Three films from the 2025 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival are major winners in the 49th Gawad Urian awards ceremony: “Bloom Where You Are Planted,” “Cinemartyrs,” and  “Republika ng Pipolipinas.” “Bloom Where You Are Planted“ won four awards:  Best Picture, Best Documentary, Best Direction for Noni Abao, and Best Editing. “Republika ng Pipolipinas” won Best Screenplay

MANILA, Philippines — China could “easily win” a military conflict with the Philippines, but it would not use force to settle maritime disputes between the two countries. This was what Beijing’s ambassador to Manila said on Thursday. Ambassador Jing Quan, however, warned that the Philippines faced a greater risk of confrontation if it did not

BAGUIO CITY – Hydropower firm SN Aboitiz Power-Benguet Inc. (SNAPBI) has committed P4 million to support the construction of the Itogon Super Health Center, supplementing the P20-million funding secured from the Department of Health (DOH) in 2025. The municipal government of Itogon and SNAPBI signed a memorandum of agreement on Oct. 12 at the municipal

MANILA, Philippines — Pasay City Police Chief Col. Joselito de Sesto has been relieved of his post, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) confirmed on Friday. “[He was] administratively relieved pending investigation,” NCRPO spokesperson Maj. Hazel Asilo said in a Viber message to the INQUIRER. READ: NCRPO chief urges cops to stay alert amid

MANILA, Philippines – The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) said over 16 million Filipinos residing in areas formerly controlled by communist rebels  have benefited from development projects under the Barangay Development Program (BDP). These individuals reside in about 5,638 villages formerly controlled by the  Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s

MANILA, Philippines — Three weather systems—the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), easterlies, and northeasterly wind flow—are expected to bring rain showers across the country on Friday, the state weather bureau reported. In its morning forecast, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the ITCZ, or the area where winds from the northern and

TUGUEGARAO CITY – A man drowned inside his car after it fell down a 70-meter-deep ravine and onto the river in the Mountain Province town of Sabangan on October 15. The remains of Noel Padsing Tukiad, a resident of Sagada town, also in Mountain Province, was retrieved hours later on Thursday by rescue teams deployed to