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Cavite 7th District Representative Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla responded to an open letter addressed to him by his younger brother, Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla.The congressman shared that he read his brother's letter thoroughly, and felt that he owed him gratitude for sharing ...

Kanye West has announced his intention to run for president of the United States of America, and what better platform to do it than on Twitter?"We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our ...

If you think about it, image-editing software is like a magic wand that the tech world has given us. You can remove a blemish on your profile photo, delete that photobomber from your travel snapshot, and even insert people that weren’t really ...

President Duterte has signed the Anti-Terror Bill into law. The bill has caused controversy in the past weeks because of its provisions.Once the Anti-Terror Law is put into place, enforcers won’t need a warrant to detain suspected terrorists. They can be detained for ...

In June 2019, a Philippine fishing boat was sunk by a Chinese vessel. The latter rammed it, leaving 22 Filipino fishermen struggling for their lives. Luckily, a Vietnamese vessel was nearby and rescued the drowning fishermen. President Duterte called the incident “just a ...

It’s been a rough year for ABS-CBN. It’s facing a pandemic, a struggle for franchise renewal, the shutdown of Channel Two, Sky Direct, and TV Plus, and soon, a number of employees might leave the network to pursue other means of livelihood.Despite the ...

Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan questions presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’s controversial Subic adventure amid general community quarantine: “Sino ang mga tunay na pasaway?”In a Facebook post, Pangilinan listed the number of alleged quarantine violations committed by government officials, particularly: the mañanita of police ...

Following the cease-and-desist order of ABS-CBN’s Sky Direct and TV Plus, the staff of several ABS-CBN programs had an emergency meeting, via Zoom, wherein the network’s management announced its decision to stop all work within select departments.The meeting was held yesterday, July ...

According to The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines currently has the highest percentage of active coronavirus cases among the region’s 10 member nations.The data presented by ASEAN takes a comparative look at each country’s COVID-19 situation, and the results are relative to ...

A baby pangolin and its mother were rescued in Palawan by a corn farmer Antonio Cuino, a decent guy who decided to turn over the rare and endangered mother-and-son duo to authorities. Had it been anyone else, these poor little guys might ...

Many ABS-CBN stars were disappointed by the recent cease and desist orders (CDO) issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to ABS-CBN Corporation and Sky Cable Corporation on June 30.One demands for the closure of Sky Cable Direct, while the other demands ...

The National Telecommunications Commission has just issued a cease and desist order (CDO) to Sky Cable Corporation, the telecommunications subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Sky Cable is now being ordered to stop its direct broadcast satellite service (DBS).This is just one of NTC's two ...

On June 28, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report tagging the Philippines as the country with the fastest-growing cases of COVID-19 in Western Pacific Asia. The country has outpaced Singapore and China in terms of the number of new cases ...

TV host-actor KC Montero and his wife were among the 121 people, which included foreigners, who were arrested at a high-rise restaurant and bar in Makati City yesterday, June 28.This is in violation of Republic Act 11332 (Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases ...

Photos of a religious festival held on Saturday, June 28, in Sitio Alumnos, Barangay Basak San Nicolas, Cebu City have been circulating online. Despite the ongoing enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the city, wherein mass gatherings are prohibited, residents were seen lining up for a procession—they also ...

In the middle of a pandemic, Paolo Duterte, representative of the First District of Davao City, together with Marinduque Representative Lord Allan Velasco and ACT-CIS Representative Eric Yap filed House Bill (HB) No. 7031 on June 25 seeking to rename the Ninoy ...

The Province of Cebu has turned to the practice of tuob as a means to contain the spread of COVID-19. The provincial government issued a memo telling their employees to make time twice a day for the traditional method of steam therapy, a.k.a. ...

Bayani Fernando, former traffic czar and MMDA chairman, is a person everybody loved to hate when he was still helming his post. He earned the ire of street vendors, pedestrians, and motorists for simply enforcing the law. He was called to serve as ...

On the second week of June, photos of the Philippine National Police's (PNP) Chinese Help Desks began circulating on social media.Naturally, many Filipinos felt offended by the photos, which seemed to prioritize a specific nationality over themelves, citizens of the Philippines who ...

On June 19, President Duterte signed into law Republic Act 11475, which officially transferred the capital of Rizal from Pasig City to Antipolo City.For over 40 years, Pasig had been the legal capital of the province because of an oversight made in ...