.

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January 12, 2025
Beginning again
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Beginning again

As another year begins, I'd like to honor the lives and legacy of two great men who embodied the spirit of peace and humanitarian work.

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January 12, 2025
'Real ID' deadline is May 7, 2025
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'Real ID' deadline is May 7, 2025

Starting May 7, 2025, US travelers must be Real ID compliant to board domestic flights and access certain federal facilities.

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January 12, 2025
Bankers' Night
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Bankers' Night

If, hypothetically, a bomb exploded at Fort San Antonio Abad last Friday or if the earth beneath it suddenly disappeared, the country's banking community would surely collapse.

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January 12, 2025
Top global risks in 2025
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Top global risks in 2025

Over the years, I have developed good relations with a wide range of think tanks in Washington, D.C. But one that I particularly look forward to receiving information from is Eurasia Group founder and president Ian Bremmer, who has become a personal friend.

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January 12, 2025
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Addressing poverty

Amid all the long-running state-funded dole-out programs for the poor, a survey conducted by pollster Social Weather Stations Inc. showed that self-rated poverty rose to 63 percent in December last year.

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January 12, 2025
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No chance of subsidy to SSS under 2025 budget

The national government should not subsidize the one percentage point increase in the monthly contribution of members of the Social Security System (SSS) since there is no provision for it under the 2025 national budget, Baguio City Rep. Mark Go said yesterday.

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January 12, 2025
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Road Mishaps Claim 35 Lives Daily

BHW party-list Rep. Angelica Natasha Co said over the weekend that 35 people died per day, or 12,690 died yearly, due to road crash incidents in the country.

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January 12, 2025