Alibaba’s Ma steps down as industry faces uncertainty

BEIJING — Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China’s online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world’s biggest e-commerce company Tuesday at...

No reappointment for Faeldon: Duterte

MANILA — For President Rodrigo Duterte, dismissed Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Nicanor Faeldon has had enough controversies to be given a new position in his Cabinet....

8 deals signed in Duterte-Yacob bilateral meeting

MANILA — Eight agreements were signed between the Philippines and Singapore during the state visit of Singapore’s first female President Halimah Yacob to Manila on Monday. In...

27 BuCor officials suspended over GCTA controversy

Twenty-seven officials of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) have been suspended for six months without pay over the questionable release of heinous crime convicts under the...

PTFoMS condemns attack on Abante’s printing plant

MANILA — The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) on Monday strongly denounced the vicious attack by still unidentified men on the printing plant of the...

PNP informs Interpol of arrest warrant vs. Joma

Panelo to suggest to PRRD banning internet in Bilibid

MANILA — Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said he will suggest to President Rodrigo Duterte to consider banning mobile and cutting internet signal in the New Bilibid Prison...

PH enjoins int’l community to keep IHL spirit ‘alive’

MANILA — The Philippine government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), on Monday urged foreign states to advocate and keep the spirit of International Humanitarian Law...

Syrian court finds Demafelis employer guilty of murder

MANILA — The co-accused in the slaying of Filipina household worker Joanna Demafelis was found guilty of murder by the Syrian District Criminal Court, the Department of...