HER request for educational assistance for her nine-year-old son had been approved. Instead of paying an annual tuition fee of P30,000, Michelle Candano pays P12,000 to the school where her son is enrolled — a benefit given…
THE Mandaue City government is eyeing to draft guidelines for business establishments like hotels and motels requiring them to fully cooperate with the police’s drug bust operations. This comes after the discovery of drug dens being operated…
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Syrian rebels began peace talks with the war-torn country’s government Monday in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, but refused to negotiate face-to-face in the first session. The talks had been billed as the first time armed…
MANILA — Zamboanga del Sur Gov. Antonio Cerilles described President Duterte’s speech during the meeting with the governors, on Thursday, as more of an appeal than a threat about the ongoing war on drugs. “At least may…
An invitation extended by Malacañang to Cebu’s mayors wasn’t exactly just for alliance building, though that was also important seeing that President Rodrigo Duterte had been harping of late about the ouster plot supposedly hatched against him…
Carrie Fisher may have passed away; but Princess Leia, the “Star Wars” character she so brilliantly portrayed, lives on in our popular imagination. The veteran actress’ death is an opportune moment to pay tribute to the galaxy’s…
BEIJING — China on Tuesday handed back to the United States an underwater drone it had seized last week in an incident that raised tensions in a relationship that has been tested by President-elect Donald Trump’s signals…
The brother of a village chief in Cordova town, Cebu, was arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) for allegedly peddling shabu (methamphetamine). Stephen Ando, 34, did not resist arrest shortly…
A NONGOVERNMENT organization in Cebu launched the first of what it hopes to be a series of dialogues on extrajudicial killings (EJK) and how to address this concern, especially in the context of violence against women and…
By Pascal Porchet Syria. Iraq. South Sudan… The number of conflicts rose over the past decades, as did the numbers of displaced people. Every day, we hear of civilians being killed or injured, too often in violation of…
Very few will probably remember that 75 years ago today, America — and with it her far -flung colony, the Philippines — finally entered World War II. So very few veterans of that brutal war are alive…
Amid the rising body count in the Duterte administration’s war on illegal drugs, Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said reports of extrajudicial killings (EJK) in the Philippines were mere conjectures and that all drug suspects who ended…
