MANILA, Philippines – The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) will permanently eliminate fees for interbank fund transfers across its digital platforms beginning July 1, as part of its 175th anniversary and a broader push for financial inclusion. Customers using the BPI mobile app, online banking, VYBE, BanKo, and BizKo will no longer pay the

MANILA, Philippines — House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” G. Dy III is pushing for stronger measures to protect Filipino children from the growing dangers of social media, ensuring it allows their healthy development without exposing them to harm, according to a statement his office issued on Monday. So, together with Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos, Dy

COTABATO CITY  — An armed man was killed after he allegedly resisted arrest during a law enforcement operation in Barangay New Panay, Aleosan, Cotabato province at dawn on Monday. Police authorities implementing a search warrant also arrested another man, seized five pistols and confiscated 22 sachets of suspected shabu during the 4:30 a.m. operation. Brig.

MANILA, Philippines — The proposed Basic Education Voucher Program Act, approved by the bicameral conference committee, will expand school choices and give more Filipino students access to better learning environments, Sen. Loren Legarda, co-author and co-sponsor of the bill, said in a statement on Monday. The bill institutionalizes a unified private education voucher system to

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday said it has only so far recorded 55 cases of mpox (formerly monkeypox) in the country as of June 13, which is 79 percent lower than the previous year. READ: Mpox: What is it, how it spreads, care for patients According to DOH spokesperson Albert