Vice presidential candidate Doctor Willie Ong urged the government on Wednesday, Feb. 16, to adopt a public health approach in its war against drugs. He said that drug addiction is a public health issue, citing various studies and reports that attest to the "chronic and relapsing nature" of...
Priests from the Archdiocese of Manila will hold a “penitential walk” on Thursday, Feb. 17, to pray for the voters as they choose the country’s next leaders in the May 2022 polls. Photo Manila Cathedral FB “We ask our fellow Filipinos to be ‘maka-Diyos kaya makabayan,’ to discern their...
With about three months to go before the May 9, 2022national elections, Filipinos are in no way “married” to their perceived chosen candidates, so they can expect to be wooed to change their minds until the second they cast their votes, vice presidential bet and Senate President Vicente...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday, Feb. 16, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Vote Pilipinas for the May 2022 polls. Screenshot/Comelec FB Comelec Acting Chairperson Socorro Inting led the signing at the Manila Hotel together with other poll officials. "This Memorandum of...
Fresh from discrediting a Pulse Asia survey that placed Vice President Leni Robredo a far second from her main rival, former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., senatorial candidate Antonio Trillanes IV claimed on Wednesday, Feb. 16, that even his own candidacy has been on an “upward trajectory”...
CEB expands international network By EMMIE V. ABADILLA 66215 Cebu Pacific (CEB) has resumed its thrice weekly flights to Bangkok, plus weekly flights to Fukuoka and Jakarta, after the government eased arrival quarantine restrictions and reopened borders for tourists this February. Next month, CEB...
Eastern Visayas region’s most influential political party, An Waray partylist, has declared its all-out support for the senatorial bid of Sorsogon Governor Francis “Chiz” Escudero in the upcoming May 2022 national elections. Party-list Rep. Florencio “Bem” Noel, personally relayed to...
NVIDIA announced that it will host its GTC 2022 conference virtually from March 21-24, with a news-filled keynote by its founder and CEO Jensen Huang and more than 900 sessions from 1,400 speakers, including some of the world’s top researchers and industry leaders in AI, high performance...
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has appealed for a Lenten season of “reparation rosary for truth, integrity, and wisdom” starting Ash Wednesday, March 2 until Holy Wednesday, April 13. Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan (CBCP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a pastoral...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday said he is honored to still be part of the senatorial slate of Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III’s ticket. “I’d like to say, I am honored ot be part of the slate. Kilala ko sina (I’ve known) Sen. Lacson at...
Former Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista on Tuesday said he will pursue a measure that would provide tax relief for those in the entertainment industry should he win in the upcoming May 2022 senatorial elections. Bautista, who is running for senator in the upcoming polls, noted how entertainers...
After the dismal decision of the First Division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for them, a group of petitioners on Tuesday, Feb. 15, filed a motion for reconsideration before the Comelec en Banc asking it to reverse the decision dismissing their disqualification petition against...
