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The deficit was mainly due to the trade in goods gap, partly offset by remittances, foreign borrowings, investments, and services trade, the BSP added.
China’s Coast Guard fired water cannons after the Philippine ship had “disregarded solemn warnings from the Chinese side and deliberately rammed a Chinese coast guard vessel,” Chinese coast guard spokesperson Gan Yu said.
Asia Pacific tops list:- Climate change will be the main driver of future economic risks, with countries in the Asia Pacific region among the most vulnerable to extreme weather events, according to new analysis.[AlphaGalileo]
"Christie's Hong Kong is capitalizing on the market vibrancy in Asia. (IANS)
Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa (right) answers a question from the audience during a Lowy Institute event in Canberra, Australia, as Michael Fullilove, the institute’s executive director, looks on, March 20, 2023. (Petri Kurkaa for the Lowy Institute)
Feb. 23, 2023, photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Feb. 24 shows strategic cruise missile Hwasal-2 launching in North Hamgyong Province. (AFP/KCNA via KNS) 
The cracked bed of the Poyang Lake is exposed during drought season in north-central China’s Jiangxi province, Nov. 1, 2022. (AP)
In this photo provided by South Korean Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, center, F-22 fighter jets, and South Korean Air Force F-35 fighter jets, bottom, fly during a joint air drill in South Korea, Jan. 1, 2023. (File Photo/AP)
U.S. President Joe Biden (center), Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left), and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak deliver remarks on the Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) partnership, after a trilateral meeting at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California, March 13, 2023. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
North Korean soldiers help farmers plant rice at a cooperative farm in South Pyongan province. (Yonhap News)
Caption: Shooting training at Gaoshanding Camp, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Feb. 21, 2023. (Taiwan Ministry of Defense)
This Feb. 23, 2023, photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Feb. 24 shows strategic cruise missile Hwasal-2 launching in North Hamgyong Province. (AFP/KCNA via KNS) 
This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT shows what it says is a ballistic missile being launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea, Feb. 20, 2023. (AP)
North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the East Sea on Saturday, according to South Korea's military. (IANS)
A high altitude balloon floats over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)
A green light appears from the direction of a Chinese coast guard ship at the Second Thomas Shoal, 105 nautical miles off the Palawan Province, Philippines, February 6, 2023 in this handout image. Philippine Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS
Public Security Forces soldiers salute to the statues of their late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 75th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang, North Korea Feb. 8, 2023. (AP)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presides over a military meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea Feb. 6, 2023 in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). (Reuters)
Kim Gunn, South Korea’s Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs (far left), and Sung Kim, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea (middle) appear on a VOA show hosted by Eunjung Cho of VOA Korean Service. (VOA)
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III arrives at the Philippines' defense department inside Camp Aguinaldo, Manila on Feb. 2, 2023.(BenarNews/Jason Gutierrez)
Two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers [top left], South Korean Air Force F-35 fighter jets [right], and U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets [bottom left] fly over the South Korean Peninsula during a joint air drill, Nov. 19, 2022 (AFP/South Korean Defense Ministry)
Theresa Lazaro, the Philippine Foreign Affairs acting undersecretary (left), greets U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink after speaking to reporters following the 10th U.S.-Philippines Bilateral Strategic Dialogue in Manila, Jan. 20, 2023. (Jam Sta Rosa/AFP)
The Shandong aircraft carrier, seen docked at a naval port in Sanya in southern China's Hainan Province on Dec. 17, 2019. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP)
Members of the Indian Air Force and Japanese Air Self Defense Force at Hyakuri Air Base in Japan during the Veer Guardian 2023 exercise in Japan, Jan. 2023. (Indian Air Force)
Officers and members of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (right) and their counterparts from the Japan Coast Guard display their countries’ flags at the end of a drill in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Jan.13, 2022. [Photo courtesy Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency]
Japanese troops conduct a military drill next to an anti-ship missile unit, at Miyako camp on Miyako Island, Okinawa prefecture, on April 21, 2022. (Reuters/Issei Kato)
From left: Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada, Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speak at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP)
Last week, Japan approved a new national security strategy, one of the country's largest defence shake-ups since World War II. This is a marked shift from the country's pacifist approach, which has dominated its political discourse for decades. (File Photo- IANS)
The latest saber-rattling came a month after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) thought to be capable of reaching the whole of the continental US. (File Photo- IANS)
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