“Why does he have huge billboards all over? Is it campaign season already?” a user on X, formerly Twitter, wrote in a post in January. “I wonder if he’ll vie for the Senate next year,” another X user ...

A fourth Villar is running for the Senate. Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar has thrown her hat into the ring after two terms as district representative in the city that her family has ruled for decades.

Customers of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) should expect another bump in their electricity bills this month, the latest in price increases that the utility firm announced this year. A household ...

STA. CLARA, BATANGAS – Residing in the coastal village of Sta. Clara in Batangas City for three generations, the Mendozas witnessed how a community once lined with aroma and talisay trees had turned ...

Filipinos could only vote in 1907, and only men were allowed to do so. Filipinos in the US were permitted suffrage after World War II in 1946. But the Cordillerans who joined the St. Louis Fair in ...

Just five months ago, thousands of Duterte supporters were trashing the Supreme Court on Facebook, calling it “useless” and demanding it act against the former president’s arrest. Now these same ...

IN THE TWO years since he assumed office and promised to usher in a “golden age of infrastructure”, President Rodrigo R. Duterte has put money where his mouth is. Boasting that, by his term’s end in ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X The rigs at the Malampaya gas ...

Rain showers greeted Renato Ibañez and other Indigenous leaders when they gathered in Manila in mid-September to halt the controversial Kaliwa Dam in dense forests east of Manila. Ibañez lives in ...

The late DENR Secretary Gina Lopez's closure and suspension orders against 28 mines in 2017 were not implemented following a review ordered by Malacañang. A culture of non-implementation of ...

Bicol, home to the majestic Mount Mayon, is among the country’s most disaster-prone regions. It is regularly battered by storms and other calamities that test the resilience of its people year after ...

The town of Marilao in Bulacan province has the biggest number of chicken dressing plants nationwide, slaughtering more than 24 million chickens yearly. The annual operations of chicken dressing ...