Author: Fernando Santos

FoodTech startup OneThird wants to tackle our globally inefficient and wasteful food supply system. The Dutch team has just secured €2.75 million to scale. One-third of all food produced is lost due to spoilage, and it comes at both a human and economic cost. It’s estimated that this level of food waste comes at a cost of $1 trillion and about 40% of the food wasted is fresh, edible produce. While this wastage is happening, there are millions around the world suffering from a lack of food security, and facing famine. Spurred on by the challenge to tackle this global issue is…

The Horizon programme aims to modernise and upgrade the AFP’s capabilities to respond to emerging security threats and challenges. The Philippines’ Horizon defence modernisation programme is moving to the next developmental phase, where it will focus on acquiring advanced weapon systems such as fighter jets, to improve the country’s maritime and air defence capabilities. The AFP Modernization Program started in 2013, intending to modernise the country’s defence capabilities through a 15-year phased approach. Horizon 1 was completed in 2017, with the Philippines completing Horizon 2 by the end of 2022. Under Horizon 2, the Philippine Air Force received five more S-70i…

A 28-year-old Canadian volunteering as a medic during the Russian invasion of Ukraine has died, according to his father. Grygorii Tsekhmistrenko was from Ukraine, but was a Canadian citizen. He lived in Kinistino, Sask., for years with his parents before moving to Port Alice, B.C., on Vancouver Island, his father, Vitalii Tsekhmistrenko, told CBC News from Kyiv. “He wanted to build a house on the water after the war,” his father said. Tsekhmistrenko, known as Greg to friends, died some time between the night of Jan. 14 and the early hours of Jan. 15 in Bakhmut, according to a volunteer…

TOKYOJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday his government and the central bank must discuss their relationship in guiding economic policy after he names a new Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor in April. The remark heightens the chance the government may revise its a decade-long blueprint with the central bank that focuses on beating deflation, a move that would lay the groundwork for an exit from the BOJ’s ultra-loose monetary policy. Asked what kind of person he would choose as BOJ governor, Kishida said it will be someone “best suited for the job” when Haruhiko Kuroda’s term ends in…

Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s surprise visit to Washington – the Ukrainian president’s first overseas trip since the Russian invasion 300 days ago – started with a secretive train ride to Poland late on Tuesday. The next morning he arrived in the southern Polish city of Przemysl, where he was spotted at the train station, according to footage from private broadcaster TVN, along with the US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, who accompanied him. Zelenskiy’s visit had been planned for days and organised in secret because of concerns about his safety, but details were tweeted on Tuesday by a reporter from US-based newsletter Punchbowl News. In…