STOCK PHOTO | Image by wal_172619 from Pixabay By John Victor D. Ordoñez, Reporter PHILIPPINE LAWMAKERS should review the country’s wage-setting system and consider amending the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001 when Read More

THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit is being held in Laos. — REVOLI S. CORTEZ/PPA POOL THE Office of the President (OP) on Monday confirmed that it had gotten a P5-billion increase Read More

A MAGNITUDE 5.6 earthquake struck Luzon in the Philippines on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), GFZ said. Philippine seismology agency Philippine Institute of Read More

BUCOR THE Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) granted a fresh start to 1,000 prisoners released between November and December 2024, bringing the total number of convicts released this year to 7,707. In a statement on Monday, Director General Gregorio Read More

RESCUE WORKERS take part in a salvage operation at the site where an aircraft crashed after it went off the runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2024. — REUTERS THE PHILIPPINE government must Read More

MORE Filipino students are pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees in Europe because of extensive and specialized studies not offered in the Philippines. “It offers extensive and highly specialized studies from wine tourism to Copernicus Read More

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS A POLITICAL GROUP on Monday raised concerns over the possibility that a government cash-aid program for poor workers could be used as a tool to engage in “vote-buying” for the upcoming 2025 Read More

STOCK PHOTO | Image by Klaus Hausmann from Pixabay COTABATO CITY — Policemen and soldiers arrested two senior leaders of the New People’s Army (NPA), wanted for high-profile criminal cases pending in courts, in a joint Read More

TOYOTA.COM.PH By Justine Irish D. Tabile, Reporter ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) sales are expected to grow next year with new entrants attracted by expanded fiscal incentives and the development of the charging network, Toyota Read More

TRAVELORIENTALMINDORO.PH THE Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has issued a bid invitation to construct a P706.05-million cruise ship port in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro. In a bid notice, the PPA said the winning contractor Read More