MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of the 2024, 2025 and 2026 national budgets for violating constitutional limits on government spending, ruling that Congress cannot increase the President’s total recommended appropriations while emphasizing that unprogrammed funds are not unconstitutional per se but must be subject to strict safeguards. In a

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) is expanding access to selected first-line antituberculosis (TB) medicines through its Guaranteed and Accessible Medications for Outpatient Treatment (Gamot) program. The expanded benefit will take effect on Nov. 1, giving eligible patients additional access to prescribed TB medicines, according to PhilHealth Circular No. 2026-0018. “Eligible patients

MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla claimed on Tuesday that arresting Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, who has been ordered arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for being a coperpetrator in former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, could lead to 10,000 deaths. This is reason the government is negotiating for his surrender, Remulla

MANILA, Philippines — A college degree in biology, earned only two years ago at that, is not the kind of credential that usually comes to mind when filling a ranking position on the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP). A fashion pictorial with the Eiffel Tower in the background hardly makes for convincing optics

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA) said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) failed to collect around P521.26 million worth of fees from the use of forest lands, foreshore and protected areas because of the lack of collection strategies and weak enforcement and monitoring. In its 2025 annual audit report, the

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte was a no-show at the budget hearing of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) at the Senate on Tuesday. OVP Chief of Staff Atty. Zuleika Lopez, along with other staff members, were in attendance instead to defend the office’s P785.2 million proposed budget for 2027 before the

BANGA, SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — A 14-year-old student wounded in the Sept. 18 shooting at Banga National High School is slowly recovering at home but continues to struggle with impaired vision more than a month after a bullet struck her head. The student, identified only as “Gay,” lost sight in her left eye, while her

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — This city is proposing a P4.143-billion budget for 2027, up 13 percent from this year’s allocation, as the mountain resort city seeks to sustain economic growth and advance its shift toward a circular economy and smart city governance. The proposed budget comes as long-delayed national government redevelopment projects in the city

CALASIAO, PANGASINAN, Philippines — “Bangus” (milkfish) producers are struggling to recover their production costs as expenses rise and farm-gate prices of the country’s national fish decline. The sharp drop in farm-gate prices from P200 to P125 per kilogram on Oct. 12 and Oct. 13 highlighted a growing challenge for the province’s bangus industry: higher production

As new clues emerge about Park Min-Hwan and the crime scene, Jae-Hee risks her cover to get closer to the truth. Read on to know what happened in Love in Disguise Episode 2