MANILA – Senators on Sunday welcomed the appointment of former Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon as the new chief of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), expressing hope that his leadership would bring long-overdue reforms and st...

CALASIAO, Pangasinan — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the Ilocos region has destroyed five marijuana plantation sites spanning 1,600 square meters in Sugpon, Ilocos Sur, during operations on Aug. 30 and 31. In a statement, PDEA said t...

LUCENA CITY—A man who fatally shot two people was killed in an alleged shootout with police in Santa Rosa City, Laguna, on Sunday morning, Aug. 31, authorities said. According to a report from the Laguna police, the suspect, identified only as “Nestor,...

WASHINGTON — The entire population of Gaza would be relocated and the United States would take control of the Palestinian territory under a plan being considered by the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The enclave reduce...

MANILA, Philippines — The Senate’s probe into anomalous flood control projects in the country will proceed despite heavy rains, Senate President Francis Escudero said on Monday. In a text message, Escudero said the upper chamber “will not, as of yet, d...

LUCENA CITY—Volcanic earthquakes and tremors continue to shake Taal Volcano in Batangas province, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported on Monday morning, Sept. 1. In its morning bulletin, Phivolcs said the volcano ...

MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla admitted he was “too late” in announcing the suspension of classes and government work in Metro Manila and 16 provinces on Monday, Sept. 1. “The model prediction, as of 11 p.m. (on Sunday), only h...

MANILA, Philippines – A low pressure area (LPA) and the southwest monsoon or “habagat” will bring rains in most areas, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Monday. The LPA, loca...

BACOLOD CITY — Some 80 residents of La Castellana town in Negros Occidental were evacuated on Sunday after water from a creek filled with hardened lahar in Barangay Biak-na-Bato, near the foot of Kanlaon Volcano, overflowed amid continuous heavy rain. ...

HARLINGEN, Texas — With migrant children waiting on tarmacs to be sent to their native Guatemala, a federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the flights, siding with attorneys for the children who said the government was breaking laws and sending th...

MANILA, Philippines — The expanded number coding scheme is suspended amid inclement weather on Monday, Sept. 1, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced. “Be careful when driving and be sure to be updated with weather report...

CHICAGO, United States — US President Donald Trump’s ultimate aim in sending troops to American cities is to seize control of elections in 2026, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said Sunday, calling such deployments “an invasion.” Trump ...

MANILA, Philippines — Over P20 million worth of cash assistance and relief items for victims of the flood has been raised by the charity boxing match between Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III and acting Davao City Mayor Bast...

MANILA, Philippines — Amid the impact of the recent typhoons and the southwest monsoon (“habagat”), Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday renewed his call for a review of the government’s flood-control projects, saying almost half of almost P2 trillion ...

MANILA, Philippines — If the Senate proceeds with trying Vice President Sara Duterte, it risks being haled to court yet again and violating the rule of law, a law professor and a senator warned on Sunday. “If that happens, the VP will go to the Supreme...

MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives will ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its junking of the articles of impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte, which it said relied more on a news story than the chamber’s journal. The House ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos on Sunday called on the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) to continue being a good partner of government, despite the religious group’s criticism of some of the current administration’s decisions, particularly those concern...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, July 27, 2025, which is the Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, July 27 Daily Gospel, July 25 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to Saint Matthew 13, 31-35. Jesus proposed a ...

MANILA, Philippines — It was certainly not a “Thrilla in Manila”—the famed 1975 boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier—yet thousands of people flocked to the Rizal Memorial Coliseum on Sunday to watch what was billed as a charity bout betwee...

With three years behind him and three more to go, President Marcos is at the critical midpoint of his presidency. Thanks to better optics and messaging, his trust rating is climbing, but so, too, are the public’s expectations, especially when it comes ...

Last Monday, I raised three major issues in the Konektadong Pinoy (KP) bill recently passed by Congress and awaiting presidential action. These are: (1) violation of, and consequential inability of the government to avail of the protection granted by A...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to a ceasefire and start talks on their decades-long border dispute under the mediation of Malaysia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Malaysian Foreign M...

How can we help ease the burden of problems concerning public health? One can imagine the enormity of the responsibility upon the shoulders of people tasked to deliver solutions. Witnessing how several areas have declared a state of calamity from the s...

In the late 1980s, two American researchers conducted what would become one of the most cited experiments in education. A group of Grade 7 and 8 students was told to read a passage about baseball and answer a set of comprehension questions. As expected...

Working students belong to a different breed of animal. They waste no time. They study even if they are already tired from work. They use holidays to catch up with their deliverables and readings. They shoulder the guilt and sadness of being unable to ...

In recent days, there has been a stir among the pharmaceutical and health-care sectors over the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) announcement regarding the sale of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines in sari-sari stores. It is said that the goal i...

MANILA, Philippines — Veteran transport leader George San Mateo died of cardiac arrest on Friday night, according to the group that he headed, the Pagkakakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston). He was 60. “Ka George was known a...

I grew up in Hagonoy, Bulacan, a town where the tides of Manila Bay spill over during the monsoon season, where knee-deep waters are as routine as sunrise, and children learn to wade before they can swim. As a child, I remember looking out the window a...

MANILA, Philippines — Don’t despair if you can’t walk 10,000 steps a day. New research showed that walking 7,000 steps a day — not 10,000 as most people commonly believe — can already dramatically lower the risk of getting a broad range of serious heal...

MANILA, Philippines — As President Marcos delivers his fourth State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday, thousands of protesters will be marching on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City to air their grievances. Called the “People’s Sona,” these demons...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has expressed concern over the ongoing dispute between Thailand and Cambodia and called for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. In a statement late Saturday, President Marcos said the Philippines is ready to hel...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Sunday reported a “sharp rise” in the number of foreign fugitives arrested, with the agency recording 268 arrests from January to June this year, a “fourfold increase” from the 69 arrests made in ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 79-year-old widow and a 24-year-old Indian national died in 2 separate motorcycle accidents in a span of at least 15 minutes in Cebu City in the early morning of July 21. At 4:57 a.m. along Archbishop Reyes Avenue in Cebu Cit...

Strong Group Athletics-Philippines completed a dominant 8-0 sweep of the William Jones Cup with an 87-62 win over the United Arab Emirates on Sunday at the Xinzhuang Gymnasium. The title was already secured heading into the final day, but the Filipinos...

TAGBILARAN CITY, BOHOL— A drinking session turned deadly when a heated altercation between two elderly men in Guindulman town in Bohol ended in a brutal hacking incident. The victim, identified as Angelo Gesalta Omapas, 78, a resident of Purok 2 in Bar...

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III has discouraged protesters from burning effigies of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fourth State of the Nation Address (Sona) next week, claiming that it violates the ...

SEOUL — When Choi Seung-il, 54, and his employees at a local auto repair shop in Gwangju spotted an elderly man trapped in a powerful current on a flooded street, they didn’t hesitate to wade into the torrent to rescue him. According to loc...

Yang Hyun-suk, executive producer of YG Entertainment, was sentenced by the Supreme Court to six months in prison, suspended for one year, for attempting to cover up singer B.I’s drug case. Yang was convicted of coercing former K-pop trainee Han ...