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MANILA, Philippines — ACT Teachers party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio on Thursday criticized President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on what he described as the latter’s inaction on the issue of transboundary haze that originated from Indonesia, which also affected the air quality in parts of the Philippines.  Tinio made this remark during the House sponsorship and plenary

Philippine Lawmakers Summon Zuckerberg Amid Growing Social Media Safety Issues MARK ZUCKERBERG – A major congressional hearing on online safety is set to put Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg under the spotlight in the Philippines. The Philippine House of Representatives has called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before lawmakers in a congressional ... Read more

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MANILA – Only eight people remain missing from the MV June Aster after the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) confirmed that four passengers listed in the vessel’s ticket manifest did not board, bringing the number of confirmed persons onboard to 128. In a statement on Thursday, PCG spokesperson Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said the four passengers confirmed

Rosalie Repaja still remembers telling her nine-year-old son to leave the creekside and eat with her shortly before he was swept away by strong currents in a flooded creek in Barangay Budlaan, Cebu City, on Tuesday, September 15.

Pete “Thunder” Apolinar will make his seventh trip to Japan, hoping to return home with another victory when he fights in the undercard of an International Boxing Federation (IBF) world title clash on September 26 in Shizuoka, Japan.

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Four centuries ago, a German mathematician named Kepler spent his life charting the invisible laws that keep the planets in motion. Today, a 25-year-old from the uplands of Tuburan who happens to share that name has just plotted a trajectory of his own from a farming barangay with no engineers in

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Kiko Pangilinan brought some levity to the Senate committee on finance’s budget deliberations for the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Thursday, breaking into a song with a line from his wife Sharon Cuneta’s hit “Bituing Walang Ningning.” After discussing how better-organized farmers could help boost food supply and reduce hunger,

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Energy (DOE) targets installing 7,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging points before 2028, a DOE official told the Senate finance subcommittee on Thursday. The agency’s goal is in line with its commitment to expand and promote the adoption of EVs in the Philippines, reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, and

MANILA, Philippines — The low-pressure area (LPA) off Palawan is forecast to continue bringing rains over Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao until Friday, Sept. 18, the state weather bureau said. In its weather advisory issued at 4 p.m., the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that gloomy skies with scattered rains and