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Sep 25, 2026
Misinformation has ceased to be a system malfunction and has become part of its very logic
The US president’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump had a front-row seat at a White House welcome ceremony for President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan on Thursday, wearing a dress by Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei. Trump, in a robin’s egg blue dress and matching jacket, and her 15-year-old daughter Arabella Kushner occupied a prominent position at the ceremony, alongside Vice-President J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha Vance. The arrangement drew attention since members of Donald Trump’s cabinet...
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Friday flagged six flood control projects in Davao City as strong candidates for being ghost projects. Interviewed on Super Radyo dzBB, NBI director Melvin Matibag said that out of 100 flood control projects inspected, 51 have been red-flagged for potential irregularities.
'Peace Train-2026' aims to enhance China-Laos joint rescue
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is looking into a social media allegation that dog meat was being sold illegally in Singapore. The screengrabs shared on the Facebook group Dogs Singapore appeared to show an advertisement in Vietnamese offering various cuts of dog meat. A check on Friday morning found that the post containing the screengrab had been deleted. SFA has not approved any source of dog meat, the agency said early on Friday morning. “All food imports must meet SFA’s requirements....
Vietnam and Canada have elevated ties to Strategic Partnership during a state visit to the North American nation by Party General Secretary and President To Lam.
Chloe San Jose expressed her heartfelt pride and gratitude following Carlos Yulo"s gold medal victory at the Asian Games.
Court finds duo breached ex-parte and ad interim orders issued earlier.
Outside-the-box methods are now required to resolve the impasse, they say.
Chinese researchers have showed a handheld quantum magnetometer built for hunting submarines in a striking real-world test: it tracked a subway train rumbling beneath a city street. The device, developed by Peng Xinhua and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China, is described in a study published on September 14 in Acta Physica Sinica. Though it is scarcely larger than a pencil and draws only 5 watts of power, it can isolate the magnetic disturbance caused by a moving...
Bob Pettit, the first MVP in the 1955-1956 NBA season, was one of the game's biggest stars in an era before the league was regularly on television
Before setting off for Washington on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping had some correspondence to attend to. Dozens of students from 10 US universities, including Harvard, had written to Xi about their experiences on an exchange trip to China this year. According to the State Council, Xi responded with a call to the students to advance cooperation between the two countries. The gesture extended a pattern. For decades, Beijing has often turned to unofficial channels, from prominent...
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