MANILA, Philippines -- Vice President Leni Robredo has on Wednesday (13 November 2019) met with a delegation from the United States to discuss possible partnerships to help fight the threat of illegal drugs. The US embassy sent a statement via e-mail stating: “Upon request of...

In the past two years, the Duterte administration had trained its sights on Negros island, deploying hundreds if not thousands of its soldiers and cops practically everywhere--from occidental to oriental. One surmises that this probably because Negros is a traditional hotbed of revolutionary movements,...

MANILA, Philippines -- Miss Thailand Sireethorn Leeramwat was crowned Miss International 2019 in Tuesday’s coronation night of the Miss International beauty pageant. The Philippine's bet in 2019 Binibining Pilipinas International winner Bea Patricia "Patch" Magtanong managed to barge into the Top 8 of the pageant...

Combined units of Regional Drug Enforcement and District Drug Enforcement operatives set in motion a buy-bust operation leading to the arrest Tuesday night (12 November 2019) of four drug trafficking suspects in Llannie Reyes, Christian Jhay Rosal, Timothy Zarous and Abdul Rahman Alimad. The...

For the first time in American history, an American president will see himself not as the boss who fires erring applicants but as the one at the very center of a political maelstrom. Impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump are underway, beginning Wednesday. Trump has...

MANILA, Philippines -- According to the state weather bureau PAGASA, Ramon has intensified into a tropical storm on Wednesday morning, threatening to bring occasional heavy rains over large swaths of areas in Luzon and Visayas. The country's 18th storm this year was spotted 385 kilometers...

"Planting rice is never fun, bent from morn 'til the set of sun" so goes an old Filipino planting song that Filipinos may have actually lived up to, to this very day, in which the Philippines already outshone all comers in rice importations including...

Recent violent clashes in Hongkong reminds one of the scenes that defined the 1971 Diliman Commune in Philippine History

MANILA, Philippines -- Disgraced Catholic Cardinal George Pell was given a final avenue to appeal against his convictions for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s. Justice Michelle Gordon said in a brief procedural statement that Australia's High Court had given...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Beach Volleyball team is counting on home-court advantage to boost its gold medal bid in the upcoming 30th Southeast Asian Games which the country is playing host from November 30 to December 11, 2019. As the host country, the Philippines is allowed...