Marawi bakwits receive aid

MARAWI CRISIS 1 MONTH IN | How people have sent help, and you can,...

MANILA - The fighting in Marawi has been raging for a month now. Most of the city's 200,000 residents have fled, and many are...

Sixers take Markelle Fultz with top pick of youthful NBA Draft

The Philadelphia 76ers selected University of Washington guard Markelle Fultz with the first overall pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday, launching an infusion...
DOF Usec Karl Chua

There are at least 5 safety nets to buffer the poor amidst tax reform

Under the Duterte administration's priority Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) bill, the excise tax on oil will be raised by P6, gradually...

THE MARAWI CRISIS, 1 MONTH AFTER | War, destruction stirs young evacuee’s dream of...

The eldest of three children of a young single mother who raised them with what she earned selling vegetables in their lakeside village in Marawi, Jamar says their life before May 23 was simple but they were happy.

BIFF leave threats vs Duterte in Cotabato village as archbishop slams desecration of church

BIFF gunmen whose incursion into a village in Pigcawayan, Cotabato left behind threats and curses against President Rodrigo Duterte when they retreated.

THE MARAWI CRISIS, 1 MONTH AFTER | ‘Islam is not a religion of death,’...

MANILA, Philippines – “There are two kinds of Muslims, the Muslim who follows the religion and the Muslim who uses the religion.” This is how...

Grandma to Jake Zyrus: ‘You are still Charice’

'All of you who calls her Jake, I will find you so you could point to me where you buried her!'

Maine Mendoza broadens her horizons beyond AlDub

She's eager to reveal sides of her that not too many of her fans have noticed before.

Motorcycle rider hurls explosive at Malate police outpost

A motorcycle rider hurled what police believe was a pillbox at a daycare center in Malate, Manila early Friday morning, jolting residents awake and damaging parked vehicles but causing no casualties.

Ron Howard enters ‘Star Wars’ after Han Solo movie directors depart

Lucasfilm said filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller had left the project due to creative differences.

Trump says he did not record conversations with former FBI chief Comey

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, after suggesting last month he might have recordings that could damage the former FBI director.

Australia sending 2 surveillance planes to help fight vs extremists

Australia's defense force said on Friday it will send two military surveillance aircraft to assist Philippine soldiers fighting extremists to regain control of Marawi City.
Boniel arrest, Gisela Boniel inset

Bohol court orders provincial board member suspected of wife’s murder moved from Cebu

A trial court judge has ordered the Cebu City police to turn over Bohol provincial board member Niño Rey Boniel to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Talibon, Bohol.

North Korea tests rocket engine – U.S. officials

North Korea has carried out another test of a rocket engine that the United States believes could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.
Duterte Trillanes combo

‘STUBBORN WEED’ | Trillanes expects Duterte to stay on

President Rodrigo Duterte is to mark his first anniversary in office next week. The folk in Malacañang, however, said it felt much longer than that,...