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VP-linked firm won 11 no-bid contracts
ELEVEN of 15 contracts awarded by the Davao City government under Mayor Sebastian Duterte to GenCorp Industries Inc., a company linked to Vice President Sara Duterte, did not undergo public bidding, a Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System...
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Lacson presses Dizon over Taguig project
SEN. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday asked Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon to explain why billing photographs for a Taguig project carried geotagged coordinates pointing to Leyte. In a social media post, Lacson cited a Department of Public Works and...
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Veloso longing for mother’s adobo after years in prison
AFTER spending nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia and almost two years in a Philippine prison, Mary Jane Veloso is finally home with her family, enjoying what she has longed for — her mother’s cooking. Veloso was released from the Correctional...
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Carlos Yulo grabs Asiad double gold
CARLOS Yulo delivered the second gold medal for the Philippines in the 2026 Asian Games in less than 24 hours. Fresh off giving the country its first gold in the men’s floor exercise on Thursday, Yulo headed to the Nagoya City General Gymnasium on...
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Calamba wins back-to-back TMT Top Model City award
MARKING its third overall win and second consecutive title, Calamba City was named the Top Model City at The Manila Times Philippine Model Cities and Municipalities 2026. Bacnotan, La Union, was named Top Model Municipality for the second...
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TUNNEL VISIT
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. inspects the excavation work using a tunnel boring machine, which completed the southbound underground tunnel from North Avenue to Quezon Avenue on Sept. 14, 2026. The Metro Manila Subway Project with cut travel time from...
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Duterte-linked firm got 49 govt contracts
FORTY-NINE contracts worth a combined P35.878 million were awarded by various government agencies to a corporation linked to Vice President Sara Duterte, a state procurement official testified on Tuesday. Philippine Government Electronic Procurement...
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‘VP Sara violated ban on business holdings’
DESPITE the constitutional prohibition against directly or indirectly participating in any business while in office, Vice President Sara Duterte remained an incorporator, board director, and 20-percent stakeholder in Davaobased Metro City Chowfoods...
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UNCERTAIN FUTURE
This photo taken on Sept. 2, 2026, shows houses that might be affected by the proposed Pax Silica hub in Capas, Tarlac province. In April, the United States announced that the Philippines had joined Pax Silica, a US-led effort to strengthen supply...
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POMP AND PAGEANTRY
The photo on the left shows the lit cauldron at the end of the opening ceremony of the 2026 Asian Games at Paloma Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya on Sept. 19, 2026. The photo on the right shows a kabuki warrior at the opening.
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China Coast Guard ship rams PH vessel
ACHINA Coast Guard ship a vessel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) carrying fuel for Filipino fishing boats off Palawan on Friday morning. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported that the incident took place just 54 nautical...
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Prosecutors to probe VP’s Davao ventures
THE prosecution panel of the House of Representatives on Thursday said the subpoena on Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte would zero in on city hall transactions involving Gencorp Industries Inc., a company linked to Vice President Sara...
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Fewer than 16 votes can convict VP Sara
THREE of the four retired justices of the Supreme Court who were invited to share their thoughts with the Senate impeachment court trying Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday agreed that the Constitution’s two-thirds vote requirement for convicting...
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DISASTER CONFERENCE
Officials from member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations link arms during the opening ceremony of the Asean Ministerial Conference on Disaster Resilience held at the Conrad Manila in Pasay City on Sept. 15, 2026. The two-day...
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POLL CLASH
A group attacks a vehicle from an opposing group outside a school used as a polling center during the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao parliamentary elections in Cotabato City, southern Philippines, on Sept. 14, 2026.
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BARMM holds historic elections
UNDER the watchful eyes of international and local observers, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will hold its first parliamentary elections today, the fulfillment of several decades of peace process that spanned several...
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Vote buying, violence threaten BARMM polls
HE Bangsamoro region faces electoral and security risks as it enters the final stretch toward its first parliamentary election on Monday, with reports of vote buying and po-litical violence threatening the credibility of the historic polls, even as the...
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Sara blasts Marcos, urges him to resign
VICE President Sara Duterte on Friday called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to resign, accusing him of being a liar and an abusive leader. Duterte fired her latest broadside at the president during a rally at the Quezon City Hall. “Let us continue...
