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Quake leaves devastation in Kidapawan village

ABS-CBN News
Nov 01 11:35 PM

The latest quake to hit the southern Philippines compounded the damage already caused by the earlier tremors. Read more »

Economist: Many 'Build, Build Build' projects just a wish list

ABS-CBN News
Nov 01 11:14 PM

Economists doubt that the Philippine government will be able to spend enough on infrastructure to boost growth above six percent before the end of 2019, a gloomy outlook ahead of the 3rd quarter GDP report that is due out next week. Read more »

Philippines, Magsaysay Awards Foundation honor Ogata

Kyodo News
Oct 31 11:39 PM

The Philippine government and the Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Thursday hailed Sadako Ogata, a former UN high commissioner for refugees, as they expressed sadness over her recent passing. Read more »

SAPI: A viral horror story

ABS-CBN News
Oct 31 07:16 PM

Dalawang high school students ang sinaniban diumano ng ligaw na kaluluwa habang nagre-retreat sa Baguio. Base sa totoong pangyayaring nag-viral sa social media ang video na ‘to. Read more »

Carpio: De Lima should be released

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Oct 31 04:14 PM

MANILA – Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has added his voice to personalities and organizations calling for the release of detained Sen. Leila de Lima.  Read more »

Fiction: Looking for eternal life in a graveyard in the middle of the night

Yvette Tan
Oct 31 01:01 PM | Updated Oct 31 01:15 PM

Instead of partying at Poblacion, two women—one determined and the other reluctant—ransack a graveyard in the middle of the night in this new fiction by Yvette Tan. Read more »

The best chief justice PH never had? Carpio says 'that's the way it is'

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Oct 31 08:32 AM | Updated Oct 31 08:58 AM

Retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Thursday said he considers as a compliment when people say he was the "best Chief Justice the Philippines never had." Read more »

Most Filipinos frown at trans women in female toilets: survey

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Oct 30 10:34 PM

Majority of Filipinos rejected the idea of allowing transgender women in female toilets, but agreed there should be a law specifically protecting members of the LGBT community, a new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Wednesday showed. Read more »

Facebook takes more heat for enabling political falsehoods

Agence France-Presse
Oct 30 04:44 AM

Facebook came under fresh criticism Tuesday for its hands-off approach to political speech, as a group of employees and US lawmakers called on the social network to fact-check politicians spreading misinformation. Read more »

Revisiting the Dumagats of Kaliwa River

Nico Sepe
Oct 29 07:54 PM | Updated Nov 01 07:13 PM

The Kaliwa river is sacred and central to the life of the Dumagats and Remontados of Quezon.  Read more »

Carpio may babala sa South China Sea code of conduct

ABS-CBN News
Oct 29 12:26 AM

Nagbabala si retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio na posible pa ring gamitin ng China ang binubuong ASEAN Code of Conduct para palabasing legal ang kanilang pag-angkin ng teritoryo sa West Philippine Sea.  Read more »

Manila Bay as water source? Possible but expensive, water concessionaires say

ABS-CBN News
Oct 28 11:42 PM

As the country's capital grapples with a looming water crisis, stakeholders are now looking at other sources of water supply. Read more »

Digitales: How to discern fake from real information

ABS-CBN News
Oct 28 11:12 PM

When was the last time you checked your mobile device, clicked on a story and readily believed it and even helped spread it?    Read more »

Space: A major legal void

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Oct 27 10:30 AM

The idea of putting tens of thousands more satellites into orbit, as compared with the roughly 2,000 that are currently active around the Earth, highlights the fact that space is a legal twilight zone.   Read more »

Impeachment horror plunges US into early Halloween

Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Oct 26 02:51 AM

The calendar says Halloween is still a week away, but impeachment is delivering the horror show early to Washington. Read more »

PH security adviser: Joint oil exploration deal with China a 'fair' agreement

ABS-CBN News
Oct 26 12:11 AM

Manila's national security adviser is standing by the fairness of the Philippines' proposed exploration deal with China. Read more »

Mabalacat marks 75th anniversary of 1st kamikaze attack

Ronron Calunsod, Kyodo News
Oct 25 09:58 PM

MABALACAT CITY, PAMPANGA - A group of Japanese and Filipinos attended a ceremony Friday this city north of Manila marking the 75th anniversary of the first suicide air attack deployed by Japanese forces against U.S. warships during World War II. Read more »

Two strains of polio are gone, but the end of the disease is still far off

Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times
Oct 24 12:48 PM

In another milestone on the long, expensive and sometimes discouraging road to wiping out polio, global health officials announced Wednesday that two of the three strains of wild polio virus have officially been eliminated. Read more »

Nene Pimentel, one of PH’s earliest advocates of federalism

ABS-CBN News
Oct 24 12:27 AM

Now that he is gone, the late Senate President's supporters vow to continue the veteran lawmaker's advocacy. Read more »

Big payout, bagful of treats for short-term chief justices

Malou Mangahas, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Oct 23 10:57 PM

In recent years, aside from the honorific value of the promotion, there has also been the significant increase in retirement benefits for the upgraded jurist.  Read more »

Shortlisted: The Judicial and Bar Council interviews with the Chief Justice nominees

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and the Court Appointments Watch Network
Oct 23 10:33 PM | Updated Oct 23 10:59 PM

One has been chosen but who is the fairest, fittest of them all? Three associate justices of the Supreme Court were nominated to the chief justice's post. What vision, judicial philosophy, body of jurisprudence, and character do they offer? Read back to know. Read more »

BMPM bares 10 'Digitales' docu contest finalists

Bayan Mo iPatrol Mo
Oct 23 01:37 PM

Bayan Mo iPatrol Mo announced the Top 10 finalists for the 2019 BMPM Digitales, an online documentary contest aimed to combat the proliferation of disinformation online. Read more »

Filipina scientist discovers world's largest caldera on Benham Rise

ABS-CBN News
Oct 21 09:27 PM

A Filipina scientist recently published a research on what could possibly be the largest caldera in the world. Read more »

Nene Pimentel: 'Remember me as a bridge builder'

Gerry Lirio, ABS-CBN News
Oct 20 02:00 PM | Updated Oct 22 02:27 PM

Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr. was one of the three original federalism proponents from Mindanao, long, long before other people cared to know. Read more »

Factors and forces that led to the Marawi debacle

Criselda Yabes, VERA Files
Oct 20 11:09 AM

The battle of Marawi in 2017, in the heart of the Islamic city in Lanao del Sur province, deviated into violent extremism that opened more fears for the future in what was an undertaking by mostly a generation of millennial fighters. Read more »