Puno: Lawmakers back Senate move to scrap projects lacking documents

MANILA, Philippines – House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III on Thursday said congressional amendments to the P7.2-trillion proposed budget for next year should not be automatically presumed to involve corruption and wrongdoing as the chamber faces heightened scrutiny over its spending bill. “Not all changes made by Congress to the budget are wrong,” Dy said

MANILA, Philippines — A former law school dean’s decision to beg off from his presentation as a witness in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial is correct, Bicol Saro party-list Rep. Terry Ridon said. He explains that this is because what should be addressed are numbers concerning the unexplained wealth issue, and not legalities. Ridon in

OLONGAPO CITY -The fire that broke out at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone on Wednesday night gutted a large part of Jinboway Technology Ltd. Corporation inside the Subic Gateway Park, the Inquirer learned. The fire, which was the biggest in recent years inside the Freeport, started at 10:45 pm on Wednesday and lasted past 6

MANILA, Philippines – Newly-appointed chief justice Rodil Zalameda, 63, is a longtime public servant, having served as city prosecutor and associate justice of the Court of Appeals (CA) and the Supreme Court (SC). Under a scholarship grant, Zalameda obtained his law degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1987. As a law student, he

BAGUIO CITY — Frost on Thursday morning coated flowers grown at a farm tourism destination in Atok, Benguet, surprising its owner, who expected the cold to occur later in the Yuletide season amid a very strong El Niño. PJ Haight, proprietor of Haight’s Place in Barangay Paoay, shared photos of frost covering flowers at his

MANILA, Philippines – The Senate impeachment court has asserted that the petition filed by two of its members before the Supreme Court (SC) on the number of votes required to convict Vice President Sara Duterte is fatally premature. In a statement on Thursday, spokesperson for the court Atty. Reginald Tongol, shared the Senate’s Nov. 3

Breakfast and brunch restaurant Recovery Food is saying goodbye after 14 years.

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. led the ceremonial activation of the first gas flow from the Malampaya Phase 4 project at the Malampaya Onshore Gas Plant in Tabangao Ambulong, Batangas City on Thursday. The project adds an estimated 222 billion cubic feet of natural gas reserves to the country’s indigenous supply following

TACLOBAN CITY — Students of Leyte Normal University (LNU) in this city are now allowed to wear appropriate civilian attire on campus following the temporary suspension of the university’s prescribed uniform due to rising temperatures. The LNU Supreme Student Council (SSC) said that the adjustment took effect on Tuesday in response to the high heat

[Updated Nov. 5, 2026, 3:35 p.m.] MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has chosen Supreme Court Associate Justice Rodil V. Zalameda to serve as the next chief justice of the Supreme Court, Presidential Communications Office Secretary Lino Cayetano made the announcement on Thursday. He will succeed Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, who is set to retire

LUCENA CITY, Quezon – Authorities launched a search-and-rescue operation for seven men who went missing after their cargo boat capsized in the waters off Jomalig, Quezon, on Wednesday. In a report on Thursday, Quezon police said the wife of the 62-year-old boat captain notified the police station that the motorized vessel, identified as MV AC,

Marriages between South Korean men and Japanese women rose 25.8% to a record 1,494 in 2025, even as unions with brides from Vietnam, China and Thailand declined, government data shows.