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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur – Joint operatives arrested a newly-identified high-value individual (NHVI) and seized approximately 250 grams of suspected shabu worth P1.7 million during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Malagutay, Zamboanga City, officials confirmed Wednesday. Maj. Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-9 (PRO 9) information officer, said the joint anti-illegal drug operation was conducted

A patient with private health insurance in Thailand is admitted to a hospital in Bangkok, and the hospital still asks for a deposit before it will begin treatment. That isn’t a clerical error or a rare exception. It’s how the system is designed to work, and most expats only discover it once they’re standing at …

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Police arrested a Chinese man for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to make purchases, causing losses of more than 29 million baht. Officers from the Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD) raided three businesses in Chiang Mai and on Yaowarat Road in Bangkok after receiving complaints from Chinese nationals about suspected credit card …

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Thai authorities are working through tens of thousands of companies suspected of holding land for foreign buyers. The assumption underneath the whole exercise is that foreigners who wanted a house here had no lawful route to one.  That assumption is wrong. A narrow legal route has existed since 1979, written into a statute almost nobody …

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MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday advised candidates of the first Bangsamoro parliamentary elections and the special elections for Dasmariñas, Cavite’s congressional seat to abide by its rules and regulations as the campaign period kicks off on Thursday.  The campaign period for the parliamentary elections will run from July 30, 2026

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City will initiate expropriation proceedings against property owners who refuse to sell land needed for the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (CBRT) project, as it races to complete right-of-way acquisition and secure the release of the remaining national funds. Mayor Nestor Archival announced the plan during a press conference earlier this

Plans for an International Boxing Federation (IBF) minimumweight world title fight between reigning champion Pedro Taduran and mandatory challenger DianXing Zhu have officially fallen through, according to Cebuano boxing promoter Lorenzo "Chao" Sy.

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team on Wednesday said it decided to forgo the cross-examination of one of the prosecution’s witnesses on Article I of the impeachment complaint to avoid unnecessarily prolonging the proceedings and “being petty by asking unnecessary questions.” READ: LIVE UPDATES: Impeachment trial of VP Sara Duterte | July

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Wednesday rejected Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s description of jailed politicians Rodante Marcoleta, Jinggoy Estrada, and Mike Defensor as “political prisoners,” emphasizing the independence of the country’s judiciary. In a Facebook Live video last week, Cayetano claimed that the Department of Justice and the Office of the Ombudsman were being “weaponized” to

BACO, Oriental Mindoro – Despite objections by environmental groups and an existing provincial ordinance that bans sand mining and dredging along coastlines and municipal waters, Mayor Allan Roldan has maintained that river dredging operations are necessary to address the town’s persistent flooding problems.  Roldan made his assertion during a Wednesday interview on the radio program