DTI: P500 ‘noche buena’ enough for a family of 4

Logan Kal-El M. Zapanta 11/28/2025

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Friday, November 28, insisted on its claim that P500 was enough to purchase “noche buena” for a family of four, citing its price guide to show to…

Russian vlogger to be deported after harassing Filipinos in BGC

John Eric Mendoza - Reporter / @JEMendozaINQ 04/03/2025

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has placed under its custody the Russian vlogger, who drew the public’s ire for harassing Filipinos in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig, pending his deportation. Following the vlogger’s…

Market manipulation: Calata guilty, says Makati court

Tyrone Jasper C. Piad - @inquirerdotnet 06/05/2024

MANILA, Philippines — For providing “misleading and exagerrated” claims over the supposed $1.4 billion Mactan Leisure City project that inflated the firm’s share price in 2016, Calata Corp. chair Joseph Calata and another company official were fined…

As Germany ends nuclear era, activist says still more to do

Reuters 04/16/2023

BERLIN — Heinz Smital was a 24-year-old nuclear physics researcher when he first saw how far nuclear contamination could spread after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. A few days after it occurred he waved a damp cloth…

‘Biggest ever repatriation in PH history’ is ongoing

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher/Writer / @CeBacligINQ 08/12/2021

MANILA, Philippines—Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. was not exaggerating when he described the ongoing repatriation of Filipinos from various countries as the biggest in Philippine history. The last mass repatriation of this magnitude took place in…

Kanlaon Volcano records 3 volcanic quakes in 24 hrs

Darryl John Esguerra - Reporter / @DJEsguerraINQ 11/29/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Kanlaon Volcano on the island of Negros continues its restlessness as it registered three volcanic earthquakes in a span of 24 hours. In an advisory on Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology…

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