CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 29-year-old man is set to face theft charges after he was allegedly caught attempting to steal two pickleball paddles from a sports retail store inside a major shopping mall in Cebu City on Monday afternoon, May 25. According to a police report, the incident occurred at around 3:30 p.m. at

CEBU CITY, Philippines — It will soon be easier for citizens or Cebu residents to acquire some documents at the Capitol with the Cebu Provincial Board’s passing on final reading of the proposed Freedom of Information (FOI) Ordinance. The passing of the proposed FOI measure on the third and final reading of the Provincial Board

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Basic Education and co-chairperson of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), faced head-on the urgent challenges in Philippine education during her first EDCOM II briefing last Monday. Citing findings from the second EDCOM II, Legarda emphasized that a

ILOILO CITY — Authorities seized more than P3.6 million worth of suspected “shabu” (crystal meth) and arrested two individuals during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Poblacion Zone 1 on Monday evening, police said. The anti-illegal drugs operation, conducted at 6:25 p.m., resulted in the confiscation of approximately 540 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated

When typhoons shatter homes or earthquakes leave communities inaccessible, one immediate concern rises as people take in the devastation — where will they get food in the first critical hours “when roads are blocked and relief goods are yet to arrive”? To mark International Biodiversity Month, the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) said

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday said it is now “unable” to provide information on Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa’s case “at this time.” Dela Rosa, a former PNP chief, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in connection with his alleged participation in former President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on

CITY OF CALAPAN, Oriental Mindoro — Residents of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, were urged to take extra precautions on Tuesday after the town registered a heat index of 46 degrees Celsius, placing it under the “danger level” category, according to monitoring by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa). In an advisory, the