SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday estimated its second-quarter operating profit shot up more than 15-fold, as a prolonged boom in artificial intelligence computing lifted prices of memory chips.
The world’s biggest maker of memory chips expect…
BACOLOD CITY: Some 296 housing units of the Asenso Yuhum Residences-Arao in Barangay Vista Alegre in this city will soon be complete as part of the implementation of the Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino Housing (4PH) Program.
As of Friday, the ben…
MANILA: The Philippines won its first medal in the Eastern Asia Juniors and Girls Chess Championships, courtesy of a bronze from Christian Gian Karlo Arca in the Open rapid category in Karawaci-Tangerang, Indonesia on Thursday night.
The 15-year-old …
ILOILO CITY: Western Visayas recorded a 7.2 percent drop in crime incidence from January to May this year compared to the same period in 2023.
Police Regional Office (PRO) 6 (Western Visayas) Director, Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky, on Friday attributed the …
MANILA: Construction for the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) is expected to speed up with the arrival of two more tunnel boring machines (TBM) by yearend, for a total of six so far.
At the Pre-SONA (State of the Nation Address) Special over state-…
BUTUAN CITY: Two moderately strong earthquakes jolted parts of the Caraga Region on Friday.
A bulletin issued by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the first earthquake on Friday was recorded around 2:19 a.m. with …
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday held mock elections in Tawi-Tawi province, the country’s southernmost frontier, to test the new technologies to be used in the May 2025 midterm polls.
Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia, to…
TACLOBAN CITY: Farmers in the town of Biliran, Biliran, have been selling rice at only PHP20 per kilogram as a way of giving back to communities after receiving several aids from the government.
Biliran municipal agriculture officer Lemuel Antonio sa…
MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday announced the government’s plan to upgrade the Jolo Airport, the only gateway serving the province of Sulu.
During the distribution of financial assistance to farmers, fisherfolk, and families at th…