MANILA: As Catholic devotees around the world mark the start of Holy Week this Palm Sunday, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. enjoined Filipinos to reflect and not to lose sight of the true essence of the occasion by spreading kindness and selflessnes…

MANILA: An employee of the Quezon City government was arrested for extortion during an entrapment led by Criminal Investigation and Detection Group agents on Saturday night.

The male 56-year-old supervisor of the QC Engineering Office was caught rece…

MANILA: For the first time in 15 years, the Philippine government granted permit to the copper mining project of Perth-based Celsius Resources with initial investments of USD253 million, or around PHP14 billion.

In a statement over the weekend, the D…

MANILA: United Nations (UN) member states have pledged to boost financing and institutions to eradicate women’s and girls’ poverty.

This as the Philippine-chaired UN Commission on the Status of Women 68th Session (CSW68) concluded the March 11 to 22 …

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has signed five new laws renaming circumferential and bypass roads, a bridge and a national highway in Central Visayas, Ilocos Region, Northern Mindanao and in the Bicol Region; and creating a new barangay in …

ISTANBUL: Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak on Saturday said that his country has “no slightest connection” with Friday’s terrorist attack in the Russian capital Moscow.

‘Any attempts to connect Ukraine to the terrorist attack are abso…

MANILA: The growing public support for the amendment of the constitution’s restrictive economic provisions adds to the determination of the House of Representatives to make it succeed.

The result of data research firm Tangere’s recent survey showed t…

MANILA: Law enforcers arrested 95,790 drug suspects and seized PHP21 billion worth of illegal drugs in the first year of the government’s centerpiece anti-illegal drugs program Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayawan (BIDA).

The numbers were the result of 75,8…