Topic: photo

A selfie with Catriona cake

A selfie with Catriona cake

Noel Celis, AFP
Posted at Feb 16 11:09 PM

Visitors take selfie photos in front of a cake, shaped in the likeness of Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray from the Philippines, during the 2019 Bakery Fair at the World Trade Centre in Manila on Saturday. Catriona Gray, who won the Miss Universe competition in December, is expected to take part in a homecoming parade this week in the Philippine capital. Read more »

Measles outbreak vaccination response

Measles outbreak vaccination response

Noel Celis, AFP
Posted at Feb 16 11:07 PM

A child reacts during a Philippine Red Cross Measles Outbreak Vaccination Response activity in Baseco compound, a slum area in Manila on Saturday. A growing measles outbreak in the Philippines killed at least 25 people last month, officials said, putting some of the blame on mistrust stoked by a scare over an anti-dengue fever vaccine. Read more »

Cardinal Tagle leads 'Walk for Life'

Cardinal Tagle leads 'Walk for Life'

Eloisa Lopez, Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 11:05 PM

Archbishop of Manila Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle celebrates mass at a solidarity campaign against human rights abuses, in Quezon City on Saturday. Tagle enjoined the Catholic faithful to pray that voters would choose wisely and not vote for those with “greedy hands” in the 2019 May election. Read more »

'Stop the attacks'

'Stop the attacks'

Fernando G. Sepe Jr., ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 11:29 PM

Journalists take videos during the Black Friday protest at Roces Circle in Quezon City on Friday. Read more »

Sediments reach Great Barrier Reef

Sediments reach Great Barrier Reef

Matt Curnock, AFP
Posted at Feb 15 11:21 PM

This handout photo taken by Matt Curnock on February 13, off Townsville. 2019 and released on February 15 shows sediment (bottom) approaching Central Great Barrier Reef from recent unprecedented rain and flooding around Cape Cleveland, off Townsville, Australia. Read more »

Tandang Sora flyover closure

Tandang Sora flyover closure

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 05:15 PM

Motorists drive past the Tandang Sora flyover along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on Friday, about a week before its scheduled closure on February 23 to give way to the construction of the MRT-7. Read more »

Phase 1 of North-South Commuter Railway project breaks ground

Phase 1 of North-South Commuter Railway project breaks ground

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 05:03 PM

The first phase of the North-South Commuter Railway project, which will connect Central Luzon, Metro Manila and Calabarzon, breaks ground in Malolos, Bulacan Friday. The 38-kilometer stretch of the 147-kilometer commuter railway system aims to start operations by 2021.  Read more »

Duterte’s 11 senatorial bets

Duterte’s 11 senatorial bets

Rey Baniquet, Presidential Photo
Posted at Feb 15 05:00 PM

President Duterte raises the hands of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-LABAN) senatorial bets during the party's Proclamation and kick-off rally held in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan on Thursday. Duterte endorsed 11 senatorial bets including 6 non-PDP Laban members completing his preferred candidates list. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, this is not a photo of Mar Roxas drinking from a plate

FACT CHECK: No, this is not a photo of Mar Roxas drinking from a plate

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 14 08:16 PM

A photo of Philippine politician Manuel ‘Mar’ Roxas purportedly drinking water from a plate has been viewed or shared millions of times online since 2015, and has been used by a rival to mock him ahead of 2019 elections . The photo is not genuine; it is a manipulated version of an original in which there is no plate. Read more »

Rappler’s Ressa posts bail

Rappler’s Ressa posts bail

Eloisa Lopez, Reuters
Posted at Feb 14 03:03 PM

Maria Ressa, the CEO of online news platform Rappler, speaks to the media after posting bail at a Manila Regional Trial Court in Manila City on Thursday.  Read more »

V-Day vs violence

V-Day vs violence

Eloisa Lopez, Reuters
Posted at Feb 14 12:38 PM

Filipino students dance to take part in the One Billion Rising global campaign during the Valentine's Day celebration at St Scholastica's College in Manila on Thursday. Read more »

Journalist Ressa's arrest sparks outcry

Journalist Ressa's arrest sparks outcry

Basilio H. Sepe, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 14 02:20 PM

Student activists hold a picket in front of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) where Maria Ressa, head of Philippine online news site Rappler, is being held after her arrest. Read more »

Opposition bets join hands

Opposition bets join hands

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 14 12:10 AM

Senatorial candidates running under Otso Diretso join hands during the team’s campaign launch held at the Quezon Plaza, in Naga City, Wednesday. The opposition coalition highlighted the need for check and balance in the government to ensure a healthy democracy. Read more »

Love selfie

Love selfie

Gigie Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 14 12:08 AM

A couple takes a selfie at the “Hugs from the Heart” art installation at Bonifacio High Street in Taguig on Wednesday, a day before Valentine’s Day. Read more »

Journalist Maria Ressa arrested

Journalist Maria Ressa arrested

Maria Tan, AFP
Posted at Feb 14 12:05 AM

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa (front left) leaves her office after she was arrested in Manila on Wednesday.  Ressa, who has repeatedly clashed with President Duterte, was arrested in her Manila office on February 13 in what rights advocates called an act of "persecution". Read more »

Red Cross sets up measles care unit

Red Cross sets up measles care unit

Raphael Bosano, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 05:36 PM

A medical staff checks a patient at the Philippine Red Cross measles care unit of the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila on Wednesday.  Read more »

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