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TUGUEGARAO CITY- The body of a 13-year-old boy, the second of two drowning victims, was retrieved from the churning waters of the Cagayan River on Tuesday afternoon, according to rescuers from Enrile town.  Gian Agpalasin, 13, and his friend, Jhony Baquiran, also 13, drowned when they swam and dove into the river with six other

MANILA, Philippines — A hypothetical 2028 presidential-vice presidential tandem of Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo and Sen. Raffy Tulfo is in a statistical tie with the tandem of Vice President Sara Duterte and Sen. Imee Marcos, according to an Octa Research survey. Results of the polling firm’s “Tugon ng Masa” survey released Wednesday showed Robredo

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) honored its agent who was killed in a buy-bust operation in Tawi-Tawi. In a statement on Wednesday, PDEA said the remains of Intelligence Officer I Enfernie Jim Dayag were brought to the agency’s chapel for a ceremony at its national headquarters in Quezon City on Tuesday.

TACLOBAN CITY- –Matag-ob, Leyte Mayor Bernardino Tacoy and 13 other municipal officials and police personnel are facing a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman over an allegedly unauthorized cockfighting event held in the municipality during its annual fiesta in June. The 38-page affidavit-complaint, filed by Jennifer Torrevillas and received by the Ombudsman on August

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Pampanga declared the province under a state of calamity in its regular session on Wednesday to be able to immediately respond to the needs of flood victims in 287 barangays in 17 towns and cities, Vice Gov. Dennis Pineda announced. The provincial legislative board made the declaration at

MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker and various labor groups on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to nullify court orders postponing the P85 minimum wage hike for grave abuse and lack of jurisdiction on the part of the lower courts. Kamanggagawa Partylist Rep. Eli San Fernando and eight labor organizations filed a petition for certiorari and

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) and Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Tuesday for the rollout of the SSS Loan Lite, a digital micro-loan facility offering qualified members quick cash loans. Powered by RCBC’s DiskarTech mobile app, the micro-loan facility aims to provide qualified members with accessible,

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Consumers in Metro Cebu on Wednesday, Aug. 12, will face another round of rotational brownouts as the Visayas grid has been placed under red alert once more.  Power distributor Visayan Electric Company (Veco), in an advisory, warned that it will implement rotational brownouts in a total of 105 areas in its

MANILA, Philippines – Defense counsel Kristine Ferrer asks state auditor Xylene Del Campo during Day 15 of Vice President Sara Duterte to read activities listed in OVP’s Protective Intelligence Operations Report, which was submitted in response to the Audit Observation Memorandum (AOM). As Ferrer points to a timeline of activities in the document, she asked Del

MANILA, Philippines — The Senate impeachment court got heated on Wednesday, particularly between the defense and prosecution, with private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan even claiming in jest that she is holding herself from “spanking” her counterpart counsel. The heated exchange between both parties occurred in the defense’s cross-examination of Commission on Audit Intelligence and Confidential Funds