Earthquake jolts Batanes as restive Bulusan volcano calms down
Earthquake jolts Batanes as restive Bulusan volcano calms down

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) noted in its earthquake bulletin issued at 10:37AM a magnitude 5.6 temblor whcih struck the Batanes province on dawn of Monday. The quake agency traced the location at 65 kilometers west of Sabtang town and happened at 2:20 AM. With a depth […]

Salceda wants to separate OCD from NDRRMC
Salceda wants to separate OCD from NDRRMC

LEGAZPI CITY — If he will have his way, outgoing Albay governor Joey Salceda will separate the Office of Civil Defense from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Now that he is the newly elected representative of the second legislative district of Albay, it is exactly what he […]

Andaya, Salceda chairs, co-chairs House committee on appropriations
Andaya, Salceda chairs, co-chairs House committee on appropriations

Outgoing Bicol Regional Development Council chairman Joey Sarte Salceda announced during the last council meeting at the National Economic Development Authority office on Friday he was given the position of senior vice chairman of the committee on appropriations in the 17th Congress while Camarines Sur 1st district Rep. Rolando Andaya […]

Bicol private schools gets nod to hike tuition fees
Bicol private schools gets nod to hike tuition fees

LEGAZPI CITY — The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has approved the requests of 12 out of 22 private colleges and universities in the Bicol Region for increases in tuition fees and other school fees this coming school year while it rejected those of eight others for lack of requirements […]

What to look forward to from newly-elected president of the Philippines
What to look forward to from newly-elected president of the Philippines

With opponents having conceded defeat, the elected, new president of the Philippines (POTP) is Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte. The maverick candidate from Mindanao garnered 15,763,349 votes, Manuel Roxas II with 9,595,188 votes, Grace Poe with 8,857,728 votes, Jejomar Binay with 5,263,232 votes and Miriam Defensor Santiago with 5,263,232 votes. […]

I am a Filipino. I am a writer.  Our tools are vigilance and memory
I am a Filipino. I am a writer. Our tools are vigilance and memory

I am a Filipino. I am a writer. Our tools are vigilance and memory. A growing number of writers and journalists gathered their thoughts together for a united statement. And sharing here is the English only version, although it has a Tagalog translation. A MANIFESTO I am a Filipino writer. […]

Smartmatic says results will be known 24 hours after election
Smartmatic says results will be known 24 hours after election

MANILA — Smartmatic International, the tech firm handling the automated election system of the Commission on Elections for the May 9, 2016 general elections reported that it will deploy some 45,000 technicians in all of the 36,788 voting centers as well as in the canvassing centers. “Everywhere where there will […]

NCRAA dominates harvest of gold medals in Palarong Pambansa 2016
NCRAA dominates harvest of gold medals in Palarong Pambansa 2016

As of end of day of April 13, 2016 here is the current medal standing of eighteen competing regional athletic teams on the on-going Palarong Pambansa being hosted by the province of Albay with competition venues spread about the facilities in towns and Legazpi city. Dominating the harvest of gold […]

Bicol PNP beefs up security during Holy Week, summer vacations
Bicol PNP beefs up security during Holy Week, summer vacations

Security during the Holy Week feastivities and summer season is now in place, according to top Philippine National Police Bicol official on Tuesday. Bicol regional director Police Chief Supt. Augusto M. Marquez Jr. said his directive for this purpose stands effective up to May 31. The summer vacation and holy […]

Money laundering: Deguito, Torres gets RCBC ax for falsification of documents
Money laundering: Deguito, Torres gets RCBC ax for falsification of documents

The two officers of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation in its Makati city Jupiter branch, where the US $81 million stolen from Bangladesh Bank was processed, have been axed from their jobs. In a statement Tuesday, lawyer Maria Cecilia Fernandez-Estavillo, head of RCBC’s legal and regulatory affairs group, said RCBC […]

Ridge of high pressure area brings warm, humid air on Holy Monday
Ridge of high pressure area brings warm, humid air on Holy Monday

For Holy Monday forecast, partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms will prevail over Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Expect to experience warm and humid weather in the next three days in most parts of the country because of the ridge of high pressure area extending […]

Amazing how technology and functionality can make a good living space for 200 SQ ft
Amazing how technology and functionality can make a good living space for 200 SQ ft

Amazing how technology and functionality can make a good living space for 200 SQ ft! After watching the short video presentation, what can you say? It is the combination of best practice, modern technology, great vision for functionality, money well spent and space functionality used to the max roled into […]

