REVIEW | ‘Deadma Walking’ is a comedy that makes you smile through your tears

It's a three-hankie – no, make that five-hankie --- full length feature that is ultimately life-affirming.

LOOK | Big stars, elaborate floats highlight MMFF Parade of Stars

Vic Sotto, Vice Ganda, Coco Martin, Daniel Padilla, Jennylyn Mercado, Derek Ramsay, and Pia Wurtzbach were on the floats.

LOOK | Prayers, presidential concern comfort the kin of 37 trapped in Davao mall...

Prayers and presidential concern, besides the heroic efforts of firefighters. That was all that families of 37 people missing in the fire that hit NCCC Mall in Davao held on to Sunday morning, as the fire raged for more than 20 hours.

BEGONE FOREVERMORE | Tourists reminded that ‘La Presa’ a protected area

The set of the hit telenovela remains a tourist attraction more than two years after the show concluded in the summer of 2015.
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Damage by ‘Urduja’ reaches P1.5B

Damage from Tropical Depression Urduja has reached an estimated PHP1.5 billion, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Saturday.
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LRT to have shorter operating hours on Christmas and New Year

The Light Rail Transit (LRT) system will implement shorter operating hours during Christmas and New Year.

 The Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) issued a schedule of operating hours of LRT Line 1. Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) has released LRT Line 2’s train operating schedules for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

REFLECTION | ‘And the Word became flesh and lived among us’

This Christmas season, let us pray, reflect, and take the journey together as one people of faith and hope who are united in love.
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SWS Q4 survey: Expectation of happy Christmas highest in 14 years

About three in four (77%) of adult Filipinos, statistically, expect a happy Christmas, while 5% expect it to be sad and 18% are neither...
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Potential contamination from flooded CDO production wells prompts temporary stoppage of city water service

Cagayan de Oro City has been hit by water shortage after the Cagayan de Oro City Water District (COWD) shut down operations of production...
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LOOK | #VintaPH leaves more than 100 dead in mudslides, flooding

MANILA - (UPDATED, 4:45 pm, Dec. 24) Tropical storm #VintaPH in and around Mindanao triggered mudslides and flash floods that killed more than 100...

UNBREAKABLE | Self-healing glass repairs itself if pressed together

Researchers in Japan say they have developed the world's first "self-repairing glass" that can be stuck back together by hand when broken.
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WHO updates Q&A on Dengvaxia

Amid the brewing controversy and apparent public confusion regarding the use of the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia in the Philippines, the World Health Organization has...
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WATCH | 37 missing in Davao City mall fire raging for more than 20...

At least 37 people, mostly employees of a call center on the fourth floor, remained missing and are feared to have perished in a fire that hit the NCCC Mall in Davao City Saturday morning, with the blaze still raging 12 hours after it started.

U.S. memo weakens guidelines for protecting immigrant children in court

The U.S. Justice Department has issued new guidelines for immigration judges that remove some instructions for how to protect unaccompanied juveniles appearing in their courtrooms.

READ | President Duterte’s Christmas message

President Rodrigo Duterte's Christmas message to the Filipino people, in both English and Filipino.