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‘MT. KAMUNING’ NOW A MORE USER-FRIENDLY, P55-M FOOTBRIDGE

IT’S THE CLIMB President Marcos (left inset) inspects the new “Mt. Kamuning,” the pedestrian-friendly replacement for the towering old footbridge at the corner of Edsa and Kamuning Road in Quezon City (right inset). Just 5.3-meters high, the new...

PALACE, PRINT MEDIA JOIN FORCES VS FAKE NEWS

Malacañang on Wednesday joined forces with the country’s nine leading newspapers, including the Philippine Daily Inquirer, to combat “fake news” across digital and social media platforms, calling it a “poisonous” venom. In a program held in Kalayaan...

IRANIAN DRONES HIT US EMBASSY IN SAUDI ARABIA

2 IMPEACH RAPS VS VP REMAIN; PANEL SAYS ‘FORM’ OK

The remaining two of the four initial impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte hurdled their first test on Monday, when the committee on justice of the House of Representatives unanimously declared them sufficient in form. The...

ISRAEL STRIKES TEHRAN AS COUNTERATTACKS WIDEN

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES—An enormous explosion rocked Iran’s capital on Sunday as the Israeli military said it was targeting the heart of the city. Earlier, Iran fired missiles at an ever-widening list of targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states in...

PANAGBENGA’S 30-YEAR JOURNEY OF HEALING AND HOPE

BCITY—The 30th Panagbenga or Baguio Flower Festival Street Dance Parade yesterday doubled as a history lesson, celebrating three decades of goodwill and resilience that helped revive the city’s economy after its second major devastation in the 20th...

SOCIAL CLIMATE: NEARING THE RECKONING

The revelations from the International Criminal Court (ICC), at this week’s hearing for confirmation of charges against former President Rodrigo Duterte, are of no surprise to Filipinos. They are simply a decade overdue. I see this week’s livestream...

ICC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE REJECTS CLAIM PROBE WAS ‘FUNDED’ BY TRILLANES, CO

The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday rejected claims made by alleged ex-Marines, through lawyer Levito Baligod, that some of the expenses it incurred while investigating the Duterte drug war were...

‘EDSA@40’: TIRELESS CALL VS CORRUPTION, DYNASTIES

For civil society and Church-backed groups, the Edsa People Power Revolution anniversary is an occasion to assess how sociopolitical ills have worsened over the past four decades since the peaceful uprising that earned the world’s admiration.

LIVING HISTORY

Students at Adamson University view an exhibit in their campus of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution. The Inquirer, then a fledgling newspaper, was among the few in the media that reported the four-day uprising, which the country commemorates 40...

EX-PRESIDENT’S SUPPORTERS, CRITICS KEEP EYE ON ICC HEARING

Critics and supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte held their respective protest rallies in Manila, hours before the confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court (ICC) which began on Monday at 10 a.m. in The Hague (5:30...

ICC DENIES DU30 LAWYERS’ BID FOR INFO ON WITNESSES

THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS—A pretrial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has denied the request of lawyers of former President Rodrigo Duterte for the prosecution to disclose certain information about witnesses, including their...

FOCUSED ON FLOOD WOES

President Marcos speaks with former Vice President Leni Robredo, as they inspect ongoing flood mitigation works at Magaya-gaya Creek in Naga City, where his erstwhile political rival is now the mayor, on Saturday. The two officials say they are focused...

PEOPLE’S HOLIDAY

A team from the National Capital Region Police Office rehearses a gun salute on Friday at the Edsa People Power Monument, ahead of the 40th anniversary on Feb. 25 of the peaceful four-day uprising that toppled the Marcos dictatorship in 1986. Some...

SARA TOLD: PALACE BID NO DEFENSE VS IMPEACHMENT

Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr., who endorsed the fourth impeachment complaint, says the Vice President cannot use her quest for the presidency as a shield against allegations of culpable violations of the Constitution and betrayal of public trust.

ON THE ‘COORDINATES’ QUESTION

The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority issued this updated map of the Philippines on Wednesday, hoping to clarify discussions on how the country’s exclusive economic zone should be drawn. Earlier this month, a senator noted the lack of...

CHINATOWN REVELRY

Recent animosities between Filipino and Chinese officials on the West Philippine Sea issue hardly register during Tuesday’s Lunar New Year festivities in Binondo, Manila, when the country’s deeply rooted Chinese heritage comes into full display,...

SALES OF ‘LUCKY’ ITEMS JUMP AHEAD OF CHINESE NEW YEAR

Filipinos’ belief in luck continues to influence their shopping habits, with products tied to prosperity seeing sharp sales growth in the weeks leading up to the Chinese New Year, according to a new study by tech startup Packworks. Analyzing more than...

LENT BEGINS

RETURN TO DUST Along with the festivities this month comes the period of Lent. On Sunday Fr. Robert Reyes, parish priest of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Quezon City, leads the burning of palm fronds, its ashes to be used on Ash Wednesday.

BATO, GO, 6 OTHERS BARED AS DUTERTE ‘CO-PERPETRATORS’

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says the ex-president, the two senators and the others served as the ‘hierarchy’ of the drug war that had authority over the hit men involved in the killings originating from the Davao Death Squad....

METRO SUBWAY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE–MARCOS

President Marcos on Friday said the timetable for the Metro Manila Subway project is ahead of schedule, as he led the groundbreaking ceremony of its Kalayaan Avenue and Bonifacio Global City (BGC) stations in Taguig City. “I join with you in our...

ANTIDYNASTY BILL TESTED THROUGH ‘CONSULTATIONS’

What happens when you ask a constituency born and raised under the leadership of one family about an antidynasty law? One response is strong resistance, as the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms found out on Thursday during its first...

