Children

On milk and brain development: Should Philippines’ agriculture departments be blamed for a child’s...

Empowering the country's agricultural sector and promoting breastfeeding are among the factors that could give children proper nutrition in aid of cognitive development. These were...
Duterte, Bryant

With copy errors and all, Malacañang issues statement on Kobe Bryant’s death

(Updated 7:37 p.m.) Malacañang released a statement on the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, but it has minor grammatical errors and the subject...
Bureau of Immigration

Bureau of Immigration halts visas on arrival for Chinese on virus fears

MANILA — The Philippines stopped issuing visas on arrival to Chinese nationals on Tuesday, in a bid to keep the southeast Asian nation free of a new...
KNPP shirt

Obscene clothing line makes ‘lame’ excuse as it faces online backlash

The owner of an obscene online clothing shop continued to defend his brand's concept amid its perceived objectification of women and promotion of sexual...
Fort Santiago

Intramuros Admin denied viral open defecation incident, but others aren’t convinced

The Intramuros Administration suggested that an incident allegedly captured in a viral photograph showing a foreigner relieving himself at a historical site did not...
Kobe Bryant

Filipino athletes join the world in mourning and honoring NBA legend Kobe Bryant

Several Filipino athletes mourned the death of modern basketball icon Kobe Bryant after he figured in a helicopter crash with his teenage daughter on...
A worker in protective suit looks at a man while he enters the Xizhimen subway station, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing

A collection of false rumors about coronavirus in the Philippines

The Manila Health Department dispelled rumors that a person in the capital has been sick with the deadly novel coronavirus. During the celebration of the...
Man walks on Daang Kastila

A cause for alarm: Video of man walking dangerously near Taal Volcano

A video of an unidentified man attempting to get dangerously close to the active Taal Volcano despite the complete island being declared a “no...
Lakers fans gather near the helicopter crash site that killed retired basketball star Bryant in Calabasas

Reaction to the death of former NBA player Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant, who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, died aged 41 on Sunday in a helicopter crash in California. His 13-year-old...
Bato dela rosa Interaksyon

Individual concern turned national: Loss of Dela Rosa’s visa starts to end major deal...

(Updated 11:54 p.m.) President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to terminate a long-term bilateral agreement as a knee-jerk response to the cancelation of Senator Ronald "Bato"...
Filipina artist Janina Sanico paints an image of Taal volcano

Filipino artist paints images of volcanic devastation using ash

TANAUAN — Ash from a rumbling volcano has inspired an artist and instructor to paint watercolors using the grey powder that had covered the plants...
Bureau of Immigration

Philippine government’s order to deport travelers from Wuhan: Was it too late?

More than a hundred tourists arrived in Aklan from Wuhan province in China, the ground zero for a novel strain of the infectious coronavirus,...
A Soldier's Heart

Representation of Butuan City in ABS-CBN’s fictional ‘A Soldier’s Heart’ irked this lawmaker

ABS-CBN was called out for its perceived misrepresentation again, this time, by a lawmaker over the scene in the pilot episode of its show. Agusan...

Eyebrows raised over use of funds and logistics for Congress session in Batangas

Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano held a plenary session in Batangas despite the imminent hazardous eruption of the Taal Volcano. State seismologists still retains the Alert...
Angkas driver

Potential conflict of interest seen in Koko Pimentel’s barrage against Angkas

Sen. Koko Pimentel’s petition to declare Angkas CEO Angeline Tham a "persona non grata" could present a conflict of interest since he was the...