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65 cities, towns, vie for TMT award for model communities
SIXTY-FIVE cities and towns are competing this year in The Manila Times Philippine Model Cities and Municipalities Awards 2026. Undergoing a judging process that began on Thursday, Sept. 10, are 40 cities and 25 towns — “the most entries yet” since...
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Police hospital room ready for Romualdez
AN ordinary patient room at the Philippine National Police General Hospital (PNPGH) is ready for former speaker Martin Romualdez once the Sandiganbayan grants the motion for continued hospital arrest, a PNP official said on Wednesday. “The Health...
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Prosecutors want VP Sara to testify
THE House prosecution panel said on Tuesday it aims to present Vice President Sara Duterte before the Senate impeachment court as a witness in her own trial, arguing that her testimony would be relevant to the entire case. This followed the...
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Names of kids, dead in OVP recipient list
SOME recipients of Vice President Sara Duterte’s confidential funds matched the names of people who had already died and children, including a two-month-old baby who died in 1965, an official of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) testified...
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PLANTING SEASON
As the rain stopped, farmers in Kawit, Cavite, plant rice on Sept. 6, 2026, hoping that the seedlings would not drown in the heavy rain that the weather bureau said will be brought by the southwest monsoon.
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VP Sara posts bail but skips mugshots
VICE President Sara Duterte posted bail at a Quezon City courthouse on Saturday, a day after an arrest warrant was issued over her alleged death threat against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., first lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and former speaker Martin...
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CLEANUP
Authorities clear debris along Marilaque Highway from a landslide at a nearby village in Rizal on Sept. 4, 2026. The highway, which connects the provinces of Rizal, Laguna and Quezon, is not passable as of press time.
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SCHOOL DRILL
SCHOOLS throughout the country on Thursday held the National Simultaneous School Safety Drill to train students, teachers and staff to respond to violent incidents on their campuses. Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla and Department of Education...
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Poa doesn’t know where cash went
FORMER Department of Education (DepEd) undersecretary Michael Wesley Poa on Wednesday testified that he reported directly to then-Education secretary Sara Duterte, received her instructions on department operations and sought her guidance before media...
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‘DepEd under Duterte duped Army, auditors’
THE Department of Education (DepEd), then under Vice President Sara Duterte, submitted a routine Philippine Army certification to justify to state auditors the use of P15.54 million in confidential funds, but the document did nothing to prove how the...
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33 dead, 8.6M affected by storms, monsoon
RELENTLESS rains and floods caused by the combined effects of tropical storms Maymay, Luis, Neneng and the southwest monsoon or habagat have claimed 33 lives and affected over 8.6 million people across the country, the National Disaster Risk Reduction...
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No respite from rains as monsoon intensifies
METRO MANILA and most of the country will have no respite from heavy rains and flooding at the start of the week as a tropical depression intensifies the southwest monsoon or “habagat,” the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services...
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MONSOON MAYHEM
Heavy monsoon rains flood the Zapote Junction in Las Piñas on Aug. 29, 2026, congesting traffic, stalling vehicles and forcing people to wade through knee-deep waters. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration...
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New flood risks slow Nepal, Tibet rescue
RESCUERS plowed on with their search on Friday for survivors of deadly floods and landslides that struck Nepal and Tibet, with the threat of new torrents complicating their gargantuan task. Emergency teams have recovered 482 bodies after a...
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1,300 missing after floods devastate Nepal, Tibet
NUWAKOT, Nepal — Rescue teams scoured devastated zones on Thursday for more than 1,300 people missing a day after flash floods and landslides along the Nepal-Tibet border killed at least 270, sweeping away entire villages. Homes were engulfed and...
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Court admonishes VP, lawyers, judges
THE Senate impeachment court on Wednesday imposed stricter rules on public statements about the trial and asked the defense team to remind their client, Vice President Sara Duterte, of the sub judice rule after she called on the prosecution to prove...
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NEW WITNESS
Lemuel Ortonio (right), Office of the Vice President assistant chief-of-staff, testifies during the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Aug. 25, 2026.
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WATERY WORLD
Flooded communities were what President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. saw when he conducted an aerial inspection in Bulacan and Pampanga on Aug. 24, 2026. The president said all ood management programs were overwhelmed, leading to major flooding in Region 3.
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‘Marcoleta, Defensor face perjury case’
DETAINED Sen. Rodante Marcoleta and former representative Mike Defensor could face a subornation of perjury complaint for supposedly “coaching” former Marine Orly Guteza while testifying before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee last year, Sen. Panfilo...
