DAVAO CIO PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte's daughter on Sunday said running for vice-president next year was an opportunity to meet halfway her supporters, who wanted her to run for president. "I have thousands of supporters

MAINTENANCE workers from the Pasig local government disinfected an isolation booth of a quarantine facility at the Caruncho stadium before it got dismantled on Nov. 11. -- PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCASTHE LOCKDOWN level in Metro Manila could be eased further to Alert Level 1 next

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS A PROPER disposal plan should be drafted and strictly implemented, environmental experts said, as government mulls ending the use of face shields for the general public, the only country in

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMAN A LAWMAKER from the progressive Makabayan bloc said that a recent resolution by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that would increase the allowances of public school teachers serving election

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS THE GOVERNMENT should focus on information-based methods to address vaccine hesitancy, a senator said, rather than imposing coercive regulations. "Since day one, the government's so-called solution on issues surrounding

COOPERATIVES in southern and central Philippines are moving along the digital path with plans to set up a specialized technology service enterprise in Mindanao, while small and micro co-ops in Central Visayas have

PIXABAY The Provincial Government of South Cotabato has a delicate balancing act to do. Nearly 10 years ago, it banned open pit mining in its territory. Xstrata, an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company, was ready

PIXABAYRising teenage pregnancy in the Philippines is now a national social emergency. The 2017 National Demographic and Health Survey showed that one out of 10 women between the ages 15 and 19 was childbearing. Similarly, 200,000 teenage girls in the Philippines give birth every year. This

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS The national inflation rate is too high for comfort. It stood at 4.9% and 4.8% in August and September, respectively, and eased to 4.6% in October. The Economic Intelligence Units

PEXELS-PIXABAY FOR ALL THE WEEKS of negotiation and hard-headed diplomacy that go into the text of an international agreement, the words that result in the end aren't a magic spell. Whether the communique resulting from

REUTERS GLASGOW -- United Nations (U.N.) climate talks ended Saturday with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries lobbed last-minute

WASHINGTON -- The US military covered up 2019 airstrikes in Syria that killed up to 64 women and children, a possible war crime, during the battle against Islamic State, the New York Times