Cebuanos rule National Milo Marathon NCR leg

MANILA: Cebuanos Florendo Lapiz and Lizane Abella of Spectrum Runners Club ruled the 42-kilometer category of the National Milo Marathon at Mall of Asia grounds in Pasay City on Sunday.

Lapiz and Abella earned PHP50,000 in cash each and slots to the …

PNP suspends tattoo removal policy

MANILA: The Philippine National Police (PNP) has deferred the implementation of the policy regulating tattoos among its officers and applicants.

PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said chief Gen. Rommel Francsico Marbil ordered the Directorate for Pe…

PCO campus caravan goes to University of Makati

MANILA: As the government continues its crusade against fake news and disinformation, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) is bringing its CommUNITY Campus Caravan to the University of Makati.

The two-day caravan, which is under the Media and…

Magnitude 6.5 quake hits West Java; no tsunami threat

BANDUNG: Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that an earthquake with magnitude 6.5 rocked Garut District, West Java, Saturday night, but no tsunami warning was issued.

“The modeling results show that this earthquake does not ha…

Zambales reaches ‘extreme danger’ heat index of 53°C

MANILA: Zambales province recorded the highest heat index so far this year at 53 degrees Celsius, classified as “extreme danger,” on Sunday.

The previous four days, it registered either 42 or 43 from the Iba station of state weather bureau Philippine…

NCRPO ready for 3-day transport strike; DepEd suspends F2F classes

MANILA: The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) will deploy all its available vehicles to assist commuters who will be affected by a three-day transport strike as the consolidation of jeepney franchise ends April 30.

In a message to reporte…

BTA chief: News should not be treated as commodity but as human right

SOFIA: Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Director General Kiril Valchev said news should not be treated as a commodity but as a human right.

He was speaking during the second day of science readings hosted by Sofia University’s Faculty of Law and dedicated…