There are 187 reclamation projects across the archipelago, according to a master list of approved, pending, and ongoing dump-and-fill ventures of the Philippine Reclamation Authority.

"To conclude that the blocking was not due to the NTC Memorandum is simply an irrational insistence to ignore what is already obvious," the Quezon City court said.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert status of Bulusan a few days after it placed Mayon Volcano in Albay under Alert Level 2 after exhibiting “increasing unrest.”

A commuter group is calling on the government to impose taxes on motorcycle (MC) taxi companies to help fund the government’s Libreng Sakay program.

Over a week since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. left the country unannounced to watch the Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore, questions on how it was funded remain unanswered.

“We should be sensitive sa mga needs ng ating mga nurses. Kailangan natin silang alagaan at tratuhin nang maayos. We should be fair. Importante din na gamitin ang common sense in addressing their needs,” he said.