MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has received 98.4 percent of expected election returns (ERs) for the first Bangsamoro Parliamentary elections as of Tuesday morning, with the poll body awaiting ERs from certain precincts in Maluso, Basilan.  According to Comelec’s official website, it has already received 5,129 of the expected 5,212 ERs.  READ: PNP

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine peso dives below 62.9 level for the first time on Tuesday.  This happened as the greenback strengthened after benchmark 10-year US Treasury yields climbed to their highest level since October 2023. The currency opened at 62.9 per dollar and weakened to an intraday low of 62.905, surpassing the previous record low of

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has released new mugshots of former House Speaker and Leyte 1st District Rep. Martin Romualdez. Romualdez was transferred to the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas on Monday night by order of the Sandiganbayan Third Division. This followed a week of his confinement

TOKYO, Japan — The number of centenarians across Japan topped 100,000 for the first time, the health ministry said Tuesday. With a median age of 49.9 years, Japan has the second-oldest population in the world after Monaco, according to the World Bank. READ: Forget the AC—Japan’s got a fridge for humans The latest government survey,

MANILA, Philippines — Ateneo de Manila University historian Dr. Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. has been named an International Honorary Professor by a Mexican university, as the Philippines became the first Southeast Asian country to be named Guest Country of Honor at the 39th Feria Universitaria del Libro (FUL). Aguilar, a professor of history and assistant

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Tuesday led the ceremonial turnover of 333 housing units at Disiplina Village in Arkong Bato, Valenzuela City, for residents relocated from flood-prone areas. The Disiplina Village Arkong Bato project was designed to provide 960 housing units for qualified informal settler families affected by the Supreme Court’s mandamus