MANILA, Philippines — The government’s antipoverty czar Secretary Manny Pacquiao will also get his own honorary doctorate degree. The Philippine Normal University (PNU) said the boxing champ will receive the Doctor in Physical Education and Sports, honoris causa, during a ceremony on Wednesday. READ: Marcos appoints Manny Pacquiao as anti-poverty chief According to the PNU,

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, PALAWAN, Philippines — Forty-one recovered bodies were temporarily laid to rest in Barangay San Nicolas, Coron, Palawan, on Monday as search and rescue operations continued for 12 people still missing after a fire struck M/V June Aster while approaching Coron on Sep. 9. Kristine Mechelle Ablaña, municipal tourism officer of Coron, said

TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines — Nine of 11 major irrigation systems monitored by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in Eastern Visayas have recorded below-normal water levels, prompting the agency to adjust water delivery schedules to farmers. In an advisory issued on Sept. 11, the NIA said the declining water levels were brought about by the

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China has launched a 500-tonne production line to extract rubidium and caesium from lithium waste. A demonstration line in Jiangxi province – the world’s first with an annual capacity of 500 tonnes for continuous tower extraction and separation of low-grade rubidium and caesium – has achieved stable production, according to the Institute of Process Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Rubidium and caesium are critical to aerospace, quantum computing, biomedicine, new energy...

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China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.3 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2026. Retail sales of goods and services, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, increased by 2.5 percent, fixed-asset investment dropped 7.2 percent and the surveyed urban unemployment rate averaged an unchanged 5.2 percent. For the month of August, output grew 5.2 percent from a ⁠year earlier, quickening from a 4.5 percent increase in July and beating expectations for a 4.8 percent rise, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday. Retail sales rose 0.4 percent, slowing from a 0.6 percent gain in July and below an expected 0.8 percent rise. The figures underline the continuing mismatch between resilient production and exports on one hand, and fragile household consumption and investment on the other, and raised the stakes for more stimulus measures to address the weaknesses in the economy. Extreme weather likely remained a drag on activity. Four typhoons made landfall in China during August, disrupting operations in the east-coast manufacturing and logistics belt. Beijing has ⁠responded with faster government bond issuance and expanded loan interest subsidies for small private firms and consumers, while the central bank has pledged additional policy support without signalling explicit cuts to policy rates or banks' reserve-requirement ratio. The bureau says residents' ability and willingness to spend should be enhanced and the supply of high-quality goods and services should be improved. It expects the economy to maintain steady growth even as it faces structural pressures. "September could represent an important policy window to revive business confidence ahead of ⁠October's Golden Week holidays," analysts at ANZ said. (Xinhua/Reuters) Edited by Tony Sabine