President Duterte's leadership in government efforts to protect people's lives – one from a virus that caused a pandemic, and the other, from a terrorist attack that caused the five-month war in Marawi City – will be among the major highlights of his six-year presidency. President...
Still misunderstood since it wreaked havoc in the 1980s, this epidemic keeps spreading through shame, secrecy, and silence Northern Samar is stepping up its drive against human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) to rid the province of the illness. The local...
Congratulating this year’s awardees of the Nestlé Wellness Academy Claremont School of Valenzuela has been recognized by the Nestlé Wellness Academy (NWA) as its Best in Class awardee, topping the program’s inter-school competition among private schools across the country for School Year...
President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. did not spend any of his personal funds for the whole duration of his campaign according to a member of his legal team, Atty. Drixel Dabatos. President-elect Ferdinand 'Bongbong' R. Marcos Jr. His camp filed his Statement of Contributions and...
Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday hailed the filing of graft charges against the 43 Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials who are involved in the so-called “pastillas scam” or bribery scandal that allowed the illegal entry of Chinese citizens in the country. Hontiveros said she is...
Finance Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said the government would need an additional P250-billion per year to bring down the government’s financing gap to a figure comparable to the pre-pandemic level of 3.4 percent. This developed as the Department of Finance (DOF) warned Tuesday, June 7, that...
The government lost billions of pesos in power subsidies and tax incentives to now-defunct Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines Inc. (HHIC-Phil), the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) said. In a statement Tuesday, June 7, Finance Assistant Secretary and FIRB Secretariat Head...
‘I want it to feel like we belong—this is us.’ Basketball has been a big part of Filipino culture. A testament to that are the courts seen everywhere, not just in Manila, but also in different parts of the Philippines. There, players young and old pass the ball to each other, practice...
Jenna Ortega becomes Wednesday Addams From gracing the cartoon newspaper section to TV and the big screen, “The Addams Family” has been bringing laughs with a touch of scare to its readers and viewers with its satirical view of the ideal 20th-century family. This time, it heads to streaming...
TG Villanueva presents his art at ‘ Todo Loco ’ exhibit in Australia Is there anything good that happens when people are in rage? We see it all the time, on the streets, in politics, and even in our homes. It always demands violence and hatred, and to put an end to it, revenge, which makes it...
How is the Filipinos’ state of emotional and psychological wellbeing? Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Steven J. Robinson answers the question 'What conversation do you want to start about mental health?' The last few years have been a wild ride. With the ongoing recovery from the...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) said it will maintain a neutral stance on the intra-corporate dispute involving the hotel-casino Okada Manila in Parañaque City. Roderick R. Consolacion, Pagcor chief legal counsel, said the gaming regulator follows the law and court processes on...
