Manila (AFP) Sept 7, 2011 - The Philippines on Wednesday announced another military spending spree to defend its South China Sea territories, with a key goal of protecting its largest natural gas project against Chinese claims.
Manila (AFP) Sept 3, 2011 - The Philippines hopes a territorial dispute over the South China Sea will ease after President Benigno Aquino's trip to China, the nation's military chief said Saturday.
Manila (AFP) Sept 30, 2024 - President Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated on Monday the first factory for electric vehicle batteries in the Philippines, calling it the future of clean energy.
New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2011 - Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday that he expected China to be reasonable over tense territorial disputes so long as Beijing is given a way to save face.
Manila (AFP) Sept 10, 2011 - More than three-quarters of Philippine military aircraft are not fit to fly - hampering the country's ability to protect its airspace and territorial waters, the air force said on Saturday.
Paris (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 - A vintage pump in the Vietnamese hills; a Madrid petrol station topped with a giant sombrero; a multi-coloured futuristic fuel outlet in Dubai - whatever its form the humble filling stop, emblem of our modern societies, would appear to be running out of road.
Pyongyang (AFP) Sept 23, 2017 - Petrol prices are being pumped higher in Pyongyang in the wake of United Nations sanctions restricting exports of oil products to nuclear-armed North Korea.
Shanghai, China (AFP) Sept 09, 2013 - PetroChina, the listed arm of China's largest oil producer China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), rejected a media report Monday that said two of its executives were under investigation for graft.
Lima (AFP) Sept 25, 2016 - Peruvian officials reported two new oil spills in the country's Amazon on Sunday, bringing this year's total to seven.
Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2022 - Iran's recent seizure of unmanned US Navy boats shined a light on a pioneering Pentagon program to develop networks of air, surface and underwater drones for patrolling large regions, meshing their surveillance with artificial intelligence.
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2021 - US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who traveled to the Gulf last week but did not visit Saudi Arabia, still hopes to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Pentagon said Monday.
Canonsburg, United States (AFP) Sept 15, 2024 - Pennsylvanians working in the controversial fracking industry are confident that the sector will endure, whoever wins the White House in November's presidential election.
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 19, 2011 - The owners and operators of a cargo ship that struck San Francisco's Bay Bridge four years ago causing a huge oil spill are to pay $44.4 million in compensation, under a deal announced Monday.
Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 - Paris will start switching off the ornamental lights that grace city monuments hours earlier than usual, plunging the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks in the dark to cope with surging electricity costs, officials said Tuesday.
Andrezel, France (AFP) Sept 3, 2017 - Standing alongside a field of beets in the Brie region outside Paris, the horse head of the oil derrick bobs day and night, drawing crude that helps satisfy the French capital's thirst for petrol.
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 4, 2008 - A decision by Indonesian palm oil companies to reject a moratorium on land clearing is threatening to wipe out more than 8,000 orangutans in the next three years, activists said Thursday.
