MANILA -- The Philippines government withdrew its diplomats in Canada and will "maintain a diminished diplomatic presence in Canada" until the North American country collects the garbage it shipped to the Philippines six years ago, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin tweeted on Thursday.

Locsin's series of tweets came as Canada missed the deadline to retrieve tons of garbage it dumped to the Philippines back in 2013 and 2014. (Philippines-Canada-Garbage)

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KABUL -- Up to six militants, including a key Taliban commander, have been killed following an anti-terrorism operation in Afghanistan's northern province of Balkh, the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said Thursday.

"Afghan National Defense and Security Forces launched the anti-terrorism raid in surrounding areas of Balkh district, Balkh province. The security forces received hostile fire and returned fire, killing six Taliban terrorists," the ministry said in a statement. (Afghanistan-Militants)

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia and Nepal vowed to work together to boost bilateral cooperation in trade, investment and tourism, said a joint statement released on Wednesday.

The statement was issued at the end of the three-day official visit of Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to Cambodia. (Cambodia-Nepal-Cooperation)

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MACAO -- The preliminary estimate of the foreign exchange reserves in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) reached 164.7 billion patacas (about 20.39 billion U.S. dollars) at the end of April, the SAR's Monetary Authority said on Thursday.

The reserves increased by 0.9 percent from the revised value of 163.3 billion patacas (20.19 billion U.S. dollars) for the previous month. The Macao SAR's foreign exchange reserves at the end of April represented 10 times the currency in circulation, or 80.5 percent of pataca M2 at the end of March. (Macao-Forex reserves) Enditem

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