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Comelec to resume voters registration on July 2
MANILA, Philippines – First-time registrants who wish to exercise their rights of suffrage in next year’s election may proceed to Commission on Election (Comelec) offices from July 2 to September 29....
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DILG audits local officials for underperformance in gov’t anti-drug,...
QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) started its audit procedures on local officials for underperformance in line with the administration’s...
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Suspects in the Jee Ick Joo slay case ask transfer of detention
Slain Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Primary suspects in the killing of Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo appealed for transfer of detention. In their 8-page motion, PSupt....
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Duterte likely to meet with Catholic Pope’s envoy on Friday
President Rodrigo Duterte MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte is likely to meet on Friday (June 29) Italian Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia. Caccia is the Envoy to the Philippines of...
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NCRPO Chief Eleazar relieves three MPD officers over extortion
NCRPO Director PCSupt. Guillermo Eleazar accosting the three errant policemen. MANILA, Philippines – Three police officers from Ermita Police Station were immediately relieved from their posts...
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Chinese major telecom operators announce 5G development strategies
FILE PHOTO – A man walks past a logo during the presentation the Huawei’s new smartphone, the Ascend P7, launched by China’s Huawei Technologies in Paris, May 7, 2014. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File...
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SWS: 1 in every 4 Filipinos know about federal gov’t system
MANILA, Philippines — Only one of four Filipinos are aware of the proposed federal system of government, according to the latest survey of pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS). The survey, which was...
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Prices, supply of sugar to normalize next week – SRA
QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is confident that market prices and supply of sugar will begin to normalize next week as imported sugar from Thailand is expected...
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DILG assures no whitewash in probe over Samar misencounter
QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) allayed fears of possible whitewash in the ongoing investigation into the deadly misencounter between soldiers and...
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17 local execs in Aklan face graft, other charges over Boracay mess
Aerial view of Boracay sunset (via UNTV drone) BORACAY ISLAND, Philippines – Seventeen (17) local officials of Aklan province are now facing multiple charges over irregularities in managing Boracay...
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Church not behind alleged destab plot vs. Duterte
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City on April 9, 2018 before going to China to attend Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual...
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Senators seek to empower, increase LGU funds against crime, drugs
Oath-taking of barangay officials in Tarlac MANILA, Philippines —Several senators are backing President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to...
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SM Megamall construction site catches fire
Smoke fills this part of SM Megamall as fire engulfs a portion of the construction site at Building B. (Chuck Aguilar) A fire erupted at the construction site outside SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City on...
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MIAA to replace passenger boarding bridges in NAIA 1
FILE PHOTO: Passengers in NAIA Terminal 2 (Photoville International) MANILA, Philippines — Decades-old passenger boarding bridges at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) will soon be...
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LPA now Tropical Depression Florita
Satellite image of Tropical Depression Florita as of June 29, 2018, 6:50 a.m. (Image courtesy of PAGASA) A low pressure area spotted inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility has developed into...
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Survivor claims defective firearms in Samar misencounter
At the wake of the six cops killed in the Samar misencounter TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines – Police survivors in the deadly misencounter in Samar Island said their comrades could have survived if their...
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Termination of peace talks not up to Joma Sison – Bello
Government’s chief negotiator Secretary Silvestre Bello III (left) and National Democratic Front founding chair Jose Maria Sison (right) QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Joma Sison is in no position to...
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Investors eye development of NPA ‘hotbeds’ in Davao City
Map data: 2018 Google, DigitalGlobe,CNES/Airbus DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Foreign investors and telecommunications companies are planning to invest production plants in areas once called “hotbeds”...
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Duterte says ‘that’s fine’ as Reds end peace talks
President Rodrigo Duterte. (Image grabbed from RVTM video) MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte shrugged off communist leader Jose Maria Sison’s sudden announcement that the National...
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Lorenzana slams ‘childish’ Sison; Gov’t to pursue localized peace talks
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (left) and National Democratic Front founding chair Jose Maria Sison (right) QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday (June 29)...
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