MANILA, Philippines: Thousands of residents of the Philippines left their homes along the Pacific coast on Saturday as weather experts warned of coastal flooding ahead of Tropical Storm Fengshen’s landfall. The storm was forecast to hit Catanduanes, an impoverished island of 270,000 people, late Saturday with gusts of up to
SEOUL: Sixty-four South Koreans accused of involvement in cyber scam operations in Cambodia were repatriated and arrested upon arrival at Incheon International Airport yesterday, police said. The group was flown home on a chartered flight arranged after Seoul dispatched officials to Phnom Penh to negotiate their return and discuss the
WASHINGTON: A senior member of the US Federal Reserve on Friday indicated he could back another interest rate cut later this month, while urging a meeting-bymeeting approach going forward. “I could support a path with an additional reduction in the policy rate,” St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said during
PARIS, France: Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo once again topped the Forbes highest-paid footballers list for the 2025-26 season, as one of three members of the top 10 plying their trade in Saudi Arabia. It is the sixth time in the last decade that Ronaldo has topped the Forbes list and
JAKARTA, Indonesia: Patrick Kluivert’s stint as the Indonesian soccer team’s coach is over after they “mutually” agreed to part ways Thursday following a failed bid to reach the World Cup. Indonesia’s hopes of qualifying for the tournament in North America next year ended with defeats to Iraq and Saudi Arabia
MAE SOT (Thailand): Scam operations in Myanmar, blamed for defrauding victims worldwide of billions of dollars, appear to be expanding again despite earlier joint crackdowns, an AFP investigation has revealed. Satellite images and drone footage show new buildings and Starlink satellite dishes rapidly appearing inside guarded compounds near Myawaddy, along
SEOUL: About 1,000 South Koreans are believed to be working in online scam operations in Cambodia, Seoul said yesterday, with the country shaken by the torture and killing of a college student. South Korea will send a special team to the Southeast Asian country later yesterday to discuss cases of fake
DUBAI (United Arab Emirates): Couples from anywhere in the world can now get married using the Abu Dhabi government’s app without even setting foot in the emirate, the head of the project told AFP on Tuesday. The idea of online marriage is still in its infancy, with Ukraine launching a
STOCKHOLM (Sweden): The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to American-Israeli Joel Mokyr, France’s Philippe Aghion and Canada’s Peter Howitt for work on how technology drives and affects growth. Mokyr, 79, won one half of the prize “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress”,
TENANGO DE DORIA (Mexico): Rescuers scrambled Monday to reach people cut off by devastating floods that have claimed 64 lives in central and eastern Mexico, with another 65 reported missing. Torrential rains battered several Mexican states over several days last week, turning village streets into rivers, triggering landslides and sweeping
