SEOUL – The news that novelist Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature came as a wonderful surprise to the Korean people. We feel it’s been a long time coming: Whereas Japan already has ...

AI enhances flood warnings but cannot erase risk of disaster I has supercharged weather forecasting, using a range of statistical tools to analyze years of historical data and predict patterns, and at ...

KUALA LUMPUR – “HE was in drag?” I asked a Datuk friend of mine who attended Singaporean stand-up comedian Kumar’s show in Kuala Lumpur on Friday night. My friend sent me a photograph of Kumarason ...

KUALA LUMPUR – Putrajaya will stand firm on its territorial claims in the South China Sea and continue oil exploration activities despite China’s objections, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar ...

MANILA – The Philippines and the United States held an amphibious assault exercise in Aborlan, Palawan near the West Philippine Sea on Wednesday. In a statement on Thursday, the Philippine Marine ...

These virtual assistants can in effect think for themselves and work on their own, putting them well ahead of regular AI agents such as chatbots, which often need a person to tell them what to do at ...

MANILA – Not long ago, the ultimate turncoat in modern Philippine politics slyly boasted of the so-called “Duterte magic.” His characteristically sycophant intervention came shortly after his patron, ...

BEIJING – The Taihang Mountains are steeped in cultural heritage and have been the birthplace of numerous heroes. It spans across Beijing, Hebei province, Shanxi province, and Henan province. During ...

MANILA – Former President Rodrigo Duterte will be called into a separate drug war probe that his allies in the Senate plan to initiate during the session break. The investigation will be conducted by ...

JAKARTA – Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) chairman and the youngest son of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, Kaesang Pangarep, announced the birth of his first child, a daughter, on Tuesday. Kaesang ...

According to the Directorate General of Health Services, with the new deaths and cases, the death toll rose to 223 while the total number of cases rose to 44,764, of which 25,597 are from outside ...

MANILA – Blaming teachers’ incompetence as the main cause of the crisis in Philippine education is a direct insult to the country’s teaching force. The recent results of international standardized ...