‘Voluntary ECQ’: Ways how Filipinos can heed healthcare workers’ plea, according to Leachon

Health reform advocate Dr. Tony Leachon, the former special adviser to the National Task Force against COVID-19, proposed steps on how individual Filipinos could comply...
Bela Padilla in KojieSan photoshoot

Bela Padilla says plundered P124.5-M can buy over 1.2 million masks amid Bong Revilla’s...

Kapamilya actress Bela Padilla reminded Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. of the amount he was supposed to return to the government after the senator...
Quezon City mural street art COVID-19

Stricter lockdown reimposed in Metro Manila, nearby areas as cases spike

MANILA — The Philippines will reimpose a stricter coronavirus lockdown in and around the capital for two weeks from Tuesday, authorities said on Sunday,...

Sniffles, sneezing and cough? How to tell if it’s a simple allergy rather than...

We’re told to stay home if we feel unwell during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what if your sniffles, sore throat or cough aren’t infectious?...

It’s easy to judge. But some people really can’t wear a mask

Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton said recently there were good reasons why some people can’t wear a mask: A number are legitimately not...

Late application, shifting interpretation: Behind the spike in Philippines’ COVID-19 ‘recoveries’ tally

The Department of Health's sudden new adjustment for the criteria of recovered cases confused many and resulted in an odd data trend of the...
Ayala Museum in the Philippines

Witty joke about historical revisionism on Ayala Museum Twitter removed

The Twitter account of Ayala Museum deleted a witty post about historical revisionism that was shared on July 27, which was also when the...
Duterte's backdrop in SONA 2020

‘Never again’: Edu Manzano comments on production design for Duterte’s 5th SONA

"Never again" was veteran television host Edu Manzano's comment as he noticed the production design of President Rodrigo Duterte's penultimate State of the Nation...
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WATCH: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover liftoff

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover vehicle takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape...
Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch

NASA launches new rover to search for signs of past Martian life

NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion mission to...
Political artwork

Visual art group Guhit Pinas allegedly removed political artwork and people noticed

Guhit Pinas, a long-running visual art organization in the Philippines, allegedly removed an artwork perceived as "too political.” Local artist Reighn Buenaventura with Twitter handle...
Rocket for Mars rover

#CountdownToMars: Filipinos anticipate historic launch of Mars rover for space mission

(Updated Feb. 19, 2021; 2:12 p.m.) Filipinos are set to "fly" to the Red Planet as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch...
Zamboanga Watch Party

Photos of Zamboanga del Sur’s SONA watch party go viral for wrong reasons

Pictures of a watch party by the provincial government of Zamboanga del Sur of President Rodrigo Duterte's fifth State of the Nation Address earned...
Sabah, Sulu Sea, South China Sea

Locsin likened Philippines’ Sabah claim to sovereignty over West Philippine Sea

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. stood by his remark on the Philippines' claim over Sabah which he even compared to the country’s territorial...
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Soy sauce seller explains marketing choices, which others read as promoting domestic violence

Owners of a local startup business released a clarification about their social media post that was perceived to promote domestic violence and sexism by...