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Oct 7, 2026
Recent Middle East conflict and oil price volatility have highlighted Thailand’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, prompting calls to accelerate its clean energy transition. A seminar involving energy experts, policymakers, and industry representatives concluded that reducing fossil fuel dependence is now an economic and security necessity, not just an environmental goal, with ASEAN neighbors facing […]
The number of jobless Filipinos decreased by over 375,000 in August 2026, data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Wednesday showed.
Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) recorded a loss in September but still made overall gains of nearly HK$100 billion (US$12.8 billion) over the first nine months of the year, according to data from MPF Ratings released on Wednesday. The 382 investment funds under the MPF schemes delivered a 6.2 per cent average return in the first nine months, despite losing 1.47 per cent in September, the consultancy found. In monetary terms, they earned HK$96.9 billion over the first three quarters...
Phuket has won Air Canada Vacations’ 2026 Travellers’ Top Picks Award for Wellness, voted for by Canadian travellers.
Oct 6, 2026
Japanese, South Korean and Thai brands have increased their share of new entrants in Hong Kong’s retail property market by 7 percentage points to more than one-third in the first nine months of 2026, while the demand for shops from mainland Chinese brands has slipped, according to Cushman & Wakefield. A slew of new brands helped lift the combined share of Japanese, South Korean and Thai brands to a three-year high, according to Cushman, which said it expected the trend to continue. This year,...
WASHINGTON, United States - The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that price increases for necessities like food and energy, fueled by the wars in Iran and Ukraine, were more persistent than previously expected.
Kerry Properties has won a land plot in Ho Man Tin for HK$4.31 billion (US$549 million), the highest price paid for a residential site in Kowloon in nearly five years, as developers show confidence in demand for luxury homes. The site on Fat Kwong Street sold at HK$20,738 per square foot of gross floor area, the highest land premium for a residential site in recent years, according to Vincent Cheung, managing director of valuation firm Vincorn Consulting and Appraisal. The last time a Kowloon...
Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura on Tuesday said that Cale88 Foods Corporation, a company linked to Mans Carpio, husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, had aggregate transactions amounting to P1.25 billion from 2022 to 2025.
On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In Beijing, Xiaomi engineers went live with an unusual broadcast, streaming the training run of their new MiMo-V2.6 model. In San Francisco, Anthropic unveiled its frontier Opus 5.5 model. About an hour later, OpenAI crashed the party with the surprise release of its GPT-6 Sol and Luna models. For tech executives and developers trying to keep pace, it was just another overwhelming day in the...
GCash parent Mynt Inc. on Tuesday clarified that the earlier reported P10 per share price for its initial public offering (IPO) was just for regulatory purposes only.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said Tuesday that the threat of a very strong El Niño, which may persist until the first half of 2027, is not enough reason to raise commodity prices as the country supposedly has sufficient food supplies.
Philippine financial markets closed weaker on Tuesday as market players digested government data showing inflation accelerating to 7.2% in September, matching the fastest pace in more than three years and above market expectations.
