ACT Teachers party-list bats for salary upgrade, other educational reforms in reelection bid

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers-Philippines raised calls for salary upgrade, financial aid and other demands as it seeks reelection to Congress. Representatives France Castro and...

Pandora Papers: Rich and powerful deny wrongdoing after dump of purported secrets

Files linked to more than 35 current, former leaders Kremlin sees no reason to make checks Pakistan opposition demands named ministers quit Jordan...

Marcos Jr confirms run for presidency

MANILA (Updated 4:01 p.m.) — The son and namesake of late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos announced on Tuesday he will run for president in next year's elections,...

Recap: Disbarment complaints vs senatorial aspirant Larry Gadon

Controversial lawyer Lorenzo "Larry" Gadon once again attempted to earn a Senate seat despite facing several disbarment complaints. On Tuesday, Gadon filed his certificate of candidacy...

Duterte withdrew from VP bid ‘partly’ due to recent poll results, says PDP-Laban official

President Rodrigo Duterte changed his plan to pursue the vice presidency "partly" due to a survey that showed most Filipinos questioning its constitutionality, according...

Groups demand Duterte allies comply with probe into pandemic funds

MANILA — A group of 13 high-profile organizations has urged government cooperation in a probe into alleged misuse of pandemic funds in the Philippines, challenging...
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Hours-long Facebook, Messenger, Instagram outage gives birth to memes

Various memes were shared by Filipinos on Twitter after Facebook and its other affiliated social networking services went dark for almost six hours on...

Rundown: ‘Demon Slayer’, ‘My Hero Academia,’ ‘One Piece’ lead anime slate of iQiyi

One of the leading Asian entertainment streaming platforms recently released its strongest anime slate yet. In a bid to expand its range of quality content,...

Facebook ‘accountable to no one,’ whistleblower will say in testimony

WASHINGTON — Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will tell Congress Tuesday that the social media giant faces no oversight, comparing it to tobacco companies denying...

Philippines to investigate 154 police over deadly drugs war

MANILA — An initial investigation by the Philippine government has found 154 police officers could be criminally liable over their conduct in President Rodrigo...
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Past accusations vs Xander Ford surface as he trends for K-pop posts

Past settled rape allegations against social media personality Xander Ford recently resurfaced after he gained traction for posting content related to K-pop boy group...

Facebook, Instagram appear to partly reconnect after nearly six-hour outage

Facebook and Instagram appeared to be partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon (Tuesday morning, Manila time), nearly six hours into an outage...

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by global outage

 Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said on Monday, as hours later it scrambled to...
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Singing presidential hopeful sparks conversations on qualifications for higher office

Concerns on making presidential qualifications more stringent were brought up after a civil engineer filed a Certificate of Candidacy for president on Monday and...

Acclaimed poet-writer Jerry Gracio accepts second seat nom for aspiring labor party-list

Palanca awardee Jerry Gracio announced his resignation from ABS-CBN to be a nominee of an aspiring labor party-list group he helped organized. In a letter...