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MANILA, Philippines — The southwest monsoon, locally known as habagat, will continue to bring cloudy skies and intermittent rain showers across much of the country on Tuesday, July 28, according to the state weather bureau. Weather specialist Veronica Torres of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Metro Manila and the rest

MANILA, Philippines — Gloomy skies with occasional rain showers are expected to prevail over the rest of the country on Tuesday, July 28, due to the southwest monsoon, or habagat, the state weather bureau reported. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration weather specialist Veronica Torres said that partly cloudy to cloudy skies are forecast

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos called out racist attacks by a “neighbor” in his State of the Nation Address, some two weeks after an artificial intelligence (AI) video from China depicting Filipinos as monkeys. The President devoted a good part of his penultimate address to that matter, calling it “a collective threat that lies before

FIFTH SONA — Length: 85 minutes with at least 93 rounds of applause and two standing ovations. Around 8 minutes longer than Sona 2025 HIGHLIGHTS •Starts with updates on the investigations on corruption allegations on flood control projects •Tackles the effects of the Middle East war, particularly on the safety of overseas Filipino workers, employment,

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos declared on Monday that even members of his own family and political allies would not be spared from his administration’s anticorruption campaign, citing that the Office of the Ombudsman has begun investigating his cousin, former Speaker and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, over the multibillion-peso flood control scandal. In his fifth

MANILA, Philippines — Security for President Marcos was at its highest level on Monday following a bomb explosion at midnight and the discovery of another explosive device that morning before his State of the Nation Address (Sona). Despite the tight security, the chief of the Philippine National Police said “something got past us” regarding the

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos has pressed lawmakers to recalibrate the country’s income tax system by raising the minimum annual income subject to tax to P350,000, from the current P250,000. In his fifth State of the Nation Address on Monday, the President urged Congress to pass tax reform legislation that he said could benefit millions

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos on Monday urged Congress to immediately amend the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) by abolishing the system loss charges passed on to consumers, saying it is unfair to make the public pay for inefficiencies in the power sector. In his fifth State of the Nation Address (Sona), the President

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos on Monday urged members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) to remain “steadfast partners in nation-building” as the religious group marked its 112th anniversary. Marcos reaffirmed his support for the INC, which conducted earlier this month a three-day rally in support of Sen. Rodante Marcoleta, then facing arrest for plunder

MANILA, Philippines — Seven out of 10 Filipino adults, or 72 percent, consider disinformation a big problem in the Philippines, with Facebook emerging as the top online news source (91 percent), according to the latest Pulse Asia Survey released on Monday. The survey conducted from June 28 to July 3 and on July 6 said