US drops the gauntlet on the South China Sea
When US Vice President Mike Pence flew on Tuesday over the South China Sea in transit to the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) summit in Singapore, his air force plane passed within 50 miles of Chinese outposts in the contested Spratly Islands. Upon landing at the summit, attended by regional leaders, Pence said his overflight was a type of “freedom of navigation” ...
AFP-PNP ‘joint assessment’ on martial law extension out soon
MANILA -- The final decision to extend martial law in Mindanao may be out by next week as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) are to come up with a “joint assessment” for a “more validated conclusive reports”. As of now, the AFP (stand) is still to recommend an extension of martial law, chief-of-staff General Carlito Galvez ...
China ‘already in possession’ of South China Sea, says Duterte
As the US continues to ramp up its criticisms of China’s activity in the South China Sea, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is cozying up ever closer to Beijing. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Singapore, Duterte criticized the US for provoking China, while shrugging his shoulders at China’s expanding presence on islands also claimed by the Philippines.
Ladlad, 2 others ordered detained at Camp Bagong Diwa jail
MANILA -- The Quezon City Regional Trial Court ordered the transfer of ranking Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leader Vicente Ladlad and his two companions from the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) to the Metro Manila District Jail (MMDJ) in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City. In a statement on Friday, QCPD Director, Chief Supt. Joselito T. Esquivel said ...
With new declaration, questionable hero Emilio Aguinaldo now has a day
President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of Emilio Aguinaldo Day on March 22 was criticized due to the many controversies linked to the country’s first president. Duterte signed Proclamation 621 last week that declared March 22, 2019 as the commemoration of Aguinaldo’s 150th birth anniversary. He designated the National Historical Commission of the Philippines as the lead agency “to plan ...
Duterte on skipping Asean-Australia breakfast meet: ‘Anong ipapakain nila, kangaroo?
President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at his critics who criticized him for skipping a breakfast meeting with his counterparts from Southeast Asian countries and Australia, saying that the gathering was an “informal” event. Duterte was referring to the Asean-Australia Informal Breakfast Summit, the first event for the Southeast Asian leaders ...
Cambodia at the center of a new Cold War
Since 2017, China has lobbied Cambodia for a port in Koh Kong on the Gulf of Thailand that could also be used as a naval base, though it remains unclear how far construction has progressed on the deep-water port. Diplomatic sources have told Asia Times that an emerging Chinese naval base in Cambodia could soon be critically raised by US Vice President Mike Pence ...
11/15/2018
Duterte calls on China for telecom competition
In a move that promises to provoke legal and political backlashes, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration provisionally awarded a consortium led by China Telecom Corp a license to become the third major telecoms player in the local market. China Telecom’s entry will be facilitated by local partners Udenna Group and its unit Chelsea Logistics ...
Palace explains PRRD’s absence in few ASEAN Related Summits
MANILA -- Malacañang on Wednesday clarified that President Rodrigo Duterte’s absence in few meetings of 33rd ASEAN Related Summits has nothing to do with his physical health. “We assure the nation that his aforementioned absence has nothing to do with his physical health and well-being which have been the subject of speculation,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement.
Duterte skips 3 ASEAN events in Singapore
MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was a no-show at 3 major events at the 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Related Summits in Singapore on Wednesday, November 14. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr showed up in place of Duterte at the ASEAN-Australia Informal Breakfast Summit ...
AFP yet to receive any martial law-related complaints
MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said it has yet to receive any documented human rights violations or complaints amid the implementation of martial law in Mindanao. AFP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo made this remark in an interview with reporters Wednesday, noting that martial law in Mindanao is being implemented with respect for human rights.
La Union vice mayor, aide slain in ambush; mayor survives
Gunmen firing from both sides of a road in Balaoan town, La Union province, killed Vice Mayor Al-Fred Concepcion and one of his aides, and wounded his daughter, Mayor Aleli Concepcion, on Wednesday morning. It was the third fatal attack on La Union politicians this year, according to the police. Chief Insp. Silverio Ordinado, La Union police spokesperson, said the Concepcions were traveling ...
Balangiga bells' journey back to the Philippines
Today the US government formally begins the repatriation of the Balangiga bells to the Philippines. "After 117 years, the bells of Balangiga will be coming home. This morning the Government of the United States announced it would be returning the historic bells to the Philippines," the Department of Foreign Affairs says.
