China has blasted United States National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien for his “unreasonable” remarks on the South China Sea as it accused the US of using electronic codes of civilian aircraft of the Philippines and other regional countries to carry out espionage flights over disputed waters.

Foreign affairs officials on Tuesday reported seven more Filipinos abroad with the coronavirus, as the global count of infections near 60 million. 

Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective according to a second interim analysis of clinical trial data, its developers said on Tuesday.

“History suggests that various episodes of political conflict across Asia have their roots in income imbalances, which have typically converged with class and religion-based divides,” Moody’s said.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said it repatriated another 10,326 Filipinos last week