Woman Grandmaster Janelle Mae Frayna settled for a 40-move draw of a Queen’s Pawn game with Jan Jodilyn Fronda to stay on top after the 10th and penultimate round in the 2021 National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE building in Quezon City Thursday. The standoff kept the top-seeded...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has released a resolution enumerating certain guidelines on the checkpoints that will be hoisted for the coming May 2022 national and local elections. Police conduct a checkpoint in Manila to apprehend violators of the election gun ban and other poll offenses....
The Duterte administration can tap over P20 billion that are under the proposed national budget for 2022 to help victims of Typhoon Odette. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, made the statement in response to President Duterte’s statement the government may be having...
Region III stood out in the recently-concluded four-day 2021 Philippine National Skills Competition (PNSC) of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), the agency said on Tuesday, Dec. 21. Winners of the 2021 Philippine National Skills Competition (PNSC) of the Technical...
Janelle Mae Frayna Top seed Janelle Mae Frayna outlasted Allaney Jia Doroy to share a share of lead with four others after six rounds of the 2021 National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE building in Quezon City Tuesday. The 24-year-old Frayna survived the marathon 91-move duel of an...
The government has administered more than 2.5 million doses during the second round of the "Bayanihan Bakunahan" in some areas from Dec. 15 to 18, an official from the Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, Dec. 20. Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site...
Jan Jodilyn Fronda Jan Jodilyn Fronda and Kylen Joy Mordido repulsed their rivals to seize the share of the lead after four rounds in the 2021 National Women’s Chess Championship at the PACE Building in Quezon City Monday. Fronda, who ruled the tournament for the first time two years ago, turned...
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has directed the full implementation of the country's long-overdue National Sardines Management Plan (NSMP), citing declining sardines catch over the years. “We can no longer ignore the critical need to manage our sardine fisheries. This means that all 12...
Ruelle Canino Ruelle Canino pulled off the biggest shocker at the start of the National Women’s Chess Championship after pulling the rug from under top seed Woman Grandmaster Janelle Mae Frayna Saturday at the PACE building in Quezon City. Canino, a 13-year-old sensation from Cagayan de Oro,...
The Far Eastern University (FEU) is set to offer special programs for uniformed personnel under its partnership with the National Capital Region-Regional Special Training Unit (RSTU-NCR) of the Philippine National Police (PNP). (Photo from FEU) FEU said that under the agreement, it will serve as...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday urged the National Electrification Administrtaion (NEA) to immediately utilize the Electric Cooperatives Emergency and Resiliency Fund (ECERF) to help electric cooperatives affected by Typhoon Odette restore power lines within their areas. Gatchalian, who chairs...
(Photo from Janelle Mae Frayna's Facebook account) A slot to the Philippine team bound for the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam next year is up for grabs in the ongoing National Women’s Chess Championships at the PACE building in Quezon City. The tournament, which also dangles...
