ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo remains the frontrunner in the Pre-Election Senatorial Preferential Survey conducted by Tangere from Jan. 8 to 11, despite experiencing a 5 percent drop in his voter preference. In the survey results released on Wednesday, Jan. 22, Tulfo holds a 58 percent...
CEBU CITY – He may be lagging in surveys but retired Col. Ariel Querubin is liking what he’s seeing with his senatorial bid. SENATORIAL bet retired Col. Ariel Querubin answers questions from the media during a press conference in Cebu City on Monday, Jan. 20. (Calvin Cordova) Querubin was...
ABS-CBN News gears up for the upcoming midterm elections with its comprehensive coverage of Halalan 2025 airing across multiple digital and television platforms, along with its electoral interview features, school tour programs, and launching of its live Halalan webpage. On the day of the elections...
DAVAO CITY – Davao City third district Rep. Isidro Ungab maintained on Monday, Jan. 20, that the observed discrepancies in the bicameral conference committee report on the 2025 national budget are not fake news and emphasized the blank items in the annual expenditure. A copy of the report was...
"He's lying." This was how President Marcos responded to the comments of former president Rodrigo Duterte on the 2025 national budget, which he claimed to be containing irregularities such as blank items. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. "He's lying. He's a president. He knows that...
Malacañang slammed "malicious" claims alleging President Marcos for purposely leaving certain parts of the 2025 national budget blank to simply fill in the amounts like in a blank check. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin ((John Louie Abrina) Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said in a...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Saturday, Jan. 18, that it will comply with the temporary restraining orders (TROs) issued by the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday, Jan. 17. The SC issued three more TROs that halted Comelec from disqualifying three candidates in three towns in the May 2025...
ILOILO CITY – An initial list of 17 areas with election-related concerns in the upcoming elections have been identified in Western Visayas region. DENNIS Ausan (center), head of the Commission on Elections-6, with other members of the Western Visayas Regional Joint Peace and Security Coordinating...
TACLOBAN CITY – More than 10,000 personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, and Philippine Coast Guard will be deployed across Eastern Visayas to secure the 2025 elections. They will work together with the Commission on Elections-Regional Office 8. Security...
A University of the Philippines (UP) geologist, whose research focused on assessing earthquake fault potential using satellite technology, represented Southeast Asia at this year's Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS). Dr. John Dale Dianala of UPD-CS NIGS represented UP Diliman at the GYSS 2025...
Senator Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri has filed a bill seeking to include the Province of Sulu in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). SB 2915 sets a plebiscite for this purpose and allows its constituents to once again vote on Sulu's inclusion, "now guided by the positive...
President Marcos admitted that this year's national budget was "suboptimal" but he assured that they are in the process of making remedies for it. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of PCO) "Well, I – perhaps the budget as was passed, you could describe it as...