Second round of PH presidential debates tonight at UP-Cebu auditorium
Second round of PH presidential debates tonight at UP-Cebu auditorium

Are you watching the second round of the presidential debates? Today, March 20, the candidates will again have their verbal clash with one hour extension as compared to the last. The Visayas round still under the auspices of the Commission on Elections will happen at the auditorium of the University […]

Why it took long for police to arrest Daniel Padilla’s uncle, ex CamNorte guv Roy Padilla
Why it took long for police to arrest Daniel Padilla’s uncle, ex CamNorte guv Roy Padilla

Why it took long for police officers in arresting Daniel Padilla’s uncle, former CamNorte guv Roy Padilla? Arrest warrant was finally served. Camarines Norte Ex-Governor Casimiro “Roy” Padilla Jr. was finally detained over a malversation of public property conviction which was upheld by the Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCOTP). […]

Pope Francis joins social photo sharing site Instagram under “Franciscus”
Pope Francis joins social photo sharing site Instagram under “Franciscus”

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pope Francis (@franciscus) Pope Francis joins social photo sharing site Instagram under “Franciscus.” The Holy Father, Papa Francisco will definitely rock, again, the social media scene. This time, he joins Instagram. The information was first disclosed through the Vatican Dario Viganò […]

Fly Dubai plane crashes in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don with 62 passengers
Fly Dubai plane crashes in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don with 62 passengers

A passenger Fly Dubai Boeing-737-800 en route from Dubai to Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, crashed at the city airport missing the runway amid poor visibility, an emergencies source told RIA Novosti on Saturday. All passengers and crew perished. According to the source, 62 passengers, including four children, and seven crew members were […]

Ruling on issuance of voter receipts on May 9 elections final – SCOTP
Ruling on issuance of voter receipts on May 9 elections final – SCOTP

The Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCOTP) en banc on Thursday affirmed with finality its earlier ruling ordering the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to activate the printing of the voter receipt on the May 9 synchronized automated national elections. The justices voted 12-0. The ruling was made after the conduct […]

Senate hearing on the alleged US $100-million money laundering in PH, second part
Senate hearing on the alleged US $100-million money laundering in PH, second part

This is the scheduled, second part of the Senate of the Philippines’ Blue Ribbon Committee hearing, prying into the alleged recent US $100 million laundering operations in the country. Obviously, laundering or not, it has a negative effect already on the remittance activities of OFWs who have nothing to do […]

Calatagan in Batangas hosts, boasts of largest solar farm facility in Luzon
Calatagan in Batangas hosts, boasts of largest solar farm facility in Luzon

Calatagan in Batangas hosts, boasts of largest solar farm facility in Luzon The province of Batangas now hosts the largest solar farm in Luzon. The sustainable green energy project of Calatagan solar farm is located in a 160-hectare property which was locally developed, financed and constructed in Barangay Paraiso of […]

Money laundering in the Philippines detrimental to OFWs sending remittance
Money laundering in the Philippines detrimental to OFWs sending remittance

During the Senate hearing on the alleged money laundering case involving a Philippine universal bank Tuesday, OFW advocate Susan Ople disclosed that banks in more than 10 countries and territories have ended correspondent banking operations with Philippine-based banks and remittance companies. These foreign banks, include among others, are those in […]

High Court  extends suspension order of plunder trial against former POTP Arroyo
High Court extends suspension order of plunder trial against former POTP Arroyo

The Sandigan Bayan First Division has been stopped, again, from proceeding with its trial on the plunder case against former President of the Philippines (POTP) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, now on her second term as the 2nd district congressional representative of Pampanga. The Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCOTP) has extended […]

SCOTP rules POE qualified to run for president in May 9 polls
SCOTP rules POE qualified to run for president in May 9 polls

The Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCOTP) en banc ruled on Tuesday that Partido Galing at Puso standard bearer Senator Grace Poe-Llamanzares is qualified to run for president in the May 9, 2016 elections. The SC Public Information Office Chief and Spokesman Atty. Theodore O. Te, in a statement, said […]

Opposition cry foul on Korina Sanchez-Roxas’ “Imeldific” DA program participation
Opposition cry foul on Korina Sanchez-Roxas’ “Imeldific” DA program participation

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Korina Sanchez-Roxas (@korina) ABS-CBN news anchor and host Korina Sanchez-Roxas is being referred to as “Imeldific” and a “trapo” after her appearance and participation in distribution of checks and farm equipments to farmers in Mindanao. The broadcaster wife of Liberal Party […]

