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Lack of rules leaves experts puzzled about data ownership after death

Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Feb 14 09:28 AM

LONDON - From photos to personal posts and private messages, social media users leave a long digital trail behind them. But who owns that data when they die? Read more »

Q&A: What you need to know about the measles outbreak in the Philippines

ABS-CBN News
Feb 12 08:52 PM

The World Health Organization released a series of questions and answers about the measles outbreak in the Philippines. Read more »

'Biggest tragedy': American historian looks back at World War 2's impact on Manila

ABS-CBN News
Feb 11 05:48 PM | Updated Feb 11 06:15 PM

The month-long battle to liberate Manila from Japanese forces in 1945 was unlike all other battles that American forces dealt with in the Pacific, an American historian said Monday.  Read more »

From Twitter hate to second date: Trump and Kim in quotes

Agence France-Presse
Feb 07 08:04 AM

Donald Trump's much-trailed announcement of a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this month in Vietnam sets up another box-office summit between the two mercurial leaders who were once bitter verbal enemies. Read more »

How to protect babies from measles? Vaccination, health official says

ABS-CBN News
Feb 07 03:26 AM

MANILA - The only way to prevent measles is through vaccination, a health official said Wednesday, following an alarming rise in suspected cases of the infectious disease in parts of Luzon. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, this is not a photo of Pope Francis meeting Duterte

Agence France-Presse
Feb 06 05:31 PM | Updated Feb 06 05:52 PM

A reverse image search found that the picture is a doctored version of a photo showing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2016. Read more »

Why Vietnam for the second Trump-Kim summit?

Agence France-Presse
Feb 06 01:42 PM | Updated Feb 06 02:56 PM

Here are a few reasons why it was chosen to host the second Trump-Kim summit Read more »

Southern Leyte Split

ABS-CBN News
Feb 06 09:40 AM | Updated Feb 06 10:27 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that splits Southern Leyte into two legislative districts ahead of the May 2019 polls. Read more »

Comelec in talks with Facebook, Google ahead of 2019 elections

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Feb 06 12:24 AM | Updated Feb 14 06:44 PM

MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is in talks with social media giants as it begins monitoring the online campaign expenses of candidates for the midterm polls in May. Read more »

Commuting woes force young professionals to rent co-living spaces

ABS-CBN News
Feb 05 10:55 PM

A property consultancy firm predicted a boom in the demand for co-living spaces.  Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, this is not a photo of Duterte urging voters to reject opposition candidate

Agence France-Presse
Feb 05 05:36 PM

A reverse image search found the picture had been doctored from a 2016 photograph showing Duterte holding a chart about a narcotics network.   Read more »

'Pag-aalinlangan sa pagpapabakuna, banta sa kalusugan'

ABS-CBN News
Feb 05 12:29 AM

Hinimok ng DOH ang mga magulang na pabakuhan ang kanilang mga anak para matiyak ang kanilang kaligtasan. Read more »

INFOGRAPHIC: Party-list nominees who belong to political families

ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group; infographic by Pamela Ramos, ABS-CBN News
Feb 04 08:50 PM | Updated Feb 08 04:02 PM

Kingpins of provincial and congressional districts are now adopting this long-held maxim in an attempt to expand their control by way of the the party-list system, fielding relatives as nominees in the May 13 elections. Read more »

Filipino Muslim scholar sees bright future for new autonomous region

Ronron Calunsod, Kyodo News
Feb 04 04:52 PM

Nearly three decades since he defended his doctoral dissertation about a non-violent, non-secessionist formula in addressing the armed struggle of minority Muslims in the southern Philippines, academic Macapado Muslim was overjoyed when the government in July last year passed a law creating an Islamic autonomous region there. Read more »

Obesity-linked cancers on the rise in young adults

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Feb 04 02:24 PM

With few exceptions, cancer has been seen as a disease of aging. Read more »

Lamps, not guns: Soldiers bring light to remote Maguindanao village

ABS-CBN News
Feb 04 01:14 AM

A company of Philippine Army soldiers "attacked" a remote village in southern Liguasan Marsh to save them from total darkness. Read more »

Eruption, lahar, and resilience: Mt. Pinatubo 28 years after

Johnna Villaviray Giolagon, VERA Files
Feb 03 05:57 PM

Come February 10, when the townsfolk of Bacolor go to the San Guillermo Parish Church for their fiesta celebration, they will enter the worship place through the upper windows, as what they have been doing the past 28 years since Mt. Pinatubo erupted and altered their lives in ways they never imagined. Read more »

PH drops in 'economic freedom' ranking due to corruption, tax burden: study

ABS-CBN News
Feb 03 04:15 PM

The Philippines dropped 9 notches in the world's Economic Freedom ranking this year, settling at the 70th spot, due to issues in government integrity and taxes, among others, a recent study showed. Read more »

OPINION: Position Paper of the UP School of Economics Alumni on bills lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility

ABS-CBN News
Feb 01 09:22 PM

The evidence and the science, together with the application of law and economics that we have learned from our profession and discipline, tell us that the bills’ controversial measures will result in worse outcomes for our children and our society. -- UP School of Economics Alumni signatories Read more »

Need for speed: Carts on rails help Manila's commuters dodge gridlock

Ronn Bautista, Reuters
Jan 31 10:30 PM

MANILA - Thousands of commuters flock to Manila's railway tracks every day, but rather than boarding the trains, they climb on to wooden carts pushed along the tracks, to avoid the Philippine capital's infamous traffic gridlock. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, these bishops do not pray in front of statue of Corazon Aquino

Agence France-Presse
Jan 31 08:41 PM

An image that has been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook is false, as it fabricates the scene by combining parts of at least three unrelated photos. Read more »

Filipinos still world's top social media user - study

ABS-CBN News
Jan 31 07:29 PM

The "Digital 2019: Global Digital Overview" showed Filipinos spend an average of 10 hours, 2 minutes on the internet via any device. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, India did not declare a holiday in honor of Duterte's visit

Agence France-Presse
Jan 31 07:12 PM

A post which has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook claims that India declared a holiday in honor of a visit from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more »

Francis in Arabia, the Muslim-friendly pope

Catherine Marciano, Agence France-Presse
Jan 31 03:57 PM

Pope Francis said he was looking to write a new page in relations between religions with his visit to the United Arab Emirates.   Read more »

Medical marijuana can ease suffering of dying people in pain, lawmaker says

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Jan 31 02:07 AM

MANILA - Making medical marijuana accessible can help alleviate the suffering of dying people in pain, a lawmaker behind the measure said Wednesday. Read more »