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US detained 144,000 migrants in May, up 32% since April

Agence France-Presse
Jun 06 03:34 AM

US authorities detained or blocked more than 144,000 migrants at the border with Mexico in May, up 32 percent since April as Central Americans flock to the United States seeking asylum, official figures showed Wednesday.   Read more »

In numbers: The conditional cash transfer program

ABS-CBN News
Jun 06 12:29 AM

The Philippines' conditional cash transfer program is now officially a law.  Read more »

PH ahead in involving women in peacekeeping missions: UN official

Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News
Jun 05 07:54 PM

The Philippines is ahead of other countries in terms of involving women in peacekeeping missions, according to an official of the UN agency that monitors ceasefires and oversees armistice agreements.    Read more »

SWS: Internet use high among young, educated Pinoys

ABS-CBN News
Jun 05 03:20 AM

MANILA - Young and educated Filipinos spend the most time on the Internet, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll revealed Tuesday, as the number of online users in the Philippines has grown over the years.   Read more »

'Filipino subjects in college are more than just language and literature'

ABS-CBN News
Jun 04 11:57 PM | Updated Jun 05 12:21 AM

MANILA - A professor from the Filipino Department of the University of the Philippines Diliman said Filipino subjects in college teach students more than just grammar and literature.   Read more »

IN PHOTOS: First day of school at the quake-hit Nabuclod Integrated School

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Jun 04 01:53 AM | Updated Jun 07 01:17 PM

Girlie Bacani waited for her young students to arrive and enroll in her class on the first day of this school year at the Nabuclod Integrated School in Floridablanca, Pampanga. She teaches kindergarten at the school. Read more »

CJ Bersamin: 'Legal education might have gone down'

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Jun 03 11:39 PM

MANILA – No less than Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin on Monday acknowledged the “dismal” performance of law graduates who took the Bar examinations in recent years, as he announced the holding of a national legal education summit on July 31 to August 1 this year. Read more »

SLIDESHOW: First day of classes

ABS-CBN News
Jun 03 10:42 PM

Some 27 million students in elementary and high school trooped to their respective schools Monday, June 3, as the Department of Education welcomed the start of school year 2019-2020.  Read more »

One word to demonstrate we need Filipino in college: Pangingialam

Arlene Burgos, ABS-CBN News
Jun 02 07:12 PM | Updated Jun 02 08:15 PM

How could the exclusion of Filipino from the college core courses affect the evolution of our national language? Read more »

Gov't urged to uphold education rights of special needs children

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
Jun 01 06:28 PM | Updated Jun 01 07:05 PM

MANILA – Since January, Alice Villegas, 41, has been religiously bringing Mathis, her 2-year-old child with down syndrome, at a therapy center in Quezon City to provide him early intervention. Read more »

Farming advocates dig deep in effort to save QC land from commercial conversion

Patrick Quintos
Jun 01 04:29 PM | Updated Jun 01 08:57 PM

One of the last few green breathing spaces in Metro Manila, located in UP Diliman, is under threat from land conversion. Read more »

Facts First: Cardema's back door to Congress

ABS-CBN News
May 31 01:43 PM | Updated May 31 01:45 PM

In this edition of Facts First, Christian Esguerra tells us about the 33-year-old's backdoor to Congress. Read more »

Prices of School Supplies: 2018 vs 2019

ABS-CBN News
May 31 12:00 PM

It's back to school next week for many students, but their parents or guardians have been feeling the pinch days or weeks before. Read more »

Presyo ng mga Gamit Pang-eskuwela: 2018 vs 2019

By Kia Obang, ABS-CBN Investigative & Research Group, Graphics by Jayvery Lorenzana, ABS-CBN News
May 30 10:26 AM | Updated May 30 01:01 PM

Pasukan na naman sa susunod na linggo. Siguradong namimili na ng mga gamit pang-eskuwela ang mga magulang.    Read more »

Public health centers incapable of fulfilling Universal Health Care promise: DOH official

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
May 29 05:32 PM

Public health centers in the country are still incapable of fulfilling the promised benefits of the Universal Health Care program, a Health official said Wednesday, 3 months after President Rodrigo Duterte signed it into law. Read more »

Children ‘left behind’ in PH economic growth: aid agency

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
May 29 04:03 PM

The situation of children in the Philippines has slightly improved, but “some” are still missing out on childhood, based on the latest report of London-based child aid agency Save The Children. Read more »

Lingkod Kapamilya joint program finds better, safer application for used cooking oil

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
May 29 06:27 AM

Through the Bantay Langis program, treated cooking oil can be converted into products that will benefit vulnerable communities, both directly and indirectly. Read more »

After the quake: Nabuclod’s Aeta school copes with the damage

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
May 28 09:17 PM

With just days before the opening of the school year, many students of Nabuclod Integrated School in Pampanga will have classes between buildings with cracked ceilings and walls that shake as vehicles pass by.  Read more »

Unenrolled children in PH decreasing: report

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
May 28 07:05 PM

Come next school year, more than 1.3 million children in the Philippines will remain out of school, according to the latest report of London-based child aid agency Save The Children. Read more »

World's rivers loaded with antibiotics waste: study

Agence France-Presse
May 27 11:18 PM

Rivers worldwide are polluted with antibiotics that exceed environmental safety thresholds by up to 300 times, according to research unveiled at a conference Monday. Read more »

ANALYSIS: Imee's win to boost efforts to restore Marcos name in history

U.P. Third World Studies Center/VERA Files
May 26 10:32 PM | Updated May 26 10:38 PM

Imee Marcos's 2019 campaign explicitly called for a Marcos Restoration: Vote for her, and she would revive the programs of the deposed dictatorship.  Read more »

Fake Facebook accounts: the never-ending battle against bots

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
May 25 04:30 AM

The staggering figure of more than three billion fake accounts blocked by Facebook over a six-month period highlights the challenges faced by social networks in curbing automated accounts, or bots, and other nefarious efforts to manipulate the platforms. Read more »

PDP-Laban to occupy a third of House district seats

Dasha Marice Uy, ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group
May 24 06:41 PM | Updated Jun 14 07:34 PM

Administration party members will occupy more than a third of district representative seats at the House of Representatives when the 18th Congress opens in July, putting “controversial bills” in danger of being “railroaded,” a law professor said. Read more »

2 years after: Thousands of families have yet to return home to Marawi

ABS-CBN News
May 24 12:12 AM

Marawi is still uninhabitable, two years after militants laid siege to the southern Philippine city. Read more »

'Excessive water extraction may sink PH coastal communities'

ABS-CBN News
May 24 12:04 AM

It seems a supply shortage will not be the only water problem for Metro Manila and communities nearby. Read more »