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MANILA – University of Santo Tomas (UST) celebrates 22 consecutive years of being ranked the “Oldest University in Asia” by the Times Higher Education in the latest World University Rankings released Wednesday, while announcing a bold modernization initia…

MANILA – In a historic breakthrough for East Asian defense cooperation, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced Thursday it has successfully delivered a cutting-edge, short-range ballistic tracking system to the Philippines.

QUEZON CITY – In a bold display of ideological peacocking, University of the Philippines (UP) freshman Wilfredo Alarcon, 18, was spotted climbing the steps of Palma Hall in Diliman Campus Wednesday afternoon wearing a slightly distressed Che Guevara T-shi…

CARMEN, Bohol — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has formally rejected the Philippines’ application to designate the Chocolate Hills of Bohol as a World Heritage Site, citing what it described as a “fundamental…

MANDALUYONG, Metro Manila – Declaring 2025 “a banner year for outbound citizens,” the Philippine government announced Thursday it has dramatically exceeded even its most bullish people-export projections, shipping a staggering 131,250 metric tons of Filip…

MANILA – Francis and Rosario Reyes, prominent Couples for Christ members and best known for their luxury home bible study group and aggressive “Campaign Against Loitering” in their New Manila neighborhood, have once again opened their estate this Christmas

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Colony of Spain for more than three hundred years and of America for another fifty, the Philippines has had less than a hundred years to put its house in order on its own.

MANILA – Super typhoon Pepito pounded the Philippines on Saturday while the country is already feeling sore after repeated poundings by five other tropical storms this month.

MANILA – Despite hopeful expectations from Filipino spectators that the Philippines would come out of this match with a vital draw, Kristine’s offensive combination of gale-force winds and torrential rain proved too devastating for the home team, resulting

MAKATI CITY – According to the latest statistics from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Philippines exported a record 129,600 tons of Filipinos in 2023, roughly equivalent to 2,160,000 individuals (at 60kg/individual), generating a total of…

Passing a divorce law in the Philippines is a really bad idea.

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – 78 percent of residents of Panay Island in the provinces of Aklan, Antique, Capiz and Iloilo have Aswang DNA, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of the Philippines in Los Baños entitled “DNA Sequencing and A…

QUEZON CITY – “The name of our national anthem is Bayang Magiliw, not Lupang Hinirang,” declared Senator Tito Sotto (in Filipino) at the joint press conference with Senator Ronald dela Rosa on Monday.

QUEZON CITY – In a major victory for divorce proponents in the Philippines, the influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has agreed to drop its objection to couples divorcing when one of them is already dead, paving the way for passing…

QUEZON CITY – Carlos Yulo, who clinched two gold medals for the Philippines at the Paris Olympics, has offered to end his much publicized rift with his mother by gifting her the lifetime supply of cotton buds awarded to him by Mercury Drug.

MANILA – In a bid to accelerate the adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEV) in the country and reduce waste, the Philippine government introduced a new law on Wednesday that will require car companies to ensure that every BEV sold in the Philippines in

MANILA – As if crushing poverty, rampant crime, environmental disasters and Senator Robin Padilla are not enough, Filipinos risk further divine punishment coming their way by needlessly persecuting the Son of Jehovah, popularly known as Apollo Quiboloy.

VATICAN CITY – Jesus Christ released a statement through the Vatican Wednesday confirming that the Filipino church leader, FBI fugitive, and self-professed “Appointed Son of God” Apollo Quiboloy is in fact his younger sibling, appointed by their father Je…

BEIJING, China – Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yize Qu on Monday accused the Philippine government of enabling Filipino marines to take advantage of free showers provided by Chinese Coast Guard ships in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).

OXFORD, England – Oxford University registrar Gillian Aitken confirmed Thursday that after lying in the university’s vault for forty years, President Bongbong Marcos’ long-lost diploma has finally been found, one week after the Philippine government donat…

DAVAO CITY – Local man Peter Esteban, 46, enthusiastic supporter of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs in which human rights groups say as many as 12,000 Filipinos died, today tweeted his profound sadness at the number of deaths in the ongoing Is…

MANILA – Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation and motivational speaker Larry Gadon shared to Tondo’s destitute the suprisingly simple secret to a richer life: “Just stop being poor.”

