The SOLbox, a product from Bangladesh's SOLshare, won the first prize in the Empowering People Award 2019 competition organised by Siemens Stiftung to support entrepreneurs around the world.
The Bangladeshi project, which aims to use solar energy to (...)
An earthquake of 5.5 magnitude struck northern Mindanao in the south of the Philippines early on Saturday, injuring 25 people and causing damage to several houses, buildings and infrastructure, Philippine authorities said.
The Philippine Institute (...)
Impunity and unlawful killings are going on unabated in the Philippines, three years into a war on drugs, with a pattern of executions under the guise of police sting operations and a state unwilling to investigate, a rights group said on (...)
Egypt, along with eight countries, are expected to make up more than half of the projected growth of the global population between now and 2050, according to a United Nations (UN) report entitled, The World Population Prospects 2019.
The other eight (...)
Southeast Asian countries will jointly bid to host the World Cup in 2034, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Sunday, after meetings between the region's leaders in Bangkok.
Asia has held the quadrennial showpiece of international soccer (...)
Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera English journalist who was released from jail in Egypt in 2015, has been recently appointed CEO of The Investigative Journal (IJ), a newly launched online investigative news platform.
Since its initial inception in (...)
Mohamed Fahmy, a former AlJazeera English journalist who was released from jail in Egypt in 2015, has been appointed CEO of The Investigative Journal (TIJ), a newly launched online investigative news platform.
Since its inception in February, TIJ (...)
يوم الأحد الماضي انتخبوا ملكة جمال جديدة للفلبين، اسمها Gazini Ganados وعمرها 23 سنة، وهي من مدينة Talisay البعيدة في مقاطعة "سيبو" أكثر من 830 كيلومترا عن العاصمة مانيلا، طبقا لما قرأت "العربية.نت" بسيرتها وما بثت عنها الوكالات، إلا أن صحيفة (...)
The Philippines and Egypt have surfaced as the most resilient among emerging markets amid the trade-war angst, a Bloomberg analysis shows.
Most of the top-ranked countries have robust economic-growth outlooks, according to a Bloomberg scorecard of (...)
Egypt has an insurance gap of $2.8 billion, marking a 1.2 percent of GDP, according to Lloyd's latest underinsurance report.
The British insurance group's A World at Risk: Closing the Gap Report showed there is a global insurance gap of US$162.5 (...)
A Dutch photographer held hostage by Islamic State-linked militants in the Philippines since 2012 was killed on Friday by his captors when he tried to escape during a firefight on a remote southern island, the military said.
Ewold Horn, a wildlife (...)
When the coming of the holy month of Ramadan, the streets of Cairo are filled with "Ma'edat Al Rahman" (tables of mercy) which is a vital ritual in Ramadan illustrating social solidarity – something which characterises the holy month. On these (...)
The Philippines is withdrawing top diplomats from Canada after Ottawa missed a deadline to take back 69 shipping containers full of trash, the latest move in a long-running row stoked by threats from Manila's outspoken president.
Last month, (...)
Egyptian investment bank EFG Hermes said on Wednesday it had concluded UAE-based payments and foreign exchange company Finablr's 337 million pound ($434.4 million) initial public offering in London.
Finablr is a holding company for businesses (...)
In fresh show of naval force in the contested South China Sea, a U.S. guided missile destroyer conducted drills with a Japanese aircraft carrier, two Indian naval ships and a Philippine patrol vessel in the waterway claimed by China, the U.S. Navy (...)
The world breathed a sigh of relief when the last stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) group in Baghouz in eastern Syria fell in March, ending a nightmare that had lasted since June 2014 when it established its foothold in the region and proclaimed (...)
More than 34,000 people across Europe caught measles in the first two months of 2019, with the vast majority of cases in Ukraine, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday as it urged authorities to ensure vulnerable people get vaccinated.
The (...)
The world breathed a sigh of relief when the last stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) group in Baghouz in eastern Syria fell in March, ending a nightmare that had lasted since June 2014 when it established its foothold in the region and proclaimed (...)
كشف Spotify اليوم عن الأغاني الأكثر استماعاً، وأنواع الموسيقى وقوائم الأغاني الأكثر استماعاً في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا لعام 2019 حتى الآن.
وتأتي موسيقى البوب في صدارة أنماط الموسيقى الأكثر شعبية في المنطقة، حيث جاءت Ariana Grande في مقدمة (...)
The Asia-Pacific countries are facing critical times concerning their internal security, something that hit home this week when Sri Lanka was hit by a number of explosions in churches and hotels on Sunday, leading to the deaths of 290 people and (...)
The Asia-Pacific countries are facing critical times concerning their internal security, something that hit home this week when Sri Lanka was hit by a number of explosions in churches and hotels on Sunday, leading to the deaths of 290 people and (...)
A new powerful earthquake hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, a day after 6.1 quake hit the country's north and killed at least 11 people.
The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude of Tuesday's quake at 6.4, while the local seismology agency (...)
لقي 8 أشخاص على الأقل مصرعهم إثر زلزال بقوة 6.1 درجات على مقياس ريختر ضرب، الاثنين، شمالي الفلبين.
وأفادت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية، أن مركز الزلزال يقع في مدينة "غوتاد" شمال العاصمة الفلبينية مانيلا بنحو 100 كيلومتر، وبقوة 6.1 درجات.
وأشارت (...)
A strong earthquake killed three people and trapped at several others Monday in a collapsed building that housed a supermarket in a northern Philippine province, where an international airport terminal was closed due to damage, officials said.
Mayor (...)
After a lengthy debate on Tuesday, Egypt's parliament — the House of Representatives — voted 531 to 22, with one abstention in favour of proposed amendments to Egypt's 2014 constitution.
A public referendum is expected next week. If the amendments (...)
