Fuel price hike of over P1 per liter starting April 22

Lisbet Esmael 04/21/2025

MANILA, Philippines – After hefty price cuts last week, oil companies will again increase pump prices by more than P1 a liter starting April 22, as fears of global supply issues have surfaced. In separate advisories, Seaoil…

Balisacan: PH can achieve upper-middle income status by 2026

04/21/2025

The Philippines’ income status may soon shift to upper-middle income by 2026, the state’s top socioeconomic planner said, if the country can maintain annual economic growth of at least 6 percent. At a press conference, Seretary Arsenio…

Comelec: No need to place Albuera, Leyte under ‘red’ category 

Nestor Corrales 04/13/2025

MANILA, Philippines — There was no need to place Albuera town in Leyte under “red category,” or areas with serious armed threats, after confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa was shot during a campaign rally on Thursday, according…

Palace says Marcos is healthy amid social media brouhaha

Julie Aurelio 04/12/2025

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is in the pink of health, contrary to the unfounded social media conjectures that he is sick because of his supposedly bleeding gums at a military event on Wednesday. Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary…

Pulse Asia survey: Bato rises; Aquino, Marcoleta in ‘Magic 12’

04/12/2025

There have been some significant movements in Pulse Asia’s latest preelection survey with only a month to go before the May 12 polls. The “Ulat ng Bayan” preelection survey was conducted from March 23 to March 29,…

Gov’t asked to certify P200 wage bill as urgent

Jerome Aning, Krixia Subingsubing 04/06/2025

MANILA, Philippines — The chair of the House committee on labor and employment and the country’s major labor groups, in separate statements, are making an appeal to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to certify as urgent the P200…

Cebu hopes for return of missing Argao pulpit panels

04/05/2025

With the return of the Boljoon pulpit panels after about four decades, it turns out that another church in Cebu Province also lost its old pulpit panels many years ago. Built from 1788 to the 1830s, the church of…

Court denies Jinggoy Estrada bid to dismiss graft charges

Kathleen de Villa 04/05/2025

The trial of Sen. Jinggoy Estrada for his remaining graft case in the Sandiganbayan over the alleged diversion of more than P200 million in pork barrel funds will proceed after the court junked his motion on the…

Kerwin Espinosa wants to be Albuera mayor, fight drugs

Joey Gabieta 04/02/2025

ALBUERA, LEYTE, Philippines — Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa, once identified by the police as the biggest drug lord in Eastern Visayas, is running for mayor here on a platform of ridding his hometown of illegal drugs. But instead…

4 Filipinos in Myanmar reported missing – DFA

Jane Bautista, TIna Santos 03/31/2025

MANILA, Philippines — Four Filipinos in Myanmar remain unaccounted for after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the country on Friday, a Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) official said on Sunday. “The latest information is that four [Filipinos]…

Mindanao, Visayas rallies greet Duterte on his 80th birthday

Germelina Lacorte 03/30/2025

DAVAO CITY—Supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte again came out in a show of force on Friday for their beleaguered leader, who turned 80 as a detainee at The Hague while his name remained on the ballot…

PH hunger rate at 27.2%, highest since pandemic – SWS

03/30/2025

MANILA, Philippines — More Filipinos experienced involuntary hunger—or being hungry and having nothing to eat—at least once in the past three months, results from a recent national survey by Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Stratbase showed. The…

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