PEOPLE line up outside the Commission on Elections office in Quezon City on July 8 to register as voters for the supposed Dec. 2022 barangay and youth council elections. — PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMANTHE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday said the planned National

BRAZIL training at Juventus Center, Turin, Italy, Nov. 15, 2022 — REUTERSTHE 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar kicks off on Sunday (Monday, Manila time) when the host nation plays Ecuador in Group A.Twenty-eight days and 63 games later, one of 32 nations will lift

TEN-PLAYER Filipinas yield to host Chile in second friendly, 1-0. — FILIPINAS FACEBOOK PAGETEN-PLAYER Philippines conceded a 1-0 defeat to host Chile in their second friendly capping its South America training camp yesterday morning (Manila time) at the Estadio Municipal de la Pintana in Santiago.Karen

EFFORTS to tap Justin Brownlee as Gilas Pilipinas naturalized player took a step forward as the House Committee on Justice approved on first reading the bill seeking his Philippine citizenship yesterday.Looking dapper in a barong, Mr. Brownlee appeared before members of the committee as it

Games  Thursday(Smart Araneta Coliseum)11 a.m. — DLSU vs AdU1 p.m. — UE VS NU3 p.m. — UP VS FEU6:30 p.m. — UST vs ADMUWITH one seat already taken in the Final Four, the race for the three remaining chairs heats up featuring multiple squads with

EUGENE Torre, Asia’s first GM, was elected deputy chair of the FIDE Athletes Commission. — PHILSTAR FILE PHOTOTHE INTERNATIONAL Chess Federation (FIDE) appointed three Filipinos, Grandmaster (GM) Eugene Torre, International Arbiter Toti Abundo and national para team coach James Infiesto, to various commissions or working

Games Thursday(Mall of Asia Arena)2:30 p.m. — Chery Tiggo vs PLDT5:30 p.m. — Choco Mucho vs CreamlineEXPECT a record crowd as Creamline clashes with sister team Choco Mucho in a crucial Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference elimination round game at the MOA Arena.While the Cool

1 of 2MARIA Mae Ballester pocketed two gold medals in arnis while wrestler Alliah Rose Gavales proved her worth by climbing the podium in two junior cadet weight categories in the 8th Philippine Sports Commission Women’s Martial Arts Festival (PSC WMA) at the Rizal Memorial

GERT STOCKMANS-UNSPLASHConspiracy theorists warn of nefarious efforts, mainly science-based, by wealthy industrialists to deliberately cut the global population, as a way of saving the planet. I don’t give much credibility to such theories as I also doubt very much if war, plague, pandemic, hunger, or

DELEGATES at the United Nations COP27 climate conference this month have been seeking to understand why the world is failing to raise the cash needed for emerging countries to prepare for climate change. The answers are visible all around them. Egypt — home to Sharm el-Sheikh,

NEIL WEBB-UNSPLASHThe anti-Iranian government protests continue, and with greater intensity and international support. It is now mid-November and the protests were triggered by the death of a 22-year-old Iranian woman while in custody of the morality police.As expected, the reported death toll in the violent