MANILA – A recent study conducted by the University of Santo Tomas (UST) School of Behavioral Science researchers determined that the average time you spend in the bathroom before your date starts to think that you took a dump is 6 minutes and 37 seconds.

AKITA CITY, Japan – Biñan, Laguna native and self-confessed weeaboo Rodel Rosario, a 32-year-old factory worker in Japan, have won an old samurai castle located in rural Akita Prefecture in a raffle conducted on January 29, 2024 by the prefectural governm…

PASIG CITY, Metro Manila – In a strange but extremely fortunate stroke of luck, senate minority leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, who called for an audit of the gaming activities of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) after a recent controvers…

MANILA – After months of top-secret negotiations between the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China, Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi announced at the joint press conference Monday that the…

MANILA – President Bongbong Marcos declared at Tuesday’s press conference that drugs have decisively won the Philippines’ War on Drugs, one year after former president Rodrigo Duterte, the architect of the brutal six-year war on illicit substances, left o…

PASAY CITY, Metro Manila – Alex Fillarca, 27, had not believed what he heard from family and friends, but now that she was right in front of him, there was no more denying the truth.

QUEZON CITY – At a joint press conference Monday, Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) executive minister Eduardo Manalo and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) commisioner Romeo Lumagui, Jr. formally announced the implementation of an innovative system through which the…

PASAY CITY, Metro Manila – In a priviledged speech on the Philippine Senate floor Friday, Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa declared that trees are ‘communist sympathizers’ that should be eradicated from the country’s mountains through legislation.

TOKYO, Japan – Las Piñas, Metro Manila native Ronald Dimalanta, 37, set a new world record Tuesday when he managed to unfasten his seatbelt an astounding 0.009 seconds after his All Nippon Airways airplane touched down in Haneda Airport in Tokyo at 19:15…

HAWTHORNE, California – In a stunning development, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk offered 1 billion dollars to the Philippines if it would agree to change its name to ‘Philippenis’.

Our daughter has just had her first menstruation, and there’s no better time for her to experience this age-old tradition for beauty, chastity and hygiene!

TAGUIG CITY, Metro Manila – Modern-day hero and former migrant worker Idelfonso Torres, who passed away last Tuesday at the age of 56, was refused burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes), his son Manuel Torres, 27, revealed at a press co…

MANILA – During his weekly press conference Monday, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla addressed the recent spate of killings of suspected leftist symphatizers and activists by offering this unsolicited advice: ‘Stop being annoying.’

MANILA – During the telephone conference between the two heads of state Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lauded the friendly relations between the two countries and thanked President Bongbong Marcos for the Philippine government’s continued…

PASIG CITY, Metro Manila – The Philippine corporate world was rocked Monday when long-time CEO Ernesto Tanmantiong filed suit at the Pasig Regional Trial Court against his company Jollibee Foods Corporation to demand, among others, health-care benefits, p…

MAKATI CITY, Metro Manila – “About a year ago, I overheard my father telling his drinking buddies he can finally retire when I graduate from college,” says an irate Maricel Pangan, 21, in Filipino.

BEIJING, China – After weeks of silence, Chinese spokesman Yize Qu, at a press conference in Beijing, chided the Philippine media for erroneously reporting that the shower heads aimed by a Chinese ship at a Philippine Coast Guard vessel were water cannons.

QUEZON CITY – Bernard del Mundo, sophomore at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, takes great pride in being accepted into this fraternity whose illustrious fellows helped transform the Philippines into a thriving, people-exporting Third World p…

SEOUL, South Korea – A diplomatic spat is brewing between two erswhile Asian friends over the exclusive use of the name ‘East Sea’ to refer to the body of water east of their respective territories.

HONG KONG, China – Seemingly insurmountable chasms of language, wealth and distance cannot keep true Ilocanos from bonding.

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