TOKYO, Japan At a workshop in Tokyo, a dozen or so tourists watched as green and white wax was poured into warm water. As the liquid turned into a sheet, they were then asked to slowly pull it up and roll it, gasping at its transformation into a let...

MANILA, Philippines Senators have removed more than P50 billion worth of lump sum increases in the proposed funding for the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) next year. The lump sums were contained in the 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB...

MANILA, Philippines — Alleged flying voters in San Juan City took the center stage of the Senate’s deliberations on the proposed funding of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) held Monday. Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada c...

INQUIRER FILES Record earnings in the banking business lifted the nine-month net profit of Ayala Corp., the country’s oldest conglomerate, by 5 percent to P34 billion. Excluding one-time gains, the Zobel family-led firm’s core earnings c...

Officials of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) presented a united front when they defended their 2025 budget before the House of Representatives. But the facade has long dropped, no thanks to troubling internal strife that is being closely watc...

(FILES) A woman walks out of a 7-Eleven convenience store along a street in central Tokyo on August 22, 2024. – The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven is considering going private by buying back its own shares in a bid to avoid a takeover attempt by C...

November 2013. Tacloban, Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, known as Super Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record. FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines Eleven years after tropical cyclone Haiyan, otherwise kn...

Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez. | FILE PHOTO: Gabriel P. Lalu/ INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines Philippine Ambassador to the United States (US) Jose Manuel Babe Romualdez said it would be better for undocumented Filipinos in t...