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MANILA, Philippines — Instead of granting the Commission on Elections additional powers that could regulate candidates’ use of social media, the Comelec should focus on addressing the perennial problem of vote-buying first, Lanao del Norte Rep. Khalid Dimaporo said Wednesday.
COTABATO CITY — Two Bangsamoro regional agencies and the office of the provincial governor in Basilan will jointly study the viability of setting up an airport in the island province to boost its economy.
ILOILO CITY, Philippines — With damage to agriculture and livelihood breaching P1 billion, the entire province of Iloilo has been placed under a state of calamity due to El Niño.
Sen. Ronald dela Rosa, the first national police chief under Rodrigo Duterte, conducts a Senate probe that revives stories about Ferdinand Marcos Jr. being a cocaine addict.
COTABATO CITY — A man stabbed his 11-year-old son to death and wounded her adolescent daughter in a rampage in their home, located in the seaside Barangay Magsaysay in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte, at around Sunday midnight.
MANILA, Philippines -- "Nightmare" indeed.
MANILA, Philippines — Associates of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s economic adviser Michael Yang, who is being investigated by a House committee for drug links, may have all gone into hiding after being found to have faked their identities and used spurious documents to acquire vast landholdings in the country.
Will anomalies never end in the Bureau of Immigration? On Nov. 9, 2020 while the COVID pandemic was raging with no vaccine available, Rodrigo Duterte summoned over 40 BI employees to Malacañang to berate them over the so-called pastillas scam. This referred to the anomalous entry of foreigners mostly from China who ended up working in Philippine offshore gaming operator or POGO firms. The cash payments for facilitating the entry were reportedly handed over to BI personnel in rolled-up bundles resembling pastillas or local milk pastry.