1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (999+ words) PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, PALAWAN, Philippines — Families of passengers who remain missing after the MV June Aster fire are facing another agonizing wait as authorities struggle to identify the bodies recovered from the charred vessel. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) warned…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (247+ words) MANILA, Philippines — Transport group Manibela will hold a two-day nationwide strike on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15 to protest the expected increase in fuel prices next week. Manibela chair Mar Valbuena announced the planned strike in a social media post, noting the…...

1+ day, 23+ min ago   (276+ words) CALASIAO, Pangasinan — Police seized an estimated P17.65 million worth of allegedly smuggled cigarettes from a van intercepted in Agno, Pangasinan on Thursday, authorities said. In a report on Saturday, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPO) said an inspection of the van…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1038+ words) CEBU CITY, Philippines — Before Resil Mojares became one of the country’s most respected historians and Cebu’s foremost keeper of memory, he was a fictionist. He was also a journalist, writing about Cebu’s history and culture while increasingly engaging with the…...

1+ day, 7+ min ago   (379+ words) MANILA, Philippines — Generally fair weather is expected in most parts of Luzon while cloudy skies and rain showers are possible in the Visayas and Mindanao on Sunday as the southwest monsoon or “habagat” weakens, according to the state weather bureau....

20+ hour, 53+ min ago   (163+ words) LUCENA CITY—Taal Volcano in Batangas had seven volcanic earthquakes and a prolonged tremor over the past 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported Sunday morning. The volcano, however, remains under Alert Level 1 (low level of volcanic…...

1+ day, 58+ min ago   (214+ words) COTABATO CITY —Three town mayors in Maguindanao del Sur have surrendered six high-powered firearms, including a caliber.50 machine gun, yielded by their constituents, officials said. Brig. Gen. Ricky Bunayog, acting commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division (ID), received the loose…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (410+ words) MANILA, Philippines — The spokesperson of the Senate impeachment court holding the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte clarified that at least 11 votes, including that of the presiding officer, are needed to nullify an earlier ruling that set the threshold for…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (335+ words) COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — Two suspected Moro extremists were injured in a shootout with police authorities in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur during the implementation of election gun ban on Friday afternoon, Sept. 11, police said. Capt. Steffi Salanguit, speaking for…...

21+ hour, 53+ min ago   (368+ words) CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan—Bulacan has recorded five leptospirosis deaths as cases rose to nearly 400 due to continued flooding, with coastal towns including Hagonoy, Paombong, Calumpit, and this capital city still inundated, data from the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management…...