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SLIDESHOW: The Balangiga bells are home

ABS-CBN News
Dec 16 08:43 PM

Here are some scenes of the historic return of the Balangiga bells. Read more »

Renewable Energy Act marks 10th year

ABS-CBN News
Dec 16 03:16 PM | Updated Dec 17 11:49 AM

Since its enactment, the law has led to a growing number of companies, both homegrown and global, shifting to renewable energy to power their businesses.  Read more »

Oceans of garbage prompt war on plastics

Amélie Bottollier-Depois, Agence France-Presse
Dec 16 01:01 AM

Stories of giant seas of floating waste or a beached whale found in Indonesia with 13 pounds of plastic in its stomach are bringing plastic pollution into the spotlight. Read more »

Filipino journalists need to hold the line together, says Rappler CEO Ressa

Trishia Billones, ABS-CBN News
Dec 14 09:07 PM

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa said the mission of journalism is "more important today than ever." Read more »

House draft charter better than Puno Commission's version: constitutionalist

ABS-CBN News
Dec 14 02:39 PM | Updated Dec 14 02:51 PM

The federal charter passed by the House of Representatives is "better" than the version submitted by a consultative committee "in some instances", one of the framers of the 1986 Constitution said Friday. Read more »

Number of journalists jailed for doing job near record high: report

Joseph Ax, Reuters
Dec 13 03:01 PM | Updated Dec 13 03:23 PM

A near-record number of journalists around the world are behind bars for their work, including 2 Reuters reporters whose imprisonment in Myanmar has drawn international criticism, according to a report released on Thursday. Read more »

'Golden age of transparency': Advocates call for passage of FOI law

ABS-CBN News
Dec 12 03:40 AM | Updated Dec 12 04:11 AM

MANILA - Two years after President Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order mandating full disclosure of government transactions under the executive branch, woes continue to hound the Freedom of Information (FOI) program, advocates said Tuesday. Read more »

The Balangiga bells: From hatred to understanding

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Dec 11 11:16 PM

MANILA - The return of the Balangiga bells signals was "bound to happen," former US Consul General Sonny Busa said. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, this is not a photo of cop convicted in Kian Delos Santos' killing

Agence France-Presse
Dec 11 08:10 PM

A widely shared Facebook post contains a photo it claims shows a Philippine police officer responsible for the controversial drug war killing of a teenage boy standing next to the country’s vice president. The claim is false and the man shown in the post is not a police officer. Read more »

Climate change advocate highlights importance of report on global warming

ABS-CBN News
Dec 09 07:55 PM

A climate change advocate raised concerns on the refusal of several world powers to recognize the findings of a landmark report on the impact of global warming. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, these are not photos of Chinese-funded road built under Build Build Build

Agence France-Presse
Dec 07 06:03 PM

The post claims the road was constructed as part of Duterte’s “Build Build Build” program, which aims to help reduce poverty through infrastructure development. Read more »

Road accident deaths swell to 1.35 million each year: WHO

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Dec 07 01:45 PM

Road accidents kill someone every 24 seconds, with a total of 1.35 million traffic deaths around the world each year, the World Health Organization said Friday, demanding global action.   Read more »

READ: Sandiganbayan decision acquitting Bong Revilla of plunder

ABS-CBN News
Dec 07 12:50 PM | Updated Dec 07 01:03 PM

Former Senator Bong Revilla was cleared of plunder charges due to the prosecution's "failure" to prove that he received millions in kickbacks from alleged ghost projects that were funded using his "pork barrel." Read more »

ARMM youth favor Bangsamoro Organic Law: survey

Patrick Quintos, ABS-CBN News
Dec 06 05:24 PM | Updated Dec 07 01:47 PM

MANILA - Majority of youth voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are in favor of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), a peace advocacy group's survey showed. Read more »

Philippine radio station tunes into indigenous land rights

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Dec 06 07:23 AM | Updated Dec 06 07:27 AM

A community radio station in the Philippines is drawing attention to the struggles of indigenous Lumad people, whose rights to ancestral land and resources are increasingly under threat from industrialization. Read more »

Rising measles cases due to public's eroding confidence in gov't vaccine program

Raphael Bosano, ABS-CBN News
Dec 05 11:36 PM | Updated Dec 06 02:05 AM

The World Health Organization said the Philippines has seen a rise in the number of measles cases by 367 percent from January to November this year compared to 2017.  Read more »

CHR chief: Drug war deaths could be as high as 27,000

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Dec 05 05:12 AM

MANILA - Commission on Human Rights (CHR) chairperson Chito Gascon said Tuesday that their investigation into the thousands of killings carried out by the government's drug war remains a struggle. Read more »

What's wrong with the Philippine party-list system?

ABS-CBN News
Dec 04 09:52 PM

MANILA - The party-list system in the Philippines has been "flawed" from the beginning, a member of an election reform group said Tuesday.   Read more »

Satur went to Lumad school without permission, says governor

ABS-CBN News
Dec 03 01:48 PM | Updated Dec 03 02:16 PM

MANILA - Davao del Norte Governor Anthony Del Rosario said the group of Leftist leader Satur Ocampo was stopped at a checkpoint in Talaingod town because they went to the Salugpongan Lumad school without his consent. Read more »

Grim tidings from science on climate change

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Dec 01 10:37 PM

The 2015 Paris Agreement calls on humanity to block the rise in Earth's temperature at "well below" 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, and 1.5C if possible. Read more »

Bush's single White House term shaped US history for decades

David Lindsey, Reuters
Dec 01 06:08 PM | Updated Dec 01 06:09 PM

He was a symbol of a relatively collegial period in Washington that nevertheless set the stage for the divisive, partisan gridlock that now plagues the US capital. Read more »

Inspiring belief: Paul Desiderio and the UP Fighting Maroons

Jijil Jimenez
Nov 30 05:52 PM | Updated Nov 30 07:38 PM

Whether he is aware of it or not, UP Fighting Maroon Paul Desiderio is giving back to more than just the UP community. This is being UP in the highest sense. Fighting against terrible odds, inspiring hope, believing in oneself, and most of all, sacrifice in giving. And prevailing. Read more »

NCR voters prefer comebackers, reelectionists to new faces—poll

Ivy Jean Vibar, ABS-CBN News
Nov 29 07:35 PM | Updated Nov 29 08:11 PM

If the 2019 polls were to be held this month, reelectionists and comebackers would likely be voted into office by voters in the National Capital Region (NCR) instead of newcomers, a study showed. Read more »

Coco Martin has highest 'endorsement value' among NCR voters—study

Ivy Jean Vibar, ABS-CBN News
Nov 29 04:48 PM | Updated Nov 29 08:09 PM

Candidates who want to gain popularity among voters in the country’s capital might do well to look to 'Ang Probinsyano' star Coco Martin, a survey recently conducted in Metro Manila found. Read more »

Duterte's 'death squad' plan draws alarm

Agence France-Presse
Nov 29 12:22 AM

Rights groups raised fears Wednesday after President Rodrigo Duterte announced plans to create a "death squad" targeting suspected communist rebels, saying it would worsen the "calamity" triggered by his deadly drug war. Read more »