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CELEBRATING HARVEST AND TRADITION
Young and old villagers of Hungduan, Ifugao, celebrate the end of the agricultural cycle through the traditional ‘punnuk’ on Aug. 22, 2026, highlighted by Indigenous games such as tug-of-war and body wrestling along the mighty Hapao River. Practiced...
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ROADWAY COLLAPSE
The eroded section of the Benguet-Nueva Vizcaya Road in Beckel, La Trinidad, Benguet, where a large portion of the two-lane roadway collapsed following days of continuous rain as shown in this photo taken on Aug. 21, 2026. The damaged section has been...
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SHABU FOUND
Customs personnel process 43 kilograms of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, worth P292.4 million concealed in fabric pouches found in a shipment from Afghanistan at the Manila International Container Port.
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Shooter’s dad left guns in car on way to school
THE Grade 9 shooter at Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU) gained access to the guns he used because his father, a Customs police chief, left the weapons inside his car while they drove to school, Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla said on...
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SEARCH FOR BOY
Members of the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and the maritime police on Tuesday continued their search for a 13-year-old boy who was swept by strong waves at Baseco Beach on Aug. 16, 2026.
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MONSOON MISERY
Motorists and pedestrians brave knee-deep floods along España Boulevard in Manila on Aug. 17, 2026, as Metro Manila was pounded with strong rain triggered by the southwest monsoon.
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Eala advances to Cincinnati Open 3rd round
ALEXANDRA “Alex” Eala dominated Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse, 6-1, 3-0 (ret.), early Sunday in Manila to enter the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open third round. Eala held a 6-1, 3-0 lead before play at the Tony Trabert Stadium 3 in Ohio was suspended due to...
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Lump-sum allocations in 2027 budget flagged
SEN. Panfilo Lacson has flagged what he described as “questionable” lump-sum appropriations for infrastructure projects in the proposed P7.2-trillion national budget for 2027, saying he will demand details from the government agency concerned. Lacson...
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More skull fractures found in remains of EJK victim
FORENSIC pathologist Dr. Raquel Fortun said on Friday that her examination of the exhumed remains of 18-year-old Raymart Siapo, one of the alleged victims in the Duterte administration’s drug war, revealed additional skull fractures that she classified...
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LIFE GOES ON
Residents of Calumpit, Bulacan, endure floods after days of rain. The town was placed under state of calamity after 29 of its villages were submerged by floods. As of Aug. 13, 2026, many areas were in waist-deep floods.
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‘Only VP can explain disallowed transfers’
ONLY Vice President Sara Duterte can fully explain why confidential funds allocated to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and Department of Education (DepEd) were funneled by designated disbursing officers to third parties despite rules restricting...
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COA: VP accountable for misusing budget
VICE President Sara Duterte is the primary accountable public official for irregularities in the use of confidential funds by her office in 2022 and 2023, a state auditor testified on the 14th day of Duterte’s impeachment trial. From Dec. 13 to 31,...
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15 dead as heavy rainfall continues
THE reported death toll due to the combined onslaught of Tropical Cyclones Maymay and Luis and the southwest monsoon or habagat has climbed to 15, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Monday. The PNP said casualties totaled 34 including the 15...
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DPWH races to repair damaged roads, bridges
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) stepped up efforts to repair roads, bridges and dikes damaged by floods in 182 areas in northern Luzon following torrential monsoon rains. Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon said emergency...
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6 dead, 74,755 families affected by storms, rain
SIX people have died and more than 74,000 families have been affected by the combined effects of Tropical Cyclones Luis and Maymay and the southwest monsoon or “habagat,” the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on...
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Legarda, Leviste fly out of the county
THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has confirmed that Sen. Loren Legarda and her son, Batangas 1st District Rep. Leandro Leviste, left the country on Aug. 2, before they could be subpoenaed in plunder and graft cases in connection with...
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4 killed in Benguet, Rizal landslides amid heavy rain
AT least four people were killed in separate landslides in Benguet and Rizal on Thursday as the combined effects of tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay, and the southwest monsoon (habagat) continued to affect nearly 81,000 people across the country, the...
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COA rules silent on use of aliases like ‘Piattos’
COMMISSION on Audit (COA) guidelines on confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) do not prohibit the use of code names or aliases — even obviously fictional ones such as “Mary Grace Piattos,” “Chippy McDonald” and “Mickey Mouse” in acknowledgment...
