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CEBU CITY, Philippines — Employers cannot withhold an employee’s final pay simply because the worker has yet to complete the company’s clearance process, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Central Visayas. DOLE-7 Regional Director Atty. Roy Buenafe said employers must release wages and other legally mandated benefits immediately upon an employee’s

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Former Mayor Michael “Mike” Rama has won the dismissal of all graft charges against him after the Sandiganbayan extended its earlier ruling clearing his five co-accused and rejected the prosecution’s attempt to revive the cases arising from the city’s emergency garbage contracts after Typhoon Odette. In a resolution promulgated on July

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Once again, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) placed the Visayas grid under a yellow alert for 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, July 17, as the shutdown of the region’s two largest coal-fired plants coincided with elevated evening demand. Available capacity stood at 2,725 megawatts against forecast peak

NEW YORK — Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. on Thursday from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangerous. Officials in many cities urged residents to stay inside or wear masks outside as air quality reached unhealthy

MANILA, Philippines —The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has called on China Daily to immediately remove an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video that portrays Filipinos as monkeys, describing the content as racist, dehumanizing, and unacceptable. In a statement issued Thursday evening, the DFA said the Philippines is demanding the removal of the offensive material and urged

LUCENA CITY — Taal Volcano in Batangas produced a minor phreatomagmatic eruption on Thursday morning, July 16, marking the second such event recorded this month, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. This type of eruption is triggered when water interacts with magma.  In its morning bulletin, Phivolcs said the eruption occurred at

TACLOBAN CITY – A 14-year-old Grade 9 student is being investigated after school personnel allegedly recovered a sachet containing suspected “shabu” (crystal meth) inside the campus of Javier National High School in Javier, Leyte, prompting police and social welfare authorities to intervene. The student, identified only by the alias “CMC” to protect his identity as

Female Passenger Thrown Out of Jeepney Ends Up Under Trailer Truck in Manila  A female passenger was seriously injured after she was hit and dragged underneath a truck while chasing for a jeepney ride.  On early Thursday morning (July 16, 2026), CCTV cameras in Barangay 739, Zone 80 captured the victim getting off the front portion of a jeepney in a ... Read more

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MANILA, Philippines —The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday evening demanded that China Daily remove a video depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling the content racist, dehumanizing and unacceptable. “The Philippines demands that the offensive material be taken down, calls for the immediate cessation of such irresponsible content, and urges China to uphold dignity, respect,

MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Thursday condemned a social media video posted by Chinese state-run media China Daily depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling it racist propaganda that reflects how Beijing views the Filipino people. The video, which circulated on Facebook, mocked the 2016 arbitral award in the South China Sea. It