FACES OF CEBU: Brando Ray Raya, lawyer/seasoned runner

Glendale Rosal 12/15/2024

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The running fever has caught many Cebuanos embrace the active and healthy lifestyle. What started as a convenient and accessible form of exercise has grown into a passion for many, with runners…

Bar Exam Results 2024: List of topnotchers, passers

12/13/2024

The Supreme Court of the Philippines announced the 2024 Bar Exam Results on Friday, December 13, 2024. The 2024 bar examinations were held on September 8, 11, and 15, 2024, and are headed by the Supreme Court…

Banning social media for people under 16 in Australia: Will it work?

12/04/2024

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until…

SC: Chat logs, videos may be used as evidence in criminal cases

Benjamin Pulta 12/04/2024

MANILA – The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that the ubiquitous online chat logs and videos may be used as evidence without violating the right to privacy if they are used to determine if a crime has…

RTC urges erring notaries public to correct illegal practices

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 08/22/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Office of the Executive Judge of the Regional Trial court here met on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, the representatives of the several notaries public, whose offices are located within the vicinity of…

Farmers’ group: Rice tariff law results to P44B in economic losses

Russel Loreto 05/06/2024

MANILA, Philippines — A farmers’ group wants to get rid of the rice tariffication law or Republic Act No. 11203. They don’t think the changes proposed by the House of Representatives will fix the problem of expensive rice.…

Marcos signs ‘anti-no permit, no exam’ bill into law

Jean Mangaluz 03/16/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. announced on Friday that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has the “Anti-No Permit, No Exam Act” into law. Revilla, the main proponent of the law, praised its passage as Republic Act…

Marcos signs expanded Centenarian Law

Jean Magaluz 02/26/2024

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday has signed the expanded Centenarian Law that gives P10,000 to Filipinos who turn 80, 85, 90, and 95 years old. He signed the amendment to the Centenarian Law,…

FACES OF CEBU: Paulo Batulan, lone Cebuano topnotcher in 2023 Bar exams

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 12/10/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Nothing can beat the surprises that life can give us when we do not give up to reach the success we all dreamed of. “Delayed success.” This is how the lone topnotcher from…

Jimmy Bondoc passes 2023 Bar Exams

Hannah Mallorca 12/06/2023

OPM singer-songwriter Jimmy Bondoc is one of the 3,812 successful examinees of the 2023 Bar Examinations, which was released by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Born James Patrick Romero Bondoc, the singer was included…

Philippines considers return to ‘fold’ of International Criminal Court

11/24/2023

MANILA — The Philippines is considering resuming membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) nearly five years after it withdrew over objections to a bid by the court to investigate a bloody anti-narcotics campaign, the president said…

To teach law in the grand manner

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 11/22/2023

“Kung hindi tayo kikibo, sino ang kikibo? Kung hindi tayo kikilos, sino ang kikilos? Kung hindi ngayon, kailan pa?” A slogan lifted from the  editorial column by  Abraham “Ditto” Sarmiento, Jr.  who was the Philippine Collegian editor-in-chief…

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