Ex-DOF official Andutan gets more jail time over tax credit fraud
MANILA, Philippines – The Sandiganbayan has convicted Uldarico Andutan Jr., former deputy executive director of the Department of Finance (DOF)’s now-defunct One-Stop Shop Inter-Agency Tax Credit and...
View ArticleJames Earl Jones, renowned actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93
LOS ANGELES, USA – American actor James Earl Jones, an imposing stage and screen presence who overcame a childhood stutter to develop a stentorian voice recognized the world over as intergalactic...
View ArticleLIVESTREAM: House holds 2nd round of 2025 budget deliberations for Sara...
MANILA, Philippines – The House appropriations committee tackles the proposed budget of the Office of the Vice President for the second time on Tuesday, September 10, after Vice President Sara...
View ArticleDozens killed, wounded in Israeli strikes on tent camp in Gaza
CAIRO, Egypt – Israeli airstrikes on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians killed and wounded 65 people in southern Gaza, the enclave’s civil emergency service said early on Tuesday, September 10, as...
View ArticleBeyonce’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ shut out of Country Music Award nominations
LOS ANGELES, USA – Voters for the Country Music Awards snubbed superstar singer Beyonce’s album Cowboy Carter and showered singer Morgan Wallen with seven nominations on Monday, September 9. Wallen...
View ArticlePH men’s football team taps Albert Capellas as new head coach
MANILA, Philippines – It did not take long for the Philippine men’s national football team to find its newest head coach. Just two weeks since the surprise departure of Tom Saintfiet, the team on...
View ArticleSara Duterte accuses House leaders; House defers OVP budget again | The wRap
Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: Sara Duterte accuses Romualdez, Co of meddling in 2023 DepEd budget Vice President Sara Duterte accuses House...
View ArticleThompson, Ginebra send Blackwater crashing back to earth; Rain or Shine whips...
MANILA, Philippines – Scottie Thompson hardly looked like a player who is not at 100% as he delivered an MVP-type performance for Barangay Ginebra. Thompson racked up a triple-double of 21 points, 11...
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Tropical depression outside PAR now a tropical storm named Bebinca
MANILA, Philippines – The tropical depression outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) strengthened into a tropical storm while passing close to the United States island territory of Guam...
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DFA Apostille Receiving Center opens in Ilocos Norte
(This is a press release from Robinsons Land Corporation.) Kablaaw, Ilocos! Here’s some exciting news for mallgoers in the north: the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Consular Office in Ilocos...
View ArticleUS government demands overhaul of Israeli conduct in West Bank after killing...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday, September 10, demanded an overhaul of Israeli military conduct in the occupied West Bank as they decried the fatal...
View ArticleMicrosoft hosts cybersecurity summit after global IT outage
Microsoft held a summit on Tuesday, September 10, to discuss steps to improve cybersecurity systems, after a faulty software update from CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage in July. The conference...
View ArticleStart your financial resolutions early with these goal-setting tips from...
New year, new you. It’s a familiar mantra that people usually say at the start of the year. But instead of waiting for January after you have received and spent all your Christmas bonus and additional...
View ArticleHarris, Trump go on the attack in first debate’s opening moments
PHILADELPHIA, USA – Republican Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris immediately went on the offensive in the opening segment of their first presidential debate on Tuesday,...
View ArticlePharrell’s animated biopic populated by LEGOs
TORONTO, Canada – The flesh-and-blood Pharrell Williams walked the red carpet on Tuesday, September 10 with the star of his new animated biopic—a Pharrell Williams made of LEGO blocks—as Piece by...
View ArticleDanish firm allots $3 billion for 1GW offshore wind project, first in PH
MANILA, Philippines – A Danish firm is investing $3 billion for the 1-gigawatt (GW) San Miguel Bay offshore wind power project in Camarines Sur, targetting to deliver electricity within the term of...
View ArticleLIVE UPDATES: 2024 PVL Invitational Conference final – Creamline vs Cignal
MANILA, Philippines – After a frantic, tiring eight-day blitz, the PVL is once again hosting a knockout final as the exhausted, yet ever-brilliant Creamline Cool Smashers and Cignal HD Spikers fight...
View ArticlePeru’s Fujimori, divisive head of political dynasty, dies age 86
LIMA, Peru – Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist rebels,...
View ArticleBucloc, Abra mayor found guilty of graft
MANILA, Philippines – The Sandiganbayan has found Bucloc, Abra Mayor Gody Cardenas guilty of graft for skirting rules on hiring a consultant for a local government project 13 years ago. In a 66-page...
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[Vantage Point] Fears raised for KOJC’s Quiboloy winning in a corrupt...
Cult leader Apollo Quiboloy, the self-proclaimed “Son of God” and founder of the million-strong Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) is now in the custody of the state. But does it really matter whether he...
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