DOLE reminds employers to follow Eid’l Fitr pay rules

"Pay your workers correctly and observe applicable pay rules." This is DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III's reminder to employers as the country celebrates Eid’l Fitr on Monday, June 26

Cosby plans sex assault seminars, accusers’ lawyer cries foul

The comedian plans to conduct a series of free public seminars 'about the judicial system,' said his lawyer.

Tesla moves a step closer to building electric cars in China

Tesla Inc took a step closer toward establishing an electric vehicle manufacturing plant in China with its announcement on Thursday that it is in exploratory talks with the Shanghai municipal government.
Trekking in Barlig

LOST IN FOREST | Sagada mayor: Missing Korean incident is cause for tighter tourism...

BAGUIO CITY - James Pooten, the mayor of Sagada in Mountain Province, one of the major tourist destinations in the Cordilleras, said on Thursday...
Marawi evacuating inset Arlene Brosas

Gabriela’s Brosas wants rape threats by soldiers in Marawi probed

MANILA, Philippines - Partylist lawmakers want reports of women being threatened with rape by the military if they don’t leave Marawi City, which is...
Carlos Zarate

Zarate urges: Not so fast with fake news bill

MANILA, Philippines - Warning that its “very broad scope may infringe on the people’s constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of expression,” Bayan Muna partylist Representative Carlos Zarate...
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.