Day: November 12, 2025

Seoul: Journalists from across Southeast Asia and the Republic of Korea gathered to share insights on enhancing regional collaboration during the ASEAN-Korea Media Forum 2025, a key event of ASEAN-Korea Week 2025. According to Philippines News Agency, the forum brought together journalists, policymakers, and media professionals to strengthen cooperation and mutual understanding in diplomacy, culture, and communication, underscoring the vital role of media in deepening the ASEAN-Korea Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Journalists were welcomed by ASEAN-Korea Center Secretary General Kim Jae-shin and Korea Press Foundation Executive Director Nam Jeong-ho. During discussions, journalists from Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, and three from Korea

Manila: The International Chess Federation (FIDE): filed a formal complaint Tuesday against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik over repeated public accusations of cheating against two fellow grandmasters. According to Philippines News Agency, the complaint was submitted to FIDE’s Ethics and Disciplinary Commission and names Kramnik as the respondent. It cites a pattern of conduct over roughly two years involving American Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky and Czech Grandmaster David Navara. Naroditsky, who was the 2013 World Junior Champion and a chess commentator, died at the age of 29 on October 20. The cause of his death has not been disclosed. Kramnik had

Baguio: The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has distributed 11,750 fingerlings to city residents here as part of its effort to promote food sustainability and strengthen local fish production. ‘Food produced for the family is a big help in making the fish supply of the region sustainable,’ June Lois Balag-ey, regional director of the BFAR in the Cordillera Administrative Region (BFAR-CAR), said in a phone interview on Wednesday. According to Philippines News Agency, the fingerlings-9,600 tilapia and 2,150 catfish-were distributed to 58 beneficiaries from April to October this year, including members of the San Andreas Strawberry Growers Association,

Manila: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the global energy system faces its ‘broadest test in decades,’ as overlapping risks stretch from fuel markets to supply chains and digital infrastructure. According to Philippines News Agency, in its World Energy Outlook 2025, released Tuesday, the Paris-based agency said the world has entered what it calls the ‘Age of Electricity’ — a period when power demand is rising faster than total energy use, reshaping economies and exposing new vulnerabilities. ‘The world has never faced energy security pressures across so many fronts at once, from oil and gas to grids, data,

Manila: Heavy rains during the third quarter of the year helped lift revenues of publicly-listed run-of-river hydropower developer Repower Energy Development Corp. (REDC) to PHP526.7 million, the company announced Wednesday. According to Philippines News Agency, in a disclosure with the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), REDC, a subsidiary of Pure Energy Holding, said revenues rose 33 percent from PHP396.6 million in the same period last year. Net income surged by 110 percent to PHP226.1 million, from the year-ago’s PHP107.7 million. For the third quarter alone, revenues went up 43 percent to PHP167 million, and net income increased by 527.73 percent to