Palace seeks balanced approach to social media franchise plan
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Friday called for a balanced approach to a proposal to require social media platforms to obtain a congressional franchise to operate in the Philippines. Palace Pres...
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Hyundai Motor poised to rank No. 3 in US quarterly sales, closing in on Ford
Hyundai Motor Group is poised to overtake Ford Motor in quarterly vehicle sales in the United States for the first time, underscoring the growing presence of the Korean automaker in the world’s larges...
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China routes emerge as key revenue source for struggling Korean LCCs
China is emerging as a critical earnings lifeline for Korea’s struggling low-cost carriers (LCCs), offering them access to fast-growing passenger demand and lucrative business traffic as growth in oth...
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Coupang dispute raises stakes in Korea's $350 bil. US investment talks
Korean regulators’ hardline stance toward Coupang is complicating Seoul’s talks with Washington over the next stages of its planned $350 billion investment in the United States. The latest development...
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Trump: Xi 'seemed to like' calling AI 'super intelligence'
President Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to like referring to artificial intelligence as “super intelligence” days after Trump announced the U.S. would be using the ne...
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Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas could help researchers find the genetic causes of diseases
AlphaGenome Atlas contains predictions for the molecular effects of all roughly 9 billion possible single-letter changes in human DNA. Researchers can search the database to see how individual variant...
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Ecosystem Roundup: Seoul tops AI implementation as Singapore joins the global top tier
San Francisco and New York still lead The Observer‘s inaugural AI Cities Index, but the more consequential finding sits further east. Six of the world’s top 10 AI cities are in East and Southeast Asia...
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Xi at White House, trade-war truce extension, Golden Week travel
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi s...
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Xiaomi 18 Pro Full Specs, Features, Price In Philippines
Here’s The Complete List of Specifications, Features, & Price of the Xiaomi 18 Pro The Xiaomi 18 Pro was officially announced on September 23, 2026. The 5G-ready smartphone is fueled with a Si/C Li-Io...
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What MARINA’s system failure reveals about government readiness
MANILA, Philippines — In the digital age, it only takes one cyberattack to bring a government service to a halt. When the Maritime Industry Authority’s (MARINA) seafarer document system was hit, the d...
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