Malacanang defends President Aquino in campaign for Roxas-Robredo team
Malacanang defends President Aquino in campaign for Roxas-Robredo team

Malacanang was trying to defend the campaign sorty of President Benigno S. Aquino III with Liberal Party’s presidential and vice-presidential candidates. President Benigno S. Aquino III believes campaigning for Daang Matuwid Coalition candidates is his duty to the Filipino people, a Malacanang official said on Sunday. “President Aquino is actively […]

Albay’s Gov. Salceda says his statement was grossly picked up, misinterpreted
Albay’s Gov. Salceda says his statement was grossly picked up, misinterpreted

After the widely publicized news attributed to Albay Gov. Joey Salceda, about the unfinished Bicol International Airport and the Liberal Party candidates, the provincial chief executive clarified on Wednesday that his statement was misinterpreted. He said during the visit of People’s Reform Party senatorial candidate Francis Tolentino, a news correspondent […]

China gains control of Philippines’ Quirino Atoll of Spratly islands
China gains control of Philippines’ Quirino Atoll of Spratly islands

China gains control of Philippines’ Quirino Atoll of Spratly islands as the tension caused by intrusions in the West Philippine Sea continues. The traditional fishing grounds of Filipino fisherman around, and including, Quirino Atoll or Jackson Atoll has been taken over by the Chinese, reports from national papers said. The […]

Hubble Telescope snaps  photo of deep space bubble Wolf-Rayet nebula
Hubble Telescope snaps photo of deep space bubble Wolf-Rayet nebula

Sparkling at the center of this beautiful image is a star located about 30,000 light-years away. The distinctive blue… Posted by NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Friday, February 26, 2016 Located about 30,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (The Keel), the sparkle in the center of […]

Netizens accuse LP illegaly using government vehicle, resources, personnel in campaign for Daang Matuwid team
Netizens accuse LP illegaly using government vehicle, resources, personnel in campaign for Daang Matuwid team

Netizens accuse Liberal Party illegaly using government vehicle, resources, personnel in campaign for Daang Matuwid team Malacanang on Friday said the Philippine Commission on Elections should investigate complaints that the Aquino administarion-supported Liberal Party was using government vehicles in the campaign sorties of Manuel Roxas II. Persistent and sensitive users […]

It took a three-hour chase before police captures “Unicorn” in California
It took a three-hour chase before police captures “Unicorn” in California

Yes Virginia, a “unicorn” exists in California, it took more than three hours before the Calfironia Highway Patrol ended its chase near the city of Fresno. News said that the almost 600 pounder animal was made available in a photo shoot among children in Rancho Maderas when it got loose […]

Rumor mill says Liberal Party to junk Robredo for Escudero to stop a Marcos
Rumor mill says Liberal Party to junk Robredo for Escudero to stop a Marcos

Rumor mill says Liberal Party to junk Robredo for Escudero to stop a Marcos return. This early in the election campaigns of presidential and vice presidential bets, rumors that circulate are routine. While in Zamboanga, standard bearer Mar Roxas had to dismiss rumors of a Liberal Party Plan B to […]

Salceda to junk LP bets because of Bicol International Airport
Salceda to junk LP bets because of Bicol International Airport

Salceda to junk LP bets because of unfinished Bicol International Airport, which may tip the balance of LP’s winning or losing in his province even as Roxas said he is not afraid to lose Albay. On Thursday, Salceda said his province may junk the administration ticket after the failure of […]

Counting machine validates vote in 44 seconds, amaze Comelec officials
Counting machine validates vote in 44 seconds, amaze Comelec officials

Counting machine validates vote in 44 seconds, amaze Comelec officials. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday launched in Laoag City the new vote counting machine (VCM) which can validate votes in 44 seconds. Laoag City Election Officer Atty. Julius Harvey P. Balbas said that the machine is an updated […]

Senators lament the unfinished business of EDSA People Power
Senators lament the unfinished business of EDSA People Power

Was the EDSA People Power’s main purpose only to topple the administration of strongman President Ferdinand Marcos, many considered dictatorial and oppressive? Thirty years after the bloodless uprising, the fight remains an unfinished business, according to senators on Tuesday. ”EDSA has restored democracy but still has unfinished business….. freedom from […]

Drones to drop sterile male mosquitos in fight against Zika virus in Brazil
Drones to drop sterile male mosquitos in fight against Zika virus in Brazil

The International Atomic Energy Agency has concocted a novel plan to combat the spread of the Zika virus in Brazil by sterilizing and releasing large amounts of male mosquitoes using drones. Sterilized male mosquitoes will mate with females in the wild who will lay eggs that produce no offspring. “It’s […]

