Ople Center seeks probe into the ‘suicide’ of an OFW in Saudi Arabia
A Filipino maid who had been working in Saudi Arabia just for two weeks has died in what her employer called a suicide, but her family is not convinced, and a migrant support center has called for an investigation.
RR Pogoy thanks Jayson Castro for career night
Rookie RR Pogoy put up his best game in his young PBA career so far, scoring a career-high 27 points including 13 in the...
Claudia Barretto says she’s not like the other famous Barrettos
Unlike Gretchen, Claudine, Marjorie and Julia, the 17-year-old Claudia wants to be known mainly as a singer.
WANTED APPRECIATION | 1st year of Duterte feels like 3 – spokesman
President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman said the amount of work and the challenges the administration has faced have made the first year of his term feel like three.
Two holdouts prevented Bill Cosby guilty verdict, juror says
The holdouts prevented the comedian from being found guilty on two of three counts in his sexual assault trial.
Lawmaker blasts Duterte’s ‘destroy and compensate’ tack in Marawi
President Rodrigo Duterte is embarking on a “flawed policy of destroy and compensate” in Marawi City, an opposition lawmaker said Thursday.
Widodo reaffirms Indonesian support vs terror in phone call to Duterte
Indonesian President Joko Widodo reaffirmed his country’s commitment to support Philippine efforts to stamp out terrorism and restore peace in Mindanao, Malacañang said Thursday.
Cagayan Valley’s 8th most wanted dies in clash with cops
A man tagged as the eighth most wanted criminal in the Cagayan Valley was killed in what police said was a shootout with officers out to serve him an arrest warrant early Thursday in Barangay Pinili, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija.
BPI glitch saw P46M ‘mistakenly withdrawn’ – bank exec
Around P46 million was “mistakenly withdrawn” from the Bank of the Philippine Islands during a recent technical glitch, an executive of the bank told the House of Representatives Thursday.
Russians targeted 21 U.S. election systems – Homeland Security official
Russian hackers targeted 21 U.S. state election systems in the 2016 presidential race and a small number were breached but there was no evidence any votes were manipulated, a Homeland Security Department official told Congress on Wednesday.
Abused kids find little comfort in Japan’s shelters
Every year, more than 20,000 abused, delinquent, developmentally challenged or otherwise troubled Japanese children needing emergency housing pass through a system of shelters.
Technical problem delays CebuPac flight from Riyadh
Cebu Pacific said Thursday its flight 5J 741 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Manila has been delayed by a technical problem that required the aircraft to undergo “a thorough maintenance inspection.”
Speaker rejects top judges’ appeal, urges them to ‘discipline’ CA justices
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez rejected an appeal from the heads of the country’s top courts that the House of Representatives “reconsider” a show-cause order against three Court of Appeals justices, urging Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and CA Presiding Justice Andres Reyes Jr. to “discipline” them instead.
American wanted back home on child rape charges nabbed in Manila
An American wanted on charges of raping a child in the state of Virginia was arrested by immigration agents on Wednesday.
FACT-CHECK | A congressman says lawmakers are not barred from casinos. Is he right?
Isabela 1st district Representative Rodolfo Albano III has claimed that congressmen are not among the government officials barred from playing in casinos.