COA denies PCSO appeal on Provident Fund disallowance in 2012
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Audit (COA) has rejected the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s (PCSO) petition for review regarding the disallowed P313.51 million payment to the PCSO...
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IN PHOTOS: Pasigarbo sa Sugbo 2024 returns to Cebu City
CEBU, Philippines – The sound of rain and cheer echoed through Osmeña Boulevard in Cebu City as thousands of residents and performers came to dance at the Pasigarbo sa Sugbo 2024 on Sunday, August 25....
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Protesting Quiboloy group, police clash outside KOJC as standoff intensifies
DAVAO, Philippines – Violence erupted Sunday night, August 25, as tensions escalated during a street protest against ongoing police operations to capture fugitive doomsday preacher Apollo Quiboloy at...
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Reuters safety adviser killed, two journalists injured in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk
Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news...
View ArticleIs the Philippines an outlier in ASEAN?
Countries are like people. They have friends, some closer than others. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN, for one, is a membership club of friends and neighbors. It’s 57 years old, a...
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[OPINION] Is there a way forward for the opposition? Not with feigned cuteness
The 2025 mid-term elections will not only be a battle of messaging and resources. It will test the political clout and mobilization smarts of the Marcoses and the Dutertes, the two dynasties in the...
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Alice Guo’s sister, Porac POGO staff to face Senate
MANILA, Philippines – After an embarrassing lapse that let dismissed mayor Alice Guo out of the country, Philippine agents pulled off in only a few days a cross-border operation to make up for it: get...
View ArticleElon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models
Tesla chief Elon Musk, who also owns social media platform X, said on Monday, August 26, he feels California should pass an artificial intelligence bill that would require tech companies and AI...
View ArticleCanada to reduce number of temporary foreign workers
TORONTO, Canada – Canada is reducing by tens of thousands the number of temporary foreign workers it brings in, reversing some expansions to the program it made in 2022 as the government struggles to...
View ArticleMalaysia charges ex-PM Muhyiddin with sedition over alleged remarks on...
GUA MUSANG, Malaysia – Malaysia has charged opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin with sedition for allegedly insulting the country’s former king, his lawyer said on Tuesday,...
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Philippine startups Mober, Zed, and Lista in Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list
MANILA, Philippines – Three fast-rising Philippine companies — Mober, Zed, and Lista — made it to the annual Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list, which spotlights startups and small companies in the Asia...
View ArticleChina spent $15.3 billion on Pacific exercises in 2023, internal Taiwan...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China spent about $15 billion, or 7% of its defense budget, on exercises in the Western Pacific in 2023, according to a previously unpublished Taiwanese estimate, showing Beijing’s...
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Fines for those without RFID, have insufficient balance on tollways deferred...
MANILA, Philippines – Motorists without electronic toll collection (ETC) devices or those with insufficient radio frequency identification (RFID) balances will not yet get penalties while plying toll...
View ArticleTelegram CEO arrested over probe into child porn, drug trafficking on app
PARIS, France – Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France as part of an investigation into crimes related to child pornography, drug trafficking, and...
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Davao journalists covering standoff face hostility from Quiboloy supporters
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Renz Barbarona, a Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) reporter, was up early on Monday, August 26, to check the situation at a section of Carlos P. Garcia Highway near the...
View ArticleWhen is the Venice Film Festival 2024, and what can we expect?
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world, with its 81st edition opening on Wednesday, August 28. Below are some facts about the festival and the 2024 contenders:...
View ArticleDOJ on ‘slow’ pace of Alice Guo case: ‘We cannot strong-arm it’
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Justice (DOJ) defended its “strategy” in the qualified trafficking case against dismissed mayor Alice Guo, saying that although they ideally want a fast...
View ArticleDOJ to charge Shiela Guo, Cassandra Ong for disobedience to summons
MANILA, Philippines – Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors moved to sue Shiela Guo (Zhang Mier) and Katherine Cassandra Ong over disobedience to summons. In addition, prosecutors also ordered the...
View ArticleSB19, BINI give shoutout to P-pop community at Billboard Korea’s ‘K Power 100’
MANILA, Philippines – P-pop groups SB19 and BINI promised to continue cultivating Filipino music on the international stage as they received the “Voices of Asia” award from Billboard Korea during the...
View ArticleHow these Mindanaoan youth are helping break stigma in their communities
MANILA, Philippines – In 2023, they were a youth organization that only had five active volunteers. A year later, they were catapulted to the limelight as an awardee at the 21st Ten Accomplished Youth...
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