Balita.org: Your Premier Source for Comprehensive Philippines News and Insights! We bring you the latest news, stories, and updates on a wide range of topics, including politics, culture, economy, and more. Stay tuned to know everything you wish about your favorite stars 24/7.
MANILA, Philippines — A synchronized plebiscite to amend any provision of the 1987 Constitution cannot be done together with the May 2025 midterm polls, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Garcia said yesterday.
QUEZON CITY — The Office of the Vice President (OVP) joined the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the distribution of Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) to families living in Barangay Payatas here on December 15.
Contrary to initial reports that farmers in Hacienda Palico, Banilad and Caylaway, all located in Nasugbu, Batangas have been dispossessed of lands awarded to them by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), each of the farmer-beneficiaries will be given individual parcels of land under the compromise agreement between the farmers and Roxas and Co. Inc. This is the result of the Consolidated Order issued by the DAR last December 29, 2023, having become final and executory as of January 30, 2024, after no party filed any motion for reconsideration or appeal, within the fifteen (15) day mandatory period, contesting the consolidated order.
THE Sonshine Media Network Inc. (SMNI) will appeal its suspension before the Office of the President, after the motion for reconsideration it filed before the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) was denied, one of the SMNI lawyers said.
CEBU, Philippines — They may have fallen short in their title quest but the OCCCI Sheermasters of Ormoc City are still happy and proud of their first runner-up finish in the Sinulog Cup 2024 Basketball Tournament recently.
CEBU, Philippines — Cebuano basketball great Filomeno “Minoy” Chuntic passed away last Saturday, January 27. He was 84.
MANILA, Philippines — The Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed with finality its decision junking the libel case filed by former vice president Jejomar Binay against former senator Antonio Trillanes IV over his implication that Binay was involved in an alleged P100 million-a-year racket on “ghost” senior citizens.
THE Supreme Court has acquitted two suspects in a drug case for law enforcers' failure to comply with the mandatory witness rule.