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Randy David dedicates Fukuoka Grand Prize to 'peace-loving Filipinos', late wife

Jeff Canoy, ABS-CBN News
Sep 11 06:01 AM

FUKUOKA, Japan – It was a proud moment for the Philippines but a bittersweet one for the man of the hour.    Read more »

What is dengue, and why is it so widespread this year?

Jenny Vaughan, Agence France-Presse
Sep 10 11:40 PM

Outbreaks have ravaged Southeast Asia this year, infecting hundreds of thousands, killing hundreds, and crippling health care systems as governments struggle to contain the untreatable virus. Read more »

Hog raisers raise concerns amid African swine fever scare

April Rafales, ABS-CBN News
Sep 10 06:18 PM | Updated Sep 10 07:35 PM

MANILA - The Philippine hog industry is currently valued at P268 billion, with a 12-million hog population. The Department of Agriculture said it is one of the biggest contributors to the country's agri-economy, listing year-on-year growth of up the 3 percent, according to the Philippine Statistics Office. Read more »

Why the Philippines needs prison reform

ABS-CBN News
Sep 09 10:21 PM

Gang Badoy, an educator who was a virtual insider when she taught inmates at the national penitentiary talks about the corruption within and why the system can't seem to function without it. Read more »

Shoot them? Hang them? Pacquiao hankers for death penalty return

Neil Jerome Morales and Martin Petty, Reuters
Sep 09 10:20 PM

MANILA - If he gets his way, Filipino senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao would have drug criminals executed by firing squad. Read more »

Na-scam ka na ba?

ABS-CBN News
Sep 09 03:43 PM

Paano mo malalaman na scam ang papasukin mong "investment"? Narito ang simpleng paliwanag. Read more »

The turnaround of Jude Sabio: Once trusted ally now open to testify vs Trillanes

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Sep 07 02:53 PM | Updated Sep 07 03:55 PM

MANILA – The lawyer who filed a communication with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Rodrigo Duterte and his war on drugs is open to testifying against former senator Antonio Trillanes IV in the sedition complaint against opposition figures pending before the Department of Justice.   Read more »

Duterte: Less fighting in Mindanao because of Bangsamoro Organic Law

ABS-CBN News
Sep 07 01:45 AM

MANILA—President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday there is less fighting in central Mindanao following the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL). Read more »

PH still polio-free but at high risk due to low vaccination

Ana Maria Reyes, ABS-CBN Investigative & Research Group
Sep 06 05:03 PM | Updated Sep 09 07:26 PM

A Department of Health official assured the public that the country is still "polio-free," even as she warns that the country is at high risk of poliovirus transmission because of the “very low” vaccine coverage and poor sanitary practices and conditions. Read more »

SLIDESHOW: Up close with Our Mother of Perpetual Help

Text and photos by Vincent Go, ABS-CBN News
Sep 06 01:30 PM | Updated Sep 06 08:06 PM

After 27 years, the Our Mother of Perpetual Help icon in Baclaran Church was taken down for the third time. Read more »

MILF decommissioning set, but problems seen

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Sep 05 09:20 PM | Updated Sep 07 09:38 AM

Thousands of weapons used in the decades-long Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines will be decommissioned beginning Saturday, a crucial commitment by former rebels under a peace deal that gave them a new autonomous region in Mindanao. Read more »

1 in 3 young people have been victims of cyberbullying: UNICEF

ABS-CBN News
Sep 04 10:42 PM

MANILA - One third of young people in 30 countries said they have been a victim of online bullying, a new poll released Wednesday by UNICEF showed.   Read more »

Sotto: A man will never be a woman

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Sep 04 10:05 PM

MANILA - Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said a bill seeking to protect individuals from gender-based discrimination has a bleak future in the upper chamber. Read more »

Hong Kong neighborhoods echo with late night cries for freedom

Felix Tam and Marius Zaharia, Reuters
Sep 02 09:35 PM

Over the past week, residents were seen out on their balconies or opening their windows to shout "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times", "Ga Yao!" - a Cantonese expression of encouragement often translated as "Add oil" - or simply vent expletives towards police and the government. Read more »

Ocean treaty needed to tackle 'deep trouble', says UN envoy

Adela Suliman, Reuters
Aug 31 04:58 PM

The world's seas are increasingly threatened by global warming, acidification and pollution, making it crucial to agree on a global treaty to protect them, the UN oceans envoy said. Read more »

Pa-iwi system spreads

Robert JA Basilio Jr., Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Aug 31 02:34 AM

Three years ago, Maida de los Santos (not her real name) got the shock of her life. Read more »

Cloak and dagger: Duterte's record-high 2020 intel budget

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Aug 30 05:58 PM | Updated Aug 30 11:57 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte is asking Congress to authorize P8.28 billion of the government’s proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 on surveillance alone—the highest of his term. Read more »

Bandila Xtra: Ahedres ng kasaysayan

ABS-CBN News
Aug 30 12:06 AM

May isang eskultor na isinabuhay ang alaala ni Dr. Jose Rizal, kaniyang mga nilikhang karakter at iba pang mga bayani bilang piyesa ng chess. Read more »

SIDEBAR: All the Speaker's men and women

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Aug 29 03:38 PM | Updated Aug 29 06:52 PM

Around 4 weeks into the First Regular Session of the 18th Congress, the House of Representatives elected its 22nd Deputy Speaker—the most in the history of the chamber. Read more »

Some perks of House majority congressmen

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Aug 29 03:26 PM | Updated Aug 29 04:02 PM

A study by the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group of a COA report shows some of the perks of congressmen allied with the majority.  Read more »

'Not just basketball': Circumcisions, pageants at Philippine courts

Mikhail Flores, Agence France-Presse
Aug 29 12:35 PM

MANILA - Indoor courts are central to life in tens of thousands of towns and cities across basketball-mad Philippines, hosting everything from funerals and beauty pageants to "circumcision season". Read more »

Pambansang Wika: Filipino, Pilipino, o baka naman Tagalog?

ABS-CBN News
Aug 28 12:31 PM

Paano ba naging F ang P sa Filipino language? E ano naman ang kaibahan nito sa Tagalog? Panoorin sa video na ito. Read more »

Why are the Amazon fires sparking a crisis for Brazil - and the world?

Jake Spring, Reuters
Aug 26 09:06 AM | Updated Aug 26 06:31 PM

A record number of fires ravaging the Amazon has drawn international outrage because of the rainforest's importance to the global environment and prompted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to dispatch the military to assist in firefighting.   Read more »

Carmen Diokno: Remembering an unsung heroine

Gerry Lirio, ABS-CBN News
Aug 26 06:07 AM

Diokno felt sorry for the burden Carmen had to bear, for raising the family by her lonesome, and for paying the price of being the wife of a Marcos critic. Read more »

Amazon fires: How celebrities are spreading misinformation

Agence France-Presse
Aug 25 06:17 AM

Many high-profile figures seeking to denounce the fires have either shared photographs of the region that are years old or images taken in other parts of the world. Read more »