TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT | MMDA asks mall operators for ‘late-open late-close’ shopping hours
Anticipating heavy traffic congestion when the government ramps up its infrastructure projects this year, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has asked shopping mall...
Group hits CA’s blocking of Veloso’s testimony vs recruiters, says ruling kept drug lords...
A group of Filipino migrant workers in Hong Kong assailed the ruling of the Court of Appeals disallowing the deposition of convicted drug mule Mary Jane Veloso that could have shed light to a trafficking case filed against her alleged recruiters.
WATCH | Pres’l Spox Roque not sure what Duterte can do about Mary Jane...
On Thursday afternoon, Presidential Spokesman and Adviser on Human Rights Harry Roque told a television interview: "I don't understand what exactly the President can...
NUMB IT FIRST | Switzerland beefs up animal protection rules, bans practice of throwing...
Switzerland has banned the common culinary practice of throwing fresh lobsters into boiling water as part of an overhaul of its animal protection rules.
Aguirre says BI employee tried to help Chinese bizman linked to P6.4-B shabu haul...
An employee of the Bureau of Immigration who went absent without authorized leave tried to help Chinese businessman Richard Tan leave the country after the Department of Justice filed a criminal case against him in relation to the smuggling of P6.4-billion of shabu last year
Claudine Barretto asks fans to give ex Mark Anthony Fernandez a ‘second chance’
The actor is poised for another comeback after his release from jail and acquittal for illegal possession of drugs.
WATCH | ‘WE CAN’T BE ‘DROWNED’ BY THE HOUSE’: Ping to file resolution for...
Senator Panfilo Lacson is set to file a resolution next week for the Senate to form its own separate constituent assembly to vote on the proposal to amend the 1987 Constitution.
YouTube penalizes Logan Paul after suicide video post
YouTube is removing the popular U.S. vlogger from its Google Preferred platform and putting future projects with him on hold.
For saying wage hike ‘not a priority,’ DBM’s Diokno dubbed ‘Teachers’ Enemy #1’
For saying salary increases for public school teachers are “not our priority this time,” Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno was dubbed “Teachers’ Enemy #1.”
Duterte could be better ‘recruiter’ for NPA than Marcos – CPP
At the rate President Rodrigo Duterte is going, he is “bound to outdo the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in becoming the best recruiter for the New People’s Army,” the Communist Party of the Philippines said Thursday, January 11.
U.S. travel warning puts 5 Mexican states at par with war-torn nations
Rampant crime and gang activity in Mexico prompted the U.S. State Department on Wednesday to issue a stringent travel advisory, warning tourists to completely avoid five Mexican states, an advisory level often reserved for nations at war.
U.S. embassy closed Monday
The United States embassy in the Philippines and its affiliated offices will be closed on Monday, January 15, in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an American holiday.
WATCH | Makabayan bloc asks SC to stop ‘unconstitutional’ TRAIN
(UPDATE 2 - 1:35 p.m.) Lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives asked the Supreme Court on Thursday, January 11, to issue a temporary restraining order and eventually stop the implementation of the Tax Reform for Advancement and Inclusion, or TRAIN, law saying its passage violated both the chamber’s rules and the Constitution.
Justice Carpio turns down invitation to testify at Sereno impeachment
Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has declined an invitation by the House committee on justice to testify at the impeachment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno saying he knew nothing of the issues the panel wants to ask him about.
SEX ABUSE FALLOUT | Pope orders takeover of Peruvian Catholic group, faces protests in...
Pope Francis has ordered the takeover of an elite Peruvian Catholic society whose founder is accused of sexually and physically abusing children and former members, even as Chileans protesting the appointment of a bishop accused of protecting an alleged pedophile threaten to cast a shadow over the pontiff’s visit to South America next week.