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OVP tried to get COA to go easy on findings
HOUSE prosecutor and Bicol Saro party-list Rep. Terry Ridon on Tuesday said the Office of the Vice President (OVP) sought a softer audit action from the Commission on Audit (COA) after irregularities were found in its use of the confidential and...
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MORE DOCUMENTS
Workers carry boxes labeled ‘confidential funds’ containing documents to be presented during the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Aug. 3, 2026.
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ANOTHER VICTORY
Alexandra Eala of the Philippines celebrates after winning a women’s singles match against Naomi Osaka of Japan on day six of the Mubadala D.C. Open 2026 at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center on Aug. 1, 2026, in Washington, D.C.
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PH strengthens claim, files WPS map at UN
THE Southern Police District (SPD) is preparing to file a murder complaint against a 14-year-old student accused of stabbing and killing his Grade 9 classmate inside Las Piñas National High School over an argument about P10, as investigators seek to...
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CHARGING STATION
A solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging station is installed at a gasoline station along Congressional Avenue in Quezon City on July 31, 2026. An attendant said the charging station harnessed solar energy through panels that tilted to follow the...
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Marcos OKs release of VP’s tax records
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has authorized the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to submit the tax records of Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, to the Senate Impeachment Court trying her case. BIR representatives...
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VP cash withdrawals filled 4 big gym bags
FOUR P125 million cash withdrawals made by the Office of the Vice President (OVP) — each of which filled four large gym bags — were “unusual” and unlike the transactions of other government agencies, retired Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank)...
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AFP spots 26 Chinese naval, coast guard ships
A TOTAL of 26 Chinese naval and coast guard vessels were spotted in four key features of the West Philippine Sea (WPS) from July 21 to 26, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Tuesday. AFP spokesman for the WPS, Navy reservist Rear Admiral...
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Marcos cites looming cases vs Romualdez
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday cited gains in prosecuting those responsible for massive corruption in government flood control projects, pointing to impending charges against his own cousin, former House speaker Martin Romualdez. In his...
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MARITIME DRILL
The Philippines’ BRP Antonio Luna, Japan’s JS Yuudachi, and USS Santa Barbara of the US hold division tactics exercise during the 17th Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity in the West Philippine Sea.
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FOR LOVE OF THE GAME
Gamers check out and experience the future of gaming and game development in the Philippines during the opening of the three-day Philippine GameDev Expo at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City on July 25, 2026.
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US imposes new tariff on PH exports
THE United States is imposing a new 12.5-percent tariff on exports from the PhilipTpines for failing to adopt measures against goods produced with forced labor, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) said in a statement on Friday. Exports from...
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UNDER ATTACK
A CHINA Coast Guard vessel blasted a Philippine government ship with a water cannon for more than two minutes while it was conducting a fuel and food mission for Filipino fishermen near Bajo de Masinloc, Philippine authorities said on...
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WELCOME FOR RUBIO
Rallyists protesting the visit of United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrangle with policemen who blocked protesters who marched to the Philippine International Convention Center, where the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held, on July 22,...
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Persons of interest tagged in VP’s case
THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has established “persons of interest” and is pursuing leads in its continuing investigation into Vice President Sara Duterte’s threats against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the members of his family,...
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Subpoenas OKd for VP’s records
THE Senate impeachment court on Monday approved the prosecution’s request to subpoena the financial records of Vice President Sara Duterte, her husband, Manases Carpio, and their businesses. During the seventh day of Duterte’s impeachment trial,...
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BINIBINI WINNERS
Binibining Pilipinas International 2026 winners pose after their coronation on July 18, 2026 — first runner-up Julianne Raine Antonio of Dumaguete City, Binibining Pilipinas International 2026 Gwendoline Meliz Soriano of Baguio City, Binibining...
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PINOY INDIGENOUS SOUND
Talahib, a Filipino folk and world music group, showcases indigenous instruments during a cultural exchange with performers from different Southeast Asian countries during the Sulong SEAPop Music and Culture Caravan at SM City Manila on July 18, 2026....
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SALUTE TO SEAFARERS
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. honors the 327 cadets and 21 master’s degree graduates of the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy ‘Salighirang’ Class of 2026 during commencement exercises in San Narciso, Zambales, on July 17, 2026. The president...
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