The Philippines is the most stressed and the second angriest and saddest country in Southeast Asia in 2021, according to a report conducted by global analytic firm Gallup. The Gallup Global Emotions Report measures "the world's emotional temperature" through extensive surveys and studies that...
Six K-pop groups emerged in the top 10 of album sales in the US in the first half of 2022. Luminate (formerly P-MRC Data), which supplies Billboard with music data for its charts, has released its 2022 “Luminate Midyear Music Report” covering the US. (Clockwise from top left) BTS, Stray...
The Commission on Audit (COA) cited the Parañaque city government for its fair and transparent financial statement report on Tuesday, June 21. Mayor Edwin Olivarez and City Administrator Fernando Soriano. (Photo from Parañaque PIO) Mayor Edwin Olivarez thanked National Capital Region (NCR) COA...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima expressed her dismay Saturday, June 4 over the archiving of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee report on the investigation of multi-billion peso ‘’anomalous’’ contracts between Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation and the government amid the Covid-19 pandemic....
The Senate has ratified the bicameral conference committee report on a bill repealing Republic Act (RA) 10000, or the Agri-Agra Reform Credit Act of 2009, to enhance access of agricultural communities to financial services and programs that increase productivity. Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on member states to undertake steps that give more importance to people’s happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development. The resolution...
For having the widest 5G reach and best 4G coverage experience, Smart Communications, Inc. won the most number of citations in the latest Opensignal Mobile Network Experience Awards. 81378 In Opensignal's April 2022 report, covering Jan. 1 to Mar. 31, 2022, Smart won a total of 11 awards, including...
The Department of Transportation ( DOTr) completed a total of 246 airport projects from 2016 to 2022 under the Duterte administration. DOTr alone managed to complete three times the previous administration's output of 55 airport projects, confirmed DOTr Assistant Secretary for Aviation and Airports...
ICTSI: 2021 was our best year By EMMIE V. ABADILLA International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) "had its best year ever in 2021" despite the global pandemic raging on in its second year, with cases surging at different times and lockdowns being imposed in one region or another, Chairman...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año denounced on Tuesday, April 19, the United States State Department’s 2021 Country Report on Human Rights Practices claiming the alleged abuses committed by the country’s security forces. He said the report is a mere...
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III on Friday, April 8 said departments and offices under the executive branch should report to the Senate on its expenditures in connection with its the Covid-19 pandemic response. These are, according to Pimentel, the Department of Finance (DOF), Department of Health...
LAOAG, Ilocos Norte--The country’s national language "will go back to Ilocano". Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos greets his fellow Ilocanos in Laoag, Ilocos Norte on March 25, 2022 (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) This was UniTeam presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos's tongue-in-cheek...
