This year's Nobel prizes will be announced starting from October 2, with the ceremony lasting one or two weeks, said the Swedish Academy on its official website

Pakistani Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani expressed gratitude for China's donation at the ceremony attended also by senators, parliamentarians and other high officials

By comparing these figures, Pew seems to suggest that China and the US are engaging in a popularity contest in the Philippines

And on global economic status, about half of Filipinos (49 percent) say that the US is still the leading economic power, but that is down from 66 percent who said so in 2015

A lower house election must be held by December 2018 as this is when the four-year terms of current lower house lawmakers expire