Bicam approves bill on lifetime cellphone number
The joint panel of the Senate and House of Representatives approved Tuesday the bill seeking to allow consumers to keep their cellphone numbers for life, even if they changed service providers or subscription plans. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs and author of the bill, said the approval of the measure would be timely ...
11/13/2018
Malacañang welcomes ‘movement’ of Balangiga Bells back to the Philippines
Malacañang on Tuesday welcomed the latest development on the imminent return of the historic Balangiga Bells to the Philippines. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after the bells were reportedly set to sail back home in the country after a military ceremony this week in Wyoming, United States.
Philippines’ August net FDI hits lowest in 5 months
MANILA — Net foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Philippines fell to their lowest in five months in August, but inflows in the first eight months of the year rose 31 percent, the central bank said on Monday. In August alone, net FDI totaled $752 million, down 41 percent compared with the $1.28 billion inflows in the same month last year.
Diokno: Imelda Marcos should serve jail time despite old age
Former first lady and Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos should serve jail time for her crimes despite her old age, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno said Monday. Diokno said Marcos’s age “should not be an obstacle to accountability,” adding that the 89-year-old should serve jail time because she did not commit the crime when she was 89 years old but during her 50’s.
Saudi-Indonesia ties boil over migrant’s execution
Only weeks after the officially sanctioned murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia has ignored the entreaties of the world’s largest Muslim country and executed an Indonesian maid for killing the employer she always claimed was trying to rape her. President Joko Widodo was reportedly furious that the Saudi Arabian government had again given no prior notice ...
Escudero backs release of names of officials linked to drugs
Sen. Francis Escudero on Monday said that he saw no need to keep the list of public officials with alleged drug links under wraps if there was evidence to back it, and that releasing the names would lift the shadow of suspicion from other officials. Escudero supported the recommendation of Interior Secretary Eduardo Año that the so-called narcolist be made public ...
P200 billion forfeiture cases vs Marcoses up for decision
MANILA, Philippines — A civil case seeking to recover P200 billion in government funds allegedly plundered by the Marcos family during their two-decade reign is nearing resolution at the Sandiganbayan. The anti-graft court’s Fourth Division’s records show that Civil Case No. 0002 filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Goverment (PCGG) against former first lady Imelda Marcos ...
Isidro Lapeña charged with graft over 105 missing containers
MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) yesterday filed graft charges against former Customs commissioner and now Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) chief Isidro Lapeña over 105 shipping containers that are missing and believed to contain undervalued goods.
11/8/2018
New leaks sprout in Duterte’s drug war
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent order to militarize the notoriously corruption-ridden Bureau of Customs (BoC) came in response to the latest controversy of an illegal drug shipment being moved unimpeded through a state-run port. The controversial order came shortly after Duterte replaced former BoC chief Isidro Lapeña ...
Random mandatory drug test for college students starting 2019
MANILA -- Students in universities, colleges and higher education institutions (HEIs) will be required to undergo mandatory random drug testing come academic year 2019-2020. Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman J. Prospero de Vera III said in a television interview Tuesday night that this action is based on the commissions' memorandum 18 ...
Lawyer for 9 slain farmers shot dead
Lawyers and human rights groups are crying out for justice over the killing of activist-lawyer Benjamin Ramos less than a month after helping families of nine farmers who were shot dead by unknown attackers in Negros Occidental province. Ramos, 56, a founding member of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), had just bought cigarettes and was standing in front a store ...
AFP chief vows more support for elite naval group
MANILA -- Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Carlito Galvez. Jr. vowed to extend all possible support to the Naval Special Operation Group (NAVSOG) as parts of efforts to achieve peace. “Rest assured that the AFP leadership will continue to support the NAVSOG and all units of the AFP as we work together to win the peace, preserve our way of life ...
Three beauty queens were allegedly harassed during Miss Earth International
First off, let me just say that no woman asks to be sexually harassed. It doesn’t matter if you’re wearing normal clothes or a gown, this act is not the fault of the victim/s. That said, three beauty queens who were competing in the Miss Earth International 2018 in the Philippines last August have come forward with stories that they were allegedly harassed by a sponsor.
Old photo shows Bonifacio Global City as Fort William McKinley
An aerial photograph of Fort William Mckinley, most of which is now known as Bonifacio Global City, dating all the way back from 1923 has surfaced online. The photograph dated January 26, 1923, showing the U.S military base where the crowded commercial and business district now stands is the subject of a Reddit thread.
At Oxford, Pacquiao denies EJKs months after Duterte declared his ‘sin’
Sen. Manny Pacquiao recently claimed at an open forum following his speech at Oxford University that there are no extrajudicial killings in the country. The boxer-politician was invited by Oxford Union president Stephen Horvath and society secretary Tom Brown to speak in front of the university’s prestigious debating society on November 5.
11/6/2018
P25 basic pay hike in Metro Manila: Labor, business unhappy
The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) announced on Monday a P25 increase in the minimum daily wage of workers in Metro Manila, an amount that labor groups called mere “crumbs.” Employers also grumbled, saying the amount would increase the cost of doing business in the Philippines and harm the country’s competitiveness.
PNP reiterates serious drive vs. rogue cops
MANILA -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) is serious in its internal cleansing program with the continuous conduct of intelligence operations to remove rogue police personnel from the force, PNP Chief, Director General Oscar Albayalde reiterated on Tuesday. Albayalde made the reiteration after Supt. Santiago Ylanan Rapiz was killed Monday night when he allegedly shot it out ...
US Navy stresses Asia commitment with drills under China's nose
ABOARD THE USS RONALD REAGAN -- The U.S. Navy this week signaled its resolve to maintain a strong presence in the Indo-Pacific region, holding its largest joint exercise with Japan of the year. The exercise, called Keen Sword, "demonstrates the United States' and Japan's strong commitments to a free and open Indo-Pacific region," Rear Adm. Karl Thomas told reporters ...
Globe launches eSIM in the Philippines
MANILA -- Globe Telecom launched the embedded Subscriber Identification Module (eSIM) in the Philippine market to enhance the mobile experience of its subscribers. The eSIM is a virtual SIM that can be an alternative to the physical, plastic SIM cards that are currently being used by smartphone users.
De Lima sues Guevarra, Aguirre over 'illegal' admission of inmates to WPP
MANILA, Philippines (Updated 6:15 p.m.) — Sen. Leila De Lima has filed a case against Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra for allegedly violating the law when the government presented inmates convicted of crimes of “moral turpitude” as witnesses against her. De Lima filed a 22-page complaint against Guevarra and his predecessor, former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II ...
Why complaints against unruly ‘Chinese’ nationals are going viral
Complaints about supposed Chinese nationals causing inconvenience through acts such as taking off their shirts and defecating in public have been raised on social media by Filipinos. One Twitter user posted a photograph of a man without a shirt at a popular clothing store. According to the user, the man photographed shirtless cut in line in order to pay for the shirt, which he had just taken off.
Hugpong, Tingog party list join forces
Tacloban City—The regional party of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, the Hugpong ng Pagbabago, has endorsed the Tingog Sinirangan party-list group, which seeks to bring change, hope, and progress to Eastern Visayas. The two groups are scheduled to formalize their alliance at a ceremony at the Tacloban City Convention Center ...
11/4/2018
Goodbye: Sister Fox urges unity for reforms
MANILA, Philippines — On her last day in the Philippines, Australian missionary Sister Patricia Anne Fox urged Filipinos not to lose hope and instead unite to attain genuine reforms in the country. “The big challenge is not to lose hope, to know that if we all move together, we can bring about change,” she said at a press conference at the St. Joseph College in Quezon City ...
EDITORIAL - Unsustainable
Despite appeals from environment groups, truckloads of trash were collected from the different cemeteries in Metro Manila as the holidays for remembering the dead ended on Friday. Garbage, however, litters the National Capital Region even on ordinary days, clogging drainage, aggravating flooding, and providing breeding grounds for disease-causing mosquitoes and vermin.
UP IESM professor wins ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women
Professor Gay Jane P. Perez, PhD wins the top award of the 2018 ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women. She is the first Filipino to receive the prestigious award, besting 45 other scientists in the region. An associate professor at the UP Institute of Environmental Sciences and Meteorology (IESM), Perez won for her research on improving yield using satellite observations ...
OFW Jennifer Dalquez home after release from UAE death row
Overseas Filipino worker Jennifer Dalquez, who was acquitted of the murder of her employer in the United Arab Emirates, has finally come home to the Philippines after four years in prison. Dalquez arrived in Manila on Friday morning along with undocumented Filipinos who availed themselves of the UAE’s three-month amnesty program.
China faces grilling over internment camps at UN review
BEIJING, China — China will be grilled over its mass detainment of Uighur minorities during a UN human rights review on Tuesday, with Washington leading demands for Beijing to come clean on how many people are held in a sprawling network of camps. As many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being kept in extra-judicial detention ...
De Lima seeks probe into 2 Build, Build, Build projects displacing thousands
Detained Senator Leila De Lima has filed a resolution seeking an investigation into two multi-billion projects under the government's "Build, Build, Build" program which would displace almost 200,000 families in Metro Manila. In Senate Resolution No. 927, De Lima called the appropriate Senate committee to investigate the construction of the P23-billion North Luzon Expressway ...
Filipinos rank second worldwide in commemorating the departed
The Philippines ranked second in the world when it comes to cultural practices for remembering departed loved ones, according to an international index. Skymorials, an online memorials and tributes provider, announced that the country ranked second only to Mexico with a 59.9 percent score in its global index report for 2018.
11/2/2018
Martial law in Mindanao tackled by security council: Palace MANILA
-- The possibility of further extending martial law in Mindanao has been
discussed when President Rodrigo Duterte recently convened the Executive
Committee of the National Security Council (EC-NSC), Malacañang
announced on Thursday. “Taking into account the lingering terrorist and
communist threats, the EC-NSC committed to put into study the possible
lifting ...
Duterte urges Filipinos to emulate saints MANILA
-- President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday urged Filipinos to honor their
departed loved ones as he wished the Christian faithful a "solemn and
meaningful" celebration of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. “I call
on the entire nation to honor those who have gone before us in the grace
of God. Their legacy remains an important part of who we are today ...
MANILA,
Philippines — Following United States Vice President Mike Pence's
warning against China's offer of loans to poorer countries, Budget
Secretary ...
MANILA -- Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Sunday debunked the claims of the National Democratic Front (NDF) ...
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is rolling out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping during his state visit from November ...
MANILA
-- Amid misguided assertions and the timing of reports about the
offering of elective Korean language class in ...
In anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s
arrival in the Philippines on Tuesday for a state visit ...
The Sandiganbayan has ordered one of the lawyers of Ilocos
Norte Representative Imelda Marcos to explain why he did
...
When US Vice President Mike Pence flew on Tuesday over the South China Sea in transit to the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) summit in Singapore, his air force plane passed within 50 miles of Chinese outposts in the contested Spratly Islands. Upon landing at the summit, attended by regional leaders, Pence said his overflight was a type of “freedom of navigation” ...
MANILA -- The final decision to extend martial law in Mindanao may be out by next week as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) are to come up with a “joint assessment” for a “more validated conclusive reports”. As of now, the AFP (stand) is still to recommend an extension of martial law, chief-of-staff General Carlito Galvez ...
As the US continues to ramp up its criticisms of China’s activity in the South China Sea, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is cozying up ever closer to Beijing. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Singapore, Duterte criticized the US for provoking China, while shrugging his shoulders at China’s expanding presence on islands also claimed by the Philippines.
MANILA -- The Quezon City Regional Trial Court ordered the transfer of ranking Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leader Vicente Ladlad and his two companions from the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) to the Metro Manila District Jail (MMDJ) in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City. In a statement on Friday, QCPD Director, Chief Supt. Joselito T. Esquivel said ...
President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of Emilio Aguinaldo Day on March 22 was criticized due to the many controversies linked to the country’s first president. Duterte signed Proclamation 621 last week that declared March 22, 2019 as the commemoration of Aguinaldo’s 150th birth anniversary. He designated the National Historical Commission of the Philippines as the lead agency “to plan ...
President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at his critics who criticized him for skipping a breakfast meeting with his counterparts from Southeast Asian countries and Australia, saying that the gathering was an “informal” event. Duterte was referring to the Asean-Australia Informal Breakfast Summit, the first event for the Southeast Asian leaders ...
Since 2017, China has lobbied Cambodia for a port in Koh Kong on the Gulf of Thailand that could also be used as a naval base, though it remains unclear how far construction has progressed on the deep-water port. Diplomatic sources have told Asia Times that an emerging Chinese naval base in Cambodia could soon be critically raised by US Vice President Mike Pence ...
In a move that promises to provoke legal and political backlashes, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration provisionally awarded a consortium led by China Telecom Corp a license to become the third major telecoms player in the local market. China Telecom’s entry will be facilitated by local partners Udenna Group and its unit Chelsea Logistics ...
MANILA -- Malacañang on Wednesday clarified that President Rodrigo Duterte’s absence in few meetings of 33rd ASEAN Related Summits has nothing to do with his physical health. “We assure the nation that his aforementioned absence has nothing to do with his physical health and well-being which have been the subject of speculation,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement.
MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was a no-show at 3 major events at the 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Related Summits in Singapore on Wednesday, November 14. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr showed up in place of Duterte at the ASEAN-Australia Informal Breakfast Summit ...
MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said it has yet to receive any documented human rights violations or complaints amid the implementation of martial law in Mindanao. AFP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo made this remark in an interview with reporters Wednesday, noting that martial law in Mindanao is being implemented with respect for human rights.
Gunmen firing from both sides of a road in Balaoan town, La Union province, killed Vice Mayor Al-Fred Concepcion and one of his aides, and wounded his daughter, Mayor Aleli Concepcion, on Wednesday morning. It was the third fatal attack on La Union politicians this year, according to the police. Chief Insp. Silverio Ordinado, La Union police spokesperson, said the Concepcions were traveling ...
Today the US government formally begins the repatriation of the Balangiga bells to the Philippines. "After 117 years, the bells of Balangiga will be coming home. This morning the Government of the United States announced it would be returning the historic bells to the Philippines," the Department of Foreign Affairs says.
The joint panel of the Senate and House of Representatives approved Tuesday the bill seeking to allow consumers to keep their cellphone numbers for life, even if they changed service providers or subscription plans. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs and author of the bill, said the approval of the measure would be timely ...
Malacañang on Tuesday welcomed the latest development on the imminent return of the historic Balangiga Bells to the Philippines. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after the bells were reportedly set to sail back home in the country after a military ceremony this week in Wyoming, United States.
MANILA — Net foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Philippines fell to their lowest in five months in August, but inflows in the first eight months of the year rose 31 percent, the central bank said on Monday. In August alone, net FDI totaled $752 million, down 41 percent compared with the $1.28 billion inflows in the same month last year.
Former first lady and Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos should serve jail time for her crimes despite her old age, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno said Monday. Diokno said Marcos’s age “should not be an obstacle to accountability,” adding that the 89-year-old should serve jail time because she did not commit the crime when she was 89 years old but during her 50’s.
Only weeks after the officially sanctioned murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia has ignored the entreaties of the world’s largest Muslim country and executed an Indonesian maid for killing the employer she always claimed was trying to rape her. President Joko Widodo was reportedly furious that the Saudi Arabian government had again given no prior notice ...
MANILA, Philippines — A civil case seeking to recover P200 billion in government funds allegedly plundered by the Marcos family during their two-decade reign is nearing resolution at the Sandiganbayan. The anti-graft court’s Fourth Division’s records show that Civil Case No. 0002 filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Goverment (PCGG) against former first lady Imelda Marcos ...
MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) yesterday filed graft charges against former Customs commissioner and now Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) chief Isidro Lapeña over 105 shipping containers that are missing and believed to contain undervalued goods.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent order to militarize the notoriously corruption-ridden Bureau of Customs (BoC) came in response to the latest controversy of an illegal drug shipment being moved unimpeded through a state-run port. The controversial order came shortly after Duterte replaced former BoC chief Isidro Lapeña ...
MANILA -- Students in universities, colleges and higher education institutions (HEIs) will be required to undergo mandatory random drug testing come academic year 2019-2020. Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman J. Prospero de Vera III said in a television interview Tuesday night that this action is based on the commissions' memorandum 18 ...
Lawyers and human rights groups are crying out for justice over the killing of activist-lawyer Benjamin Ramos less than a month after helping families of nine farmers who were shot dead by unknown attackers in Negros Occidental province. Ramos, 56, a founding member of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), had just bought cigarettes and was standing in front a store ...
MANILA -- Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Carlito Galvez. Jr. vowed to extend all possible support to the Naval Special Operation Group (NAVSOG) as parts of efforts to achieve peace. “Rest assured that the AFP leadership will continue to support the NAVSOG and all units of the AFP as we work together to win the peace, preserve our way of life ...
First off, let me just say that no woman asks to be sexually harassed. It doesn’t matter if you’re wearing normal clothes or a gown, this act is not the fault of the victim/s. That said, three beauty queens who were competing in the Miss Earth International 2018 in the Philippines last August have come forward with stories that they were allegedly harassed by a sponsor.
An aerial photograph of Fort William Mckinley, most of which is now known as Bonifacio Global City, dating all the way back from 1923 has surfaced online. The photograph dated January 26, 1923, showing the U.S military base where the crowded commercial and business district now stands is the subject of a Reddit thread.
Sen. Manny Pacquiao recently claimed at an open forum following his speech at Oxford University that there are no extrajudicial killings in the country. The boxer-politician was invited by Oxford Union president Stephen Horvath and society secretary Tom Brown to speak in front of the university’s prestigious debating society on November 5.
The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) announced on Monday a P25 increase in the minimum daily wage of workers in Metro Manila, an amount that labor groups called mere “crumbs.” Employers also grumbled, saying the amount would increase the cost of doing business in the Philippines and harm the country’s competitiveness.
ABOARD THE USS RONALD REAGAN -- The U.S. Navy this week signaled its resolve to maintain a strong presence in the Indo-Pacific region, holding its largest joint exercise with Japan of the year. The exercise, called Keen Sword, "demonstrates the United States' and Japan's strong commitments to a free and open Indo-Pacific region," Rear Adm. Karl Thomas told reporters ...
MANILA, Philippines (Updated 6:15 p.m.) — Sen. Leila De Lima has filed a case against Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra for allegedly violating the law when the government presented inmates convicted of crimes of “moral turpitude” as witnesses against her. De Lima filed a 22-page complaint against Guevarra and his predecessor, former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II ...
Complaints about supposed Chinese nationals causing inconvenience through acts such as taking off their shirts and defecating in public have been raised on social media by Filipinos. One Twitter user posted a photograph of a man without a shirt at a popular clothing store. According to the user, the man photographed shirtless cut in line in order to pay for the shirt, which he had just taken off.
Tacloban City—The regional party of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, the Hugpong ng Pagbabago, has endorsed the Tingog Sinirangan party-list group, which seeks to bring change, hope, and progress to Eastern Visayas. The two groups are scheduled to formalize their alliance at a ceremony at the Tacloban City Convention Center ...
MANILA, Philippines — On her last day in the Philippines, Australian missionary Sister Patricia Anne Fox urged Filipinos not to lose hope and instead unite to attain genuine reforms in the country. “The big challenge is not to lose hope, to know that if we all move together, we can bring about change,” she said at a press conference at the St. Joseph College in Quezon City ...
Despite appeals from environment groups, truckloads of trash were collected from the different cemeteries in Metro Manila as the holidays for remembering the dead ended on Friday. Garbage, however, litters the National Capital Region even on ordinary days, clogging drainage, aggravating flooding, and providing breeding grounds for disease-causing mosquitoes and vermin.
Professor Gay Jane P. Perez, PhD wins the top award of the 2018 ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women. She is the first Filipino to receive the prestigious award, besting 45 other scientists in the region. An associate professor at the UP Institute of Environmental Sciences and Meteorology (IESM), Perez won for her research on improving yield using satellite observations ...
Overseas Filipino worker Jennifer Dalquez, who was acquitted of the murder of her employer in the United Arab Emirates, has finally come home to the Philippines after four years in prison. Dalquez arrived in Manila on Friday morning along with undocumented Filipinos who availed themselves of the UAE’s three-month amnesty program.
BEIJING, China — China will be grilled over its mass detainment of Uighur minorities during a UN human rights review on Tuesday, with Washington leading demands for Beijing to come clean on how many people are held in a sprawling network of camps. As many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being kept in extra-judicial detention ...
Detained Senator Leila De Lima has filed a resolution seeking an investigation into two multi-billion projects under the government's "Build, Build, Build" program which would displace almost 200,000 families in Metro Manila. In Senate Resolution No. 927, De Lima called the appropriate Senate committee to investigate the construction of the P23-billion North Luzon Expressway ...
The Philippines ranked second in the world when it comes to cultural practices for remembering departed loved ones, according to an international index. Skymorials, an online memorials and tributes provider, announced that the country ranked second only to Mexico with a 59.9 percent score in its global index report for 2018.
MANILA
-- The possibility of further extending martial law in Mindanao has been
discussed when President Rodrigo Duterte recently convened the Executive
Committee of the National Security Council (EC-NSC), Malacañang
announced on Thursday. “Taking into account the lingering terrorist and
communist threats, the EC-NSC committed to put into study the possible
lifting ...
MANILA
-- President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday urged Filipinos to honor their
departed loved ones as he wished the Christian faithful a "solemn and
meaningful" celebration of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. “I call
on the entire nation to honor those who have gone before us in the grace
of God. Their legacy remains an important part of who we are today ...
