LAGAWE, Ifugao – The Ifugao Provincial Police Office nabbed the Cordillera region’s Top 5 most wanted person during the implementation of a warrant of arrest in Barangay Santa Maria, Alfonso Lista, Ifugao on Good Friday. Ifugao police chief Col. Davy Limmong identified the suspect as Vergel...
Four Korean celebrities have enlisted in the military on March 20 to fulfill their mandatory duty as citizens. Korean actor Nam Joo-hyuk and K-pop idols Y (Choi SungYun) of Golden Child, Kang Seung-sik of Victon and Cha Hun of rock band N. Flying all entered the military camps today and will...
TACLOBAN CITY – A woman received two life sentences for sexually abusing minors, including her daughter, in exchange for money from online sex offenders. The Regional Trial Court Branch 10 in the municipality of Abuyog, Leyte found the accused guilty of qualified trafficking, child abuse, and...
The House Committee on Basic Education and Culture on Monday, March 13, formed a technical working group (TWG) to consolidate House Bills (HBs) 346, 549, and 6940, which would provide protection for teachers from wrongful allegations of child abuse. The three bills—Institutionalizing support...
ANAKALUSUGAN Party-list Rep. Rey Reyes has slammed the seeming lack of a focused government response to the worsening child labor problem in the country. (Unsplash) “The half a million jump in the number of child laborers in the country from 2020 should be raising red flags. This is...
Another K-pop idol is set to enlist in the military, a mandatory for all Korean men. K-pop boy band Golden Child member Y (Choi Sung-yun) will start his military service on March 20. In a notice on Feb. 27, Woollim Entertainment, the group’s agency, said, “We notify about enlistment...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Discipleship is essentially diakonia or service down to the lowliest ones: the children. The stance of genuine service comes from treating each one as equal. In the Jewish society where children are considered as having no social status until they reach adulthood, Jesus shows his...
A member of K-pop boy band Golden Child who suffered facial fracture after being hit with a golf club last September is set to resume his career. On Sept. 28 last year, Golden Child’s Choi Bomin “was hit in the face with a wood golf club that another person was using during a practice session....
Globe Telecom Inc. blocked over 400,000 links and malicious websites containing child pornography last year, in support of the government’s war against Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC), the telco announced Wednesday, February 15. Overall, Globe blocked 399,540 URLs and...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday, February 14 reiterated his call for the government to launch a stronger crackdown on various forms of child trafficking, including the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC). Gatchalian made the call as the National Awareness Week on the...
JOJO RINOZA / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN As the country commemorates the National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, the Department of Education (DepEd) underscored the urgent need to protect learners from all possible forms of abuse. “Atin pang mas...
“Harsh provisions”, like imprisonment, await non-custodial parents who refuse and neglect to pay child support if the proposed measure by Northern Samar 1st District Rep. Paul Ruiz Daza becomes law. (Ye Jinghan/ Unsplash) Daza’s House Bill (HB) No. 44, entitled “An Act Ensuring Child...
