By Mikhail Flores and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine inflation stayed below the central bank's target for the eighth straight month in October, giving it leeway to lower interest rates again next month to support economic growth.

Southwest Airlines has welcomes Philippine Airlines (PAL) as the newest carrier partnering to connect transoceanic travelers with Southwest- | Southwest Airlines now partners with four overseas air carriers and is actively exploring additional transatlantic partnerships for later this year.

Southwest Airlines has unveiled its latest partnership with an international carrier, Philippine Airlines, which is based in Manila.

Manila stood up its first Army unit dedicated to operating surface-to-surface missiles last week in an effort to strengthen Philippine forces’ long-range precision strike capabilities and contribute to the country’s territorial defense operations.

The interline agreement facilitates connections between the Southwest and Philippine networks via Honolulu, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

At least 66 are dead and 340,000 affected after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit the central Philippines. The Catholic Church and aid groups are providing food, shelter, and rescue in hard-hit areas like Cebu and Southern Leyte.

Philippine officials have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate to safer ground and prohibited fishermen from venturing out to sea in an east-central region as a typhoon approached from the

The partnership will service international travelers through Los Angeles, Seattle/Tacoma, San Francisco, and Hawaii.

SteelAsia Manufacturing Corp. said it was ordered by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute to take custody of 23 cargo containers allegedly containing radioactive zinc dust and rejected by Indonesia,

Chinese coast guard ships have used powerful water cannons and rammed a Philippine government vessel near Thitu Island in the South China Sea.

MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine annual inflation stood at 1.7% in October, unchanged from the previous month, the statistics agency said on Wednesday. Last month's inflation was below the 1.8% median forecast in a Reuters poll,