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2024.10.22

09:28

Philippines seeks cooperation with TSMC, UMC, among others

Asia Tech Wire (Oct 22) -- The Philippines seeks to partner with firms such as TSMC and UMC to expand the country's chip manufacturing business, according to Bloomberg.

2024.10.11

07:27

Philippine Airlines to increase market share of North American flights

Asia Tech Wire (Oct 11) -- Philippine Airlines (PAL), the flagship carrier of the Philippines, plans to increase its market share of North American flights, according to the Philippine Star.

2024.10.10

03:05

Meta AI chatbot coming to Philippines, Brazil, other markets

Asia Tech Wire (Oct 10) -- Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. announced Wednesday it will launch its artificial intelligence chatbot in 21 new markets, competing with OpenAI's ChatGPT.

2024.07.02

07:51

Philippine budget airline Cebu Pacific to buy 152 Airbus planes for $24bn

Asia Tech Wire (July 2) -- Philippine budget airline Cebu Pacific is proposing to spend $24 billion to buy up to 152 Airbus planes.

2022.04.07

10:02

Meta removes over 400 Facebook accounts, pages groups ahead of Philippine elections

Asian Tech Press (Apr. 7) -- Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms announced Wednesday it removed a network of over 400 accounts, Pages, and Groups in the Philippines ahead of the Asian country's 2022 general election.

2021.12.01

07:38

Google to disallow political advertising for 2022 Philippine elections

Asian Tech Press (Dec 1) -- Alphabet Inc's Google announced Wednesday that it will update its political content policy to ban political advertising for 2022 Philippine elections.

2021.07.21

10:52

BSP approves UnionBank's application to establish digital bank

MANILA - UnionBank of the Philippines on Wednesday said the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved its application to establish a digital bank.

2021.06.28

12:30

Philippines's Voyager raises $167 mln from PLDT, KKR, Tencent

Philippine digital and financial services firm Voyager Innovations has raised $167 million for its expansion programme, including a venture into digital banking, its listed and largest shareholder said on Monday.

2021.06.08

15:00

AliCloud adds two new data centers in Indonesia and the Philippines

AliCloud is increasing its presence in overseas markets by adding two new data centers in Indonesia and the Philippines. The company plans to invest more than 6 billion yuan in three years to expand infrastructure and support localized ecological development.

2021.04.28

11:00

Russia delays delivery of 15,000 doses of Sputnik V to the Philippines

According to official Philippine sources, the delivery of 15,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine has been delayed and is expected to May.

2021.04.23

11:00

Philippine Health Secretary vaccinated with China's CoronaVac

On the morning of April 23, Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque got the first dose of CoronaVac, also known as the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, which is developed by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech.

2021.04.10

11:27

126 COVID-19 cases in the Philippine Presidential Security Group, some members had used China's vaccines

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