Miss Universe 2016 candidates make brief stopover at Navy HQ

MANILA—Officers, enlisted personnel and civilian employees detailed at Philippine Navy (PN) headquarters in Naval Station Jose Andrada, Roxas Boulevard, Manila got a glimpse of the beautiful...

Group calls for renaming of NAIA back to MIA

MANILA—A group has called for the renaming of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport back to Manila International Airport. At the Usaping Balita media forum on Thursday,...

President Duterte’s letter to Pope Francis a ‘diplomatic move’, says Catholic priest

MANILA—A Catholic priest said that President Rodrigo Duterte is being “diplomatic” when he wrote a letter to Pope Francis. “He is being diplomatic,” said Fr. online...

BI defers over 45,000 departures of passengers in 2016

MANILA—More than 45,000 departures of passengers were deferred by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) last year for failure to comply with the government’s requirements for departing...

Trillanes wants online trolls, fake news probed

MANILA—Amid the spread of fake news on social media, Sen. Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV on Wednesday sought for a probe on “trolls” which he claimed used...

S. Cotabato to honor B’laan ‘National Living Treasure’

Some 1,393 informal settler families transferred to housing sites in 2016, says interior dept

MANILA –The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) last year transferred 1,393 informal settler families (ISFs) to three housing projects, as part of its...

Inaugural crowds sure to be huge but how huge?

WASHINGTON—Donald Trump says his inauguration will have “an unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout.” Organizers of a protest the next day call it the biggest demonstration in history...

Over 300 Chinese nationals earlier arrested in Clark, Pampanga already deported –BI

MANILA –More than 200 Chinese nationals who were earlier arrested for illegally working in an online gambling facility inside the Fontana Leisure Parks and Casino in...

U.S. braces for Trump’s inauguration amid doubts, protests, partisan fights

WASHINGTON—Partisan feud fuels, confidence floundering, marches and protests on the way, while hundreds of thousands of supporters for Donald Trump’s White House also being rallied to...