Over 200 families feared buried by mudslides in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A massive landslide triggered by torrential rains buried homes in three villages in the central hills of Sri Lanka, and more than...

Fort McMurray evacuation begins third week with no sign of return to normalcy

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – As the massive evacuation of a northern Alberta city enters its third week today, residents of Fort McMurray and workers at oilsands...

Liberals unveil plan to outlaw transgender hate speech, discrimination

OTTAWA – For years, transgender Canadians had to come up with creative arguments in front of courts and commissions to link discrimination against them with existing...

Health advocacy group lauds Duterte’s plan to implement nationwide smoking ban

MANILA – HealthJustice Philippines, a public health policy think tank and Bloomberg Awardee for Global Tobacco Control, welcomed on Tuesday presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that...

MMDA to motorists: Roads closed along Commonwealth Avenue due to INC medical mission

MANILA – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Tuesday advised the commuters and motorists to take alternative routes and refrain from passing through Commonwealth Avenue...

Duterte admin wants cost-efficient gov’t operation

DAVAO CITY – The incoming administration of presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte will be fast and cost-efficient with a plan to scale down expenditures particularly on seminar...

DILG lauds PNP for generally peaceful May 9 polls

Marcos to ask Comelec for system audit of AES

MANILA – The camp of vice presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. is set to ask the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to open the Automated...

Well-decorated military officer eyed as next AFP chief

Duterte names two more officials as future Cabinet secretaries

DAVAO CITY – Presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte named two more of his supporters who will join his would-be cabinet after June 30. Duterte named former North...