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KILALANIN: 2 'New Year babies' sa Fabella hospital

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Posted at Jan 01 07:00 PM

Dalawang baby girl ang unang sumalubong sa Bagong Taon sa Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital sa Maynila.  Read more »

Meet 2020's 'New Year babies' at Jose Fabella hospital

Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 01 08:52 AM

The first of the New Year's babies, Ericka Escopete, was born at the Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila a few minutes before midnight. Her 20-year-old mother, Rosel said she did not expect to deliver her second child that day. Read more »

New decade, new baby

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 01 03:07 AM

20 year old Rosel Escopete holds her new-born child “Ericka” at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. Ericka was born at exactly 12 midnight of the new decade. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 31, 2019

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Posted at Jan 01 12:45 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

In case it gets bloody

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 31 10:11 PM

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Tuesday makes a surprise visit to the Jose Reyes Memorial Hospital in Manila to inspect the tools to be used to operate on firecracker victims celebrating the new year.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 30, 2019

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Posted at Dec 31 12:52 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Ika-123 anibersaryo ng pagkamatay ni Jose Rizal ginunita

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Posted at Dec 30 08:39 PM

Ginunita sa iba't ibang lugar sa bansa ang ika-123 anibersaryo ng pagkamatay ni Jose Rizal. Read more »

How Rizal’s life in Europe and friendship with a Czech scholar changed a nation’s fate

Joaquín Carlos Urbiztondo de Jesús
Posted at Dec 30 05:48 PM

Everyone knows how Jose Rizal’s travels in Europe helped mold his ideas for reform in his homeland. But it was an unlikely friendship with one European—an academic who was so engrossed about the Philippines—that cemented these concepts in Rizal’s mind. Read more »

Emulating Rizal

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 30 01:39 PM

A couple dressed as Dr. Jose Rizal and Josephine Bracken attend the 123rd Rizal Day rites at Rizal Park in Manila on Monday. Read more »

Duterte urges Pinoys to 'keep nationalism alive' on Rizal Day

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Updated as of Dec 30 10:45 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte urged Filipinos to "strengthen and protect" their freedom and keep nationalism alive as the country commemorated the 123rd death anniversary of hero Jose Rizal. Read more »

Sison offers to meet Duterte 'in any country' near PH

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Updated as of Dec 30 10:22 AM

Exiled communist leader Jose Maria Sison refused calls by Malacanang for him to come home for the peace negotiations, but emphasized he was "willing to meet the President in any country near the Philippines." Read more »

Farm of Wil Dasovich's mom was destroyed by typhoon Ursula

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Updated as of Dec 29 06:36 PM

In his latest video, vlogger Wil Dasovich paid tribute to the Filipino people's resilience as he shared how typhoon Ursula destroyed houses and crops in San Jose town in Occidental Mindoro. Read more »

What Rizal taught us about the pitfalls of spreading and reading fake news

John Ray Ramos
Updated as of Dec 29 07:30 PM

As a member of the propaganda movement and himself a victim of fabricated narratives, the national hero knows a thing or two about the dangers of spreading and consuming fake news. Three of his writings remind us of the lessons Read more »

Tulong hiling ng mga nasalanta ni 'Ursula' sa Occidental Mindoro

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Posted at Dec 28 08:48 PM

Humihingi na ng tulong sa gobyerno ang mga opisyal ng Occidental Mindoro na matinding napinsala ng Bagyong Ursula.  Read more »

Magnitude-4 quake hits Davao Occidental; no damage expected

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Updated as of Dec 28 09:33 PM

The tectonic tremor struck at 4:38 p.m. Saturday, approximately 175 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos town with a depth of 9 km. Read more »

On Rizal Day, Duterte wants to honor other Filipino heroes

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 27 05:24 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte will skip anew the commemoration rites for the 123rd death anniversary of Jose Rizal as he would rather pay tribute to other Filipino heroes, Malacañang said Friday.   Read more »

After being repaired, PH fishing boat damaged by Chinese ship wrecked again

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Updated as of Dec 27 03:42 PM

It was repaired for 6 months after being hit in the infamous collision that ignited a public outcry against Chinese ships in the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

Police, military hold indignation rallies vs communists

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Posted at Dec 26 11:05 PM

Attempts to revive peace talks between the Philippine government and the communist group are in peril.  Read more »

Effects of 'Ursula' worse than 'Yolanda', local official says

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Posted at Dec 26 10:53 PM

The town of San Jose in Occidental Mindoro has been placed under a state of calamity due to damage caused by Typhoon Ursula. Read more »

Palace dares Joma to return to PH for one-on-one talk

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 26 10:13 PM

MANILA (UPDATE) - President Rodrigo Duterte wants exiled communist leader Jose Maria Sison to return to the Philippines for a one-on-one discussion as the government pushed for the reopening of formal peace negotiations with rebels, Malacañang said Thursday. Read more »