PDEA 11 douse cold water on Mar Roxas’ drugs accusation
PDEA 11 douse cold water on Mar Roxas’ drugs accusation

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Davao doused cold water on the claims of a presidential candidate that anyone can buy drugs in the city. PDEA region 11 Director Adzhar Albani refused to be dragged to political mudslinging over the drugs issue in Davao City but defended the city’s […]

This artist creates artwork sans brush, ink and canvas
This artist creates artwork sans brush, ink and canvas

Прошлый сезон A photo posted by @semenbukharin on Nov 28, 2014 at 3:00am PST With neither brush, ink and canvas artist create artworks in the snow. With neither brush nor canvas for his artworks, this school groundskeeper create his paintings in the snow. Semyon Bukharin, a janitor in one of […]

Territorial sea disputes seen to take spotlight during ASEAN ministerial meet
Territorial sea disputes seen to take spotlight during ASEAN ministerial meet

The territorial disputes in the South China Sea would likely steal the spotlight in this week’s Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting by the regional bloc’s 10 foreign ministers amid reports of China’s installation of anti-aircraft missiles on Woody Island. At odds with China over disputed territories in […]

Pope Francis on Sunday appeal for abolition of death penalty
Pope Francis on Sunday appeal for abolition of death penalty

Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for a worldwide abolition of death penalty or capital punishment. “I appeal to the consciences of those who govern to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty… The commandment ‘you shall not kill’ has absolute value and applies to both the innocent and […]

Outer space-type music over Moon scared Apollo 10 astronauts, NASA reveals
Outer space-type music over Moon scared Apollo 10 astronauts, NASA reveals

Now it can be revealed. What have Apollo astronauts been hiding for decades? An Apollo mission secretly hidden in a classified tape for almost 40 years has been finally revealed, according to a NASA recent report. Three astronauts who served on the Apollo 10 mission dating back to 1969 — […]

No fisherfolk should be left behind – Mar Roxas
No fisherfolk should be left behind – Mar Roxas

Liberal Party standard bearer Manuel “Mar” Roxas II vowed on Sunday that he will take concrete steps to modernize the country’s fisheries system if he is elected in the May 9 national polls. Roxas shared his plans during the first Presidential Debate organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in […]

Duterte vows to deal decisively with crime, rice cartels
Duterte vows to deal decisively with crime, rice cartels

If elected to the presidency in the coming May 9 elections, PDP-Laban standard bearer Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Sunday to eliminate crime and rice cartels within the first few months of his six-year term. He made the statement during the second round of the first Pilipinas Debates, which was held […]

The qualities of the next president according to Sen. Miriam Santiago
The qualities of the next president according to Sen. Miriam Santiago

Presidential candidate and Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago said the next leader of the country should have moral excellency apart from being excellent academically and professionally. In her statement during the Presidential Debate held in Cagayan de Oro City on Sunday, the lawmaker said she believes that it is important that […]

First PH Presidential candidates’ debate unfolds tonight in Cagayan de Oro
First PH Presidential candidates’ debate unfolds tonight in Cagayan de Oro

All five presidential candidates on Sunday night will gather at Capitol University of Cagayan de Oro for the first round under the auspices of the Commission on Elections to give the millions of people watching television and a few hundreds more in the audience a view of the contenders. The […]

AFP, PNP deploys more security personnel to Masbate province
AFP, PNP deploys more security personnel to Masbate province

Election hotspot Masbate province has all the eyes and ears of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the region. After sending 700 policemen last week to the province under the regional task force, a second batch of 100 officers will beef up police presence […]

Seven Albay LGU’s get warning for non compliance of eco-solid waste management law
Seven Albay LGU’s get warning for non compliance of eco-solid waste management law

Seven Albay LGU’s get warning for non compliance of eco-solid waste management law. Seven local government units in Albay province has been cited for failure to strictly comply with proper waste disposal management as mandated in the Ecological Solid Management Act of 2000. This was echoed by a top honcho […]

Albay province cuts 287 trees along the highway, receives green eco champion award
Albay province cuts 287 trees along the highway, receives green eco champion award

Albay province receives green eco champion award sans cutting of 287 trees along the highway. Albay Governor Joey Sarte Salceda received the Green Eco Champion Award for the province during the First Environmental Summit in the Philippines at the SMX Convention Center in the Mall of Asia, Pasay City, last […]

Video:  Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Automated Election System
Video: Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Automated Election System

Watch the live stream feed of the joint congressional oversight committee on the automated election system The agenda for this include: Update from Comelec on the preparations for the 2016 national and local elections minimum system capabilities of the vote counting machines field testing for the transmission of election results. […]

President Aquino attends US-ASEAN summit in California
President Aquino attends US-ASEAN summit in California

President Aquino leaves for US-ASEAN summit in California. President Benigno S. Aquino III has vowed to further solidify the Philippines’ stand for the peace process during his attendance in the two-day ASEAN-US Leaders’ Summit in the United States this week. The Summit, to be held in Sunnylands, California, aims to […]

Study reveals compound in broccoli slows breast cancer cell growth
Study reveals compound in broccoli slows breast cancer cell growth

Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) and the Oregon Health & Science University suggested in a new study that sulforaphane may play a role in slowing cancer even as it has long shown evidence of value in cancer prevention growth. Sulforaphane is a compound found in broccoli and other cruciferous […]

Mindanao Ombudsman dismiss 156 mayors, top rank public officials in 2015
Mindanao Ombudsman dismiss 156 mayors, top rank public officials in 2015

Too many bad eggs in Mindanao. There were 156 mayors and other top ranked government officials got dismissed by the Office of the Ombudsman of Mindanao in 2015 for various unlawful transactions. Of these number, five mayors, one regional director, and one deputy provincial treasurer were axed from public service. […]

Comelec to conduct mock elections in 20 cities and towns nationwide
Comelec to conduct mock elections in 20 cities and towns nationwide

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to conduct mock elections on 13 February 2016 in 20 cities and municipalities nationwide, in preparation for the 9 May 2016 national and local elections. According to Comelec, the mock elections will test and ensure the adequate security, accuracy, system and functional capability […]

Presidential candidates start campaign with generous promises
Presidential candidates start campaign with generous promises

The campaign promises start to pour. It all began yesterday. We heard the candidates talk, fast talk about what they intend to do, the promises each will leave in every campaign podium around the country, just before election day of May 9, 2016. To our readers, you can play with […]

The Race to Malacanang opens, campaign season begins
The Race to Malacanang opens, campaign season begins

The Race to Malacanang opens, campaign season begins. Happening now are the opening salvo of all five presidential, vice presidential and senatorial teams and candidates for the May 9, 2016 elections. Five separate proclamation rallies are being held on strategic places around the country, also based on political preference and […]

Live Stream: Poe-Llamanzares Vs. Comelec 4rth Oral Arguments at SCOTP
Live Stream: Poe-Llamanzares Vs. Comelec 4rth Oral Arguments at SCOTP

Live Stream: Poe-Llamanzares Vs. Comelec 4rth Oral Arguments at SCOTP This is the fourth live stream coverage of the Poe-Llamanzares Vs. Comelec 4rth Oral Arguments G.R. No. 221697 from the Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCOTP). Follow the update on the disqualification case for the presidential run of Senator Grace […]

Comelec to start printing of 55.7 million ballots for May 2016 elections
Comelec to start printing of 55.7 million ballots for May 2016 elections

The Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) will start printing of more than 55.7 million official ballots for the May 9 polls at the National Printing Office (NPO) in Quezon City on Monday. Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said that the start of ballot printing will involve the dry run of the […]

P171-B south line of North South Railway Project has 5 bidders
P171-B south line of North South Railway Project has 5 bidders

Big money projects under the government’s Public Private Partnership program is a crowd drawer among investors. The P171-billion South Line of the North South Railway Project (NSRP) under the public-private partnership (PPP) program has attracted five firms already. Leading the pack of parties interested include Ayala Corp., Metro Pacific Investments […]

Commission on Elections OK’s presidential candidacy of Duterte
Commission on Elections OK’s presidential candidacy of Duterte

The Philippine Commission on Elections OK’s candidacy of Duterte. This after the Comelec First Division unanimously denied the four disqualification cases filed against presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for lack of merit. Dismissed petitions include one filed by Ruben H. Castor. The Petition to Deny Due Course and/or […]

Freak accident mars tourist’s engagement proposal over cliffs of El Nido
Freak accident mars tourist’s engagement proposal over cliffs of El Nido

[flexiblemap address=”Mount Taraw, El Nido, Palawan” region=”Philippines” directions=”true” width=”100%” height=”250px” zoom=”10″ ] A foreign tourist hiked the ruggedly sharp cliffs of Mount Taraw of El Nido on Tuesday with his girlfriend with a good plan. Upon reaching the desired spot, Jean Jacques, the African tourist popped a ring to girlfriend […]