Category: NATIONAL

MANILA – Three suspects in the kidnapping and killing of Filipino-Chinese businessman Anson Que and his driver, Armanie Pabillo, are now under police custody, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has reported. The PNP also confirmed that two other foreign nationals, believed to be key figures in the crime, remain at large. They were allegedly present at…

MANILA – Government agencies and offices that have requested to participate in the local absentee voting (LAV) have started receiving the official ballots for the May 12 polls. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairperson George Erwin Garcia said Thursday that the deployment of the official ballots for the LAV started on Wednesday. He said personnel who…

MANILA – Train operations of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1), the Light Rail Transit Line 2 (LRT-2), and the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) will be suspended from April 17 (Maundy Thursday) to April 20 (Easter Sunday) as part of their annual maintenance activities during the long Holy Week break.“This Holy Week…

The relentless efforts of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to secure the freedom of 17 Filipinos in Qatar led to the dismissal of the illegal assembly charges against them, Presidential Communications Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said on Monday.Castro announced after President Marcos met with Qatari Ambassador Ahmed Saad Al Homidi in Malacañang.…

The decision by several Cabinet officials to skip a Senate hearing on the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte was a valid exercise of executive privilege and well within constitutional bounds, a House of Representatives leader said. House Assistant Majority Leader and Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre said invoking executive privilege to excuse Cabinet officials…

The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has assured its full readiness to activate its contingency plan to assist and protect overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan as tension with China continues to escalate. In a statement on Friday, Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac said the DMW is in close coordination with Manila Economic and…

Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac on Thursday announced the provisional release of the 17 Filipinos arrested in Qatar for illegal assembly. “We are very, very thankful to the Qatari authorities, to the Qatari government for allowing the provisional release of the 17 as the investigations proceed,” Cacdac said in a press…

The President and other high-ranking officials enjoy executive privilege and are not required to appear before congressional hearings, according to a Palace official. This was in response to Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa‘s statement complaining about the non-appearance of executive officials during the second Senate hearing on the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte by the…