DFA: CHINA TRAVEL BAN DOESN’T HELP BUILD TIES

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday expressed dismay over the travel ban announced by China against several Philippine local officials who declared Chinese Ambassador Jing Quan persona non grata last month, saying it will only hurt...

SOFT ‘MARBLE’

Philippine National Police chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. (from left), Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla and Customs Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno inspect P278 million worth of “shabu” (crystal meth), declared as “marble,” at the Manila...

SARA BLASTS AKBAYAN, RISA OVER IMPEACH RAPS

Vice President Sara Duterte dismisses the Akbayan impeachment complaint as just a piece of paper that lacks evidence and is intended for ‘politically motivated’ harassment. She says it is meant to advance and support the presidential ambition of...

JUNKING OF MARCOS RAPS SEEN AFFECTING VP CASE

The reasons presented by the House justice committee to dismiss the two impeachment cases against President Marcos could affect the outcome of the new complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte, which are expected to be deliberated in the coming...

SOTTO ‘THWARTS’ SENATE COUP; TERM-SHARE WITH LEGARDA ON THE TABLE

Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said he and his allies “thwarted” an attempt to have him unseated, but that a term-sharing agreement between him and Sen. Loren Legarda was now being explored. Sotto confirmed that there was a plan to...

FRASCO GRILLED IN SENATE ON ‘SELF-PROMO’ DOT ADS

The face that launched a thousand tourism brochures. That’s the charge Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco had to answer when a senator confronted her over the repeated use of her image in the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) promotional...

TWO IMPEACH RAPS FILED VS VP AS 1-YEAR BAR ENDS

Civil society leaders and progressive groups on Monday filed two separate impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte, citing betrayal of public trust over the alleged misuse of confidential funds, culpable violations of the...

FAIRY-LIKE STREET DANCERS OPEN BAGUIO’S PANAGBENGA

BAGUIO CITY—Children rose before dawn on Sunday to open the 30th staging of the Baguio Flower Festival, filling Session Road with fairy-like street dancers and the stirring notes of the Panagbenga hymn. Starting at 8 a.m., grade school performers...

TOURISTS’ CLAMOR: BETTER INFRA, NOT JUST PROMOS

Filipino travel advocates say that spending money on the archipelago’s ferry services, road network and airports, and better training for tourist guides, will attract more foreign visitors than using taxpayer money on ever-changing tourism campaign...

GO: PHILIPPINE 2025 GDP ‘NOT A DISASTER’

Finance Secretary Frederick Go has maintained that the Philippines’ lackluster economic growth in the last quarter of 2025 is “not a disaster,” pointing to strong macroeconomic fundamentals that remain in place. On Thursday, data showed the Philippine...

SC STILL UNANIMOUS: VP IMPEACHMENT VOID

The Supreme Court affirmed its July 2025 decision declaring that the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte was unconstitutional for violating the constitutional bar against initiating more than one impeachment against the same official within a...

EDCOM 2 TO DEPED: END STUDENT ‘MASS PROMOTION’

The Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) is calling for the phaseout of a system that has encouraged what it called the “de facto mass promotion” of public school students despite the lack of skills required to advance to higher grade...

PH HOSTS ASEAN TOURISM FORUM IN CEBU

CEBU—The Department of Tourism (DOT) on Tuesday said the Philippines stands to gain significant economic, tourism, and investment benefits as it hosts the 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Tourism Forum (ATF) 2026, calling it a major...

18 DIE, OVER 300 RESCUED AS FERRY SINKS OFF BASILAN

least 18 people, among them a 6-monthold baby, died while more than 300 others were rescued when a passenger ferry bound for Jolo, Sulu, sank in the waters off Basilan province early Monday, reports from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and local...

DANCE FOR THE HOLY CHILD

Hundreds of Catholic devotees in Iloilo City gather outside the San Jose Placer Parish Church on Saturday night to join a worship dance (“sadsad”), as part of Iloilo’s celebration of the Child Jesus, together with several other Santo Niño celebrations...

KEEP WALKING

LIGHT AS A FEATHER Performers come in self-illuminating costumes, like this group donning a winged headdress to complete the look, at the ILOmination street dance competition as part of the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City on Friday night. The...

REVILLA QUESTIONS RAPS; ARRAIGNMENT DEFERRED

Citing lack of due process, former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. on Friday moved to throw out the malversation case against him in connection with an alleged P92 million “ghost” flood control project in Bulacan. The motion to quash was filed by...

2 NEW IMPEACH RAPS VS MARCOS HIT A SNAG

A dispute over the submission of two more impeachment complaints against President Marcos has raised a cloud over whether they could even reach the committee in the House of Representatives that leads impeachment deliberations and are in danger of...

2ND PLUNDER RAP VS SARA ALSO CITES ‘DRUG MONEY’

Vice President Sara Duterte is facing another set of complaints for plunder and other crimes over her alleged misuse of confidential funds (CFs) when she was secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) and mayor of Davao City. It marked the...

CITY JAIL FOR REVILLA, 6 OTHERS IN FLOOD MESS

Seven years after his 2018 acquittal in a case arising from the pork barrel scam, former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. is back in jail, this time for graft and malversation charges over a flood control project in Bulacan. The Sandiganbayan antigraft...

DOJ: ONLY 14 VALIDATED AS TRUE ‘GHOST’ INFRA PROJECTS

Of 421 projects initially tagged as “ghost” flood control projects, only 14 so far have been confirmed to be truly nonexistent, according to Fredderick Vida, acting chief of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Vida gave this update at the resumption of...