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CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — Young filmmakers from Mimaropa turned the struggles, aspirations, and resilience of agrarian reform beneficiaries into cinematic stories, with two films emerging as best films in the second year of the Department of Agrarian Reform’s PelikulAgraryo festival. The 13 entries from 10 production teams representing eight schools across the Mimaropa region

BAGUIO CITY — Seven men, three of them barely out of their teens, were found dead inside a tunnel in the Benguet mining town of Itogon, in an incident that police are investigating as possible gas poisoning. The Itogon Municipal Police Station said the incident may have occurred on Sept. 30 in Sitio Dalicno in

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Friday appealed to US Immigration authorities for the immediate release of Mark Mabasa, son of slain broadcast journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa, who has been detained in California since Sept. 21. Mabasa is being held at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center, according to his

Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV urged Senate impeachment court presiding officer Francis Escudero to prioritize the presentation of evidence over technicalities in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.

TACLOBAN CITY — Five individuals formerly linked to the communist insurgency surrendered to police authorities in the Samar provinces within the week, turning over firearms, ammunition, and an explosive device, the Police Regional Office 8 (PRO-8) said. PRO-8 said the surrenderers were identified as former members or supporters of the New People’s Army(NPA), with four

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CALASIAO, Pangasinan — The provincial government of La Union will shift to a four-day workweek starting Oct. 5, with employees working from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. The new schedule will remain in effect until revoked, according to Memorandum Circular No. 31-2026. John Martin, a staff member of the La Union information

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Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV doesn't explicitly disclose what he means when he says the prosecution is being pressured over his testimony, but he still can't resist taking a swipe at the trial's presiding officer