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According to an industry forecast released, inflation, supply chain problems and ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns in China are among the factors conspiring to delay a full recovery in business travel to its pre-pandemic level. The Global Business Travel Association now projects business travel will regain its 2019 level of $1.43 trillion in mid-2026, 18 months later than predicted in the group's last forecast in November. "Recovery has hit some headwinds," GBTA says in a statement that outlined a gradual improvement from a 2020 low of $661 billion until reaching $1.47 trillion in 2026. — AFP

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The Department of Budgment and Management releases P1.4B funding for the extended DOTr-LTFRB Libreng Sakay at the EDSA Busway, following the directive of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. to extend “Libreng Sakay” along the EDSA Busway until December 31, 2022.  

3 hours ago

Commission on Higher Education chairperson J. Prospero de Vera says Colegio de San Lorenzo is in discussion with officials of the CHED regional office in the National Capital Region. — The STAR/Janvic Mateo

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Moscow says Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and UN chief Antonio Guterres discussed the security situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, which is currently under Moscow's control and has been the target of fighting. "Sergei Shoigu conducted telephone negotiations with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regarding the conditions for safe operation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant," the Russian defense ministry says in a statement.  The plant, Europe's biggest nuclear facility, was captured by Russian troops at the beginning of March, not long after Moscow launched its military offensive in Ukraine. — AFP

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UN member states resume talks aimed at finally completing a treaty to protect the world's high seas, a vital yet fragile resource that covers nearly half the planet. A host of NGOs and affected countries say the pact is urgently needed to improve environmental stewardship over the vast, yet largely unregulated area as it faces growing challenges. But the COVID-19 pandemic slowed negotiations for two years, and a session in March that was supposed to have been conclusive made progress but ran out of time. — AFP

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China staged fresh military drills around Taiwan on Monday, slamming a new visit by United States lawmakers to the island days after a similar trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi triggered a furious response from Beijing. The unannounced two-day trip by senior members of Congress prompted China to renew its rhetoric that it would "prepare for war" over Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that Beijing's leaders claim and have vowed to one day seize.  The five-member congressional delegation -- led by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts -- met with President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday, according to Washington's de facto embassy in Taipei. "The delegation had an opportunity to exchange views with Taiwan counterparts on a wide range of issues of importance to both the United States and Taiwan," it said.  The bipartisan trip sparked another bellicose response from Beijing, which said it had carried out a fresh round of "combat readiness patrol and combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan island" on Monday. "The Chinese People's Liberation Army continues to train and prepare for war, resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely crush any form of 'Taiwan independence' separatism and foreign interference attempts," Wu Qian, a spokesman for China's Defense Ministry, said. -- AFP

20 hours ago

Israeli security forces said they had killed a Palestinian man who had tried to stab their officers during a home raid in east Jerusalem early Monday. "A suspect who tried to stab our fighters was neutralised," police said, adding that the man, identified by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA as Mohammed al-Shaham, 21, had died in an Israeli military hospital. Jerusalem Border Police had launched the raid to locate weapons in Kafr Aqab village, which is part of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem but located on the West Bank side of the security barrier. The man's father, Ibrahim al-Shaham, said border police had "shot his son in the head at point-blank range," according to WAFA. The father claimed the officers had "then left him bleeding on the ground for 40 minutes before arresting him and later announcing his death," WAFA reported. Police did not say whether they found any weapons in the house. -- AFP

23 hours ago

The Supreme Court’s Office of the Bar Confidant announces that the deadline for applications to take the 2022 Bar exams is today, August 15. Officer-in-Charge Amor Entilla says “[a]ll applicants who intend to take this year’s Bar Examinations should register and upload the required documents, and pay the required bar fees through the Bar PLUS by today.” Today, August 15, 2022, is the deadline for the applications to take the 2022 Bar Examinations.READ the OBC’s Announcement dated August 15, 2022, re: Notice to the 2022 Bar Applicants #Bar2022 #GetThatBar2022 pic.twitter.com/yt1nEnQB3u— Philippine Supreme Court Public Information Office (@SCPh_PIO) August 15, 2022

24 hours ago

A health disaster has been declared on the Marshall Islands after the fast-spreading Covid variant Omicron infected more than a tenth of residents in the capital Majuro in one week. Since a handful of positive community cases were confirmed on August 8, the numbers have skyrocketed to 2,800 in a city of 22,500. "We're gearing up for the hardest part of the outbreak right now in Majuro," Health Secretary Jack Niedenthal said Monday. Thanks to strict quarantine rules, the Marshalls Islands was one of the last countries to stay Covid-free. "The good thing about having all these other countries go before us is we really understand epidemiologically how this variant of the virus spreads: like wildfire," Niedenthal added. On Friday, the Marshalls' President David Kabua signed a "State of Health Disaster" to give the government access to emergency funding. So far, there have been 3,000 positive cases in a population of around 42,000 across the islands and atolls that comprise the Marshalls. -- AFP

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