The Philippine central bank has approved the PHPC, a stablecoin pegged to the Philippine peso to reduce its volatility. The coins.ph platform aims to reach 20,000 to 30,000 users within a month. About 10 million Filipinos live abroad, eager to cut transaction costs with the new digital currency.
The building is accessible to the public and the faithful after the official inauguration ceremony. The former Christian place of worship was converted by presidential decree in August 2020. President Erdogan extols the thousands of 'ancestral heritage sites' to which he would 'breathe new life', but makes no mention of its origin as a basilica.
These days' announced simulations with tactical atomic weapons leave no room for illusions about a possible more conciliatory course of Russian policy. But for the experts 'it is only a reminder that Russia possesses these types of weapons, not that their use is any closer'.
In the Laotian capital, residents are frustrated after the government issues a notice urging them to stock up on water with containers. The searing temperatures of recent weeks have complicated the situation, but Laos has long had problems ensuring a safe and steady water supply.
At the end of the summit in the Pyrenees, France and China issued a joint statement against any Israeli operation in Rafah, calling for “an immediate and sustainable ceasefire” and a “political settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the two-State solution.” Twenty-five years after NATO bombs hit its embassy in Belgrade, China warned: “we will never allow such tragic history to repeat itself”.
The 38-year-old member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross graduated from college in Mumbai before embracing the religious life. The new priest told AsiaNews: “My vocation and mission as a priest are to provide all the Sacraments in the Indian Sign Language to all deaf Catholics in India” as well as “support God calling” them to the religious life.
