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Año to LGUs: Declare Reds persona non grata

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has asked local officials around the country to declare the CPP-NPA as persona non grata.

Duterte admin asked to heed SC order protecting PH reefs

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte and other government officials must enforce the Supreme Court’s writ of kalikasan order directing them to protect and rehabilitate the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Saturday.

Comelec: Daraga too hot for comfort; Duterte raises bounty by P20M

President Duterte has recommended to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to put the town of Daraga in Albay province under its control, after the assassination last week of Ako Bicol Rep. Rodel Batocabe.

PNP files charges vs Garin, dad for beating up Iloilo policeman

The Philippine National Police on Thursday filed criminal and administrative charges in the Office of the Ombudsman’s Iloilo field office against Iloilo Rep. Oscar Garin Jr. and his father, Guimbal Mayor Oscar Garin Sr., and two unidentified bodyguards for beating up a police officer.

Duterte order to deploy troops stumps Lacson

Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday said Memorandum Order No. 32 (MO 32) was baffling, as President Duterte could deploy more troops to the provinces just by giving orders to the military.

Belen is the no-brainer top selection, and former National U star can certainly improve Capital1’s image

Bella Belen is with the Alas Pilipinas squad that the Brazilian Jorge Edson Souza de Brito is coaching in Vietnam for the AVC Women’s Volleyball Nations Cup. They are the central figures that will be in absentia when the second PVL Draft is held on Sunday, with De Brito, aside from his coaching genius, getting […]

St. Benilde, Letran, open NCAA title playoffs

Letran has unfinished business it is dying to take care of as it enters yet another title series in the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament against a team that ruined its championship dreams the past two years. “If we want to change the story, we have to change the culture,” Letran coach Oliver Almadro said on […]

Marcial to live dream in Pacquiao undercard

Eumir Marcial is about to tick another item off his bucket list. Confined as a fan in past Manny Pacquiao fights, Marcial will step into the ring in exactly the same atmosphere where his idol springs out of retirement as he fights in the undercard of the eight-division champion’s comeback against Mario Barrios on July […]

With surprising run, Road Warriors could end up topping eliminations

Friday night’s game between NLEX and Magnolia ended with the winning team feeling a sense of excitement and even disbelief over the rare achievement of gaining a twice-to-beat advantage in the PBA Philippine Cup playoffs. And coach Jong Uichico summed up those feelings when he suddenly became speechless in the middle of the postgame press […]

Filipino ice hockey crew blasts Iranians to be new queens of Asia

They say revenge is best served cold. The Philippine women’s ice hockey team handed one of that kind to Iran on Friday night. The Nationals regained their bearings just in time to crush Iran, 4-2, and complete an unbeaten run in capturing the 2025 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s Asia Cup at Al Hili Ice […]

How my lola mothered me (and the entire household) through food

“Kumain ka na,” my grandmother would tell me day after day, as I arrived from school and sauntered into the dining room.  Some days, it was a question; other times it was firm insistence. Coming home to merienda was a ritual I eagerly looked forward to every time I came home—whether it was the pimiento […]

On biological clocks and calendars: Going against the grain of time

I’m nearly 30, and people have opined over my so-called biological clock, urging me to make haste as it was ticking quickly

Would it be fair for Dennis Padilla to attend Julia Barretto’s wedding uninvited?

Advanced mag-isip? Julia Barretto and Gerald Anderson have stirred engagement rumors after a sweet birthday post in March that they’ve since denied.  But Anderson has been teasing that he’s planning on doing it and this seemed to have surfaced insecurities in Barretto’s estranged father Dennis Padilla who’s already insisting on his attendance to the future […]

‘The Idol’ begs us to pity an abuser in gaslighting finale

Over the course of its run, the general consensus for the five-episode nonprestige HBO series “The Idol” seems to be that it already overstayed its welcome. However, the unearned twist in the show’s ending felt like the visual equivalent of premature ejaculation.  We were served a classic 180-degree turn—gaslighting, absolving, and begging us to pity […]

Dear insecure cishet men, Andrea Brillantes doesn’t live to impress you

This just in: Women know how to have fun! Women have hobbies! Women don’t live just to impress insecure men! Is self-described motivational speaker Rendon Labador vying for the spot of local manosphere mouthpiece? This week, he’s received backlash for disparaging, thinly veiled misogynistic comments against Andrea Brillantes who was minding her own business, playing […]

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