PEACE BY PEACE More than 68 million registered Filipino voters will be trooping to polling precincts across the country next week to cast their votes in the midterm elections, which also mark the halfway point of the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. President Marcos Jr. knows...
While momentum in the nuclear energy sector is growing, Manila Electric Company (Meralco) noted that major icant progress hinges on the enactment of the Philippine Atomic Energy Regulatory Framework Bill (PhilAtom Bill). In a briefing, Ronnie L. Aperocho, Meralco first vice president and head of...
The state-run Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) is placing its trust in the next crop of lawmakers in the 20th Congress for the extension of its charter and an increase in its annual budget, as the insurer strives to cover more farmers under its insurance program. PCIC, the implementing agency...
T he Marcos administration slashed its gross borrowings to ₱745.1 billion in the first quarter of 2025, down ₱415 billion from last year’s ₱1.16 trillion, mainly due to the absence of a retail treasury bond (RTB) issuance during the period, which had significantly boosted borrowings in...
The Pag-IBIG Fund, National Housing Authority (NHA) and the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) signed an agreement on Labor Day to construct almost 8,000 housing units in major cities as part of the government’s flagship Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino or 4PH Program. Under the...
Farmers’ groups on Sunday, May 4, accused the Marcos administration of peddling false hope to millions of Filipinos suffering from high rice prices, branding the President’s P20-per-kilo rice promise as a “grand deception” and a diversion from the country’s deepening rice crisis. The...
What have you contributed to the country? This was House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V 's very straightforward question to impeached Vice President Sara Duterte on Sunday, May 4. “Ano ba talaga ang naitulong mo sa bayan bilang Bise Presidente? Imbes na tumulong,...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will use as a target the decommissioned BRP Miguel Malvar (PS19) using missile systems from both the Philippines and the United States during a maritime strike exercise under the Balikatan Exercises in San Antonio, Zambales on Monday, May 5. The AFP treats...
Vice President Sara Duterte claimed that the recent criminal complaints filed against her brother, Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte, are part of the political attacks against their family by the Marcos administration. Vice President Sara Duterte and Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte (Inday Sara Duterte...
Four children who were excited to go to a religious youth camp, and a young couple who were supposed to have quality family time with their toddler, a two-year old boy who miraculously survived inside their wrecked car. Theirs, along with four others who were crushed to death at the SCTEX toll...
ROME (AP) — Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking the same spirit to his first conclave that 's guided his decades-long front-line ministry among the migrants, poor and Indigenous people in Guatemala’s highlands — ensuring that the Gospel isn’t preached “in the...
With less than a week before the end of the campaign period, Vice President Sara Duterte is finding herself hard at work campaigning for her father’s “Duter10” senatorial bets. Vice President Sara Duterte joins Senator Imee Marcos and Manila mayoralty candidate Isko Moreno on stage during a...
