U.N. envoy complains of state surveillance, access restrictions in Myanmar
Activists and journalists in newly democratic Myanmar continue to be followed and questioned by state surveillance agents, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, at the conclusion of a visit she said was beset by official snooping and access restrictions.
ESCOLTA PARTY | Celebrate The Hub’s re-opening with ‘Make Lab: Group Show’
Mark July 22, 2017 for your day of art, shopping, music, and new brews.
Spy agency was client of Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr.
The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show.
WATCH | Congress OKs extension of martial law in Mindanao
(UPDATE 4 - 4:25 p.m.) The tally in the special joint session of Congress came out 261 - 18 in favor of President Rodrigo Duterte’s request to extend martial law until the year's end, hours before the 60-day effectivity of Proclamation No. 216 was to lapse.
WATCH | Military recommended 5-month martial law extension
MANILA, Philippines - At the joint session of Congress on extending martial law, the military admitted recommending the five-month extension of martial law in...
What’s next in line for Wency Cornejo? A reunion with other voices of the...
Now 50, he has been happily residing in Davao, running a food business, and raising his teenage son with his partner.
Linkin Park U.S. tour canceled after suicide of Chester Bennington
Bennington, 41, died by hanging himself at his southern California home, but left no note.
WATCH | ‘We were wrong’ to vote for Duterte – Manobo datu
Saying the plight of the lumad has not improved and, in fact, worsened with the declaration of martial law in Mindanao, a chieftain of the Manobo tribe in Surigao del Sur admits “we were wrong” to have voted for President Rodrigo Duterte last year.
‘My job is to bully and kill’ enemies of state, says Duterte; ‘let him...
After saying he no longer wants talk to communist rebels following successive attacks on government forces, President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said it was his job “to bully you and to kill you because there is a war going on between us and you.”
Veteran director, actor, and activist Soxie Topacio dies at 65
Farewell to one of Philippine theater's finest artists.
‘No peace without federalism,’ Duterte tells business
President Rodrigo Duterte made yet another pitch for federalism on Friday, telling a business conference that “there will never be peace in Mindanao or even in the Philippines if we do not shift to another structure.”
Tugade, Lopez spar over TNVs at Davao biz meet
The issue of what government should do about Transport Network Vehicle Services, such as Uber and Grab, had Cabinet secretaries debating the matter in front of leading businessmen in Davao City Friday.
Sean Spicer resigns as White House spokesman
Sean Spicer, who has been serving in a dual role for President Donald Trump as press secretary and communications director, abruptly resigned on Friday.
WATCH | No warm welcome for Duterte from some U.S. lawmakers
The apparent positive rapport between President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump notwithstanding, who has invited Duterte to visit his country at some...
WATCH | Actual combat footage of a rescue mission in Marawi
Actual combat video footage obtained by News5 shows a rescue mission undertaken by elements of the Philippine Army Special Forces to extricate two wounded...














