A breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can help in the early detection of lung cancer is now available in the Philippines, where 23,728 new cases of the second most common form of cancer among Filipinos were recorded by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022 alone. Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and private healthcare provider Ayala Healthcare Holdings Inc. (AC Health) teamed up last month with healthcare startup Qure. AI to bring qXR, the AI-assisted X-ray technology, to Healthway Cancer Care Hospital in Taguig City and Healthway Qualimed Hospital in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. READ: Redefining lung cancer care with early intervention…
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Thailand’s Constitutional Court will rule Wednesday on whether the Move Forward Party violated the constitution by proposing to amend a law that forbids defaming the country’s royal family. A petition to the court requested the party’s dissolution and a 10-year ban on political activity by its executives, including former chief Pita Limjaroenrat. Move Forward won the most seats in the 2023 election, but was blocked from taking power and now heads the opposition. Pita was denied the prime minister’s job by the military-installed Senate, a power it was given in the constitution adopted in 2017 under a military government. Pita,…
Amid continuing efforts to find those missing in the devastating landslides in Wayanad, bodies of 16 unidentified victims were laid to rest at a mass burial site at Puthumala near Meppadi, on Monday, the seventh day following the calamity. The funeral services were held after interfaith prayers. Each victim is buried first according to the Christian ritual, then according to the Hindu ritual, then according to the Islamic ritual, with prayers and last rites. The funeral rites of the remaining 11 bodies and 154 body parts of unidentified victims are progressing in Puthumala on Monday evening. 200 graves have been…
Vietnamese coast guard assets arrived in Manila on Monday to conduct maritime security drills for the first time in what analysts deem as a “revolutionary” and “very significant” move of both countries facing common threats in the South China Sea. Vietnam Coast Guard’s (VCG) CSB 8002, along with some 80 personnel, arrived at the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) port on Monday and will remain in the country until Friday. Col. Hoang Quoc Dat, vice commander of VCG Region 2, said several maritime security drills will be held during their stay in the country. Hoang noted that VCG’s unprecedented deployment of…
Bangladesh’s iron lady of 15 years bowed out to a people’s uprising yesterday. Serving as the prime minister since 2009, Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and flee the country as hundreds of thousands marched towards Dhaka defying a curfew amid a continual morning drizzle. The streets of the capital that had convulsed with violence and death over the last three weeks, reverberated with wild celebrations as soon as the Bangladesh army chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, confirmed the rumours of Hasina’s resignation. He went on to say that a new interim government will be formed soon. Millions took to the streets…
Eight people were confirmed dead and 19 others remained missing as of 2:30 pm on Sunday after a flash flood and mudslide hit a village in Kangding, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, local officials said on Sunday. The disaster occurred at about 3:30 am on Saturday in Ridi village, damaging houses and causing a tunnel bridge of the Yakang Expressway to collapse. Four vehicles carrying 11 people fell off the bridge between two tunnels along the expressway from Kangding to Luding county when it collapsed, with two people killed, one person rescued and sent to hospital and eight others missing. Six…
The International Monetary Fund welcomes China’s “resilient economic growth and the post-pandemic recovery in private consumption”, according to a new report. Each year, an IMF team visits China and other countries to collect economic and financial data and discuss with officials of each country their economic developments and policies. On Friday, the IMF released the final report for China’s 2024 Article IV Consultation. China’s economy has remained resilient, even though the property sector is experiencing ongoing difficulties, the report said. It noted that the nation’s GDP grew 5.2 percent in 2023 and, during the first half of 2024, grew 5…
Meta Platforms Inc (Meta), which owns and runs Facebook and Instagram, has come under fire from the Cabinet for removing official social media posts by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination.In his latest post on Facebook, the Prime Minister urged Meta to stop acting as instruments of the oppressive Zionist Israeli regime. Meanwhile, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has been tasked with seeking a full explanation from Meta about the deleted postings which included pictures of Anwar meeting Haniyeh, Hamas’ political bureau chief, in May. In Anwar’s latest Facebook post, he slammed Meta for being rude and insulting to…
Buddhism is doing all it can to make itself more relatable and relevant. An AI chatbot that reads Buddhist scriptures and gives answers to whatever questions users enter is the latest effort by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism to reach the nonreligious. The man behind this artificial technology creation is Kim Young-chan, a 26-year-old Buddhist, who landed a job as a public relations counselor for Korea’s largest Buddhist sect in June, four months after graduating from college. “I’m working on making upgrades to the chatbot. People ask so many questions and answers have to be sharper,” Kim said. A…
Typhoon Gaemi, which lashed the Philippines, Taiwan and southern China in late July, signalled what is to come as a warming climate speeds up the formation of catastrophic storms and shifts their pathways towards the north. The third named storm and second typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Gaemi killed dozens as it wreaked untold damage in its path. As the world warms, typhoons in South-east Asia are expected to intensify more quickly, move northwards towards places such as China and the Korean peninsula, and slow down on land – causing more damage in highly populated coastal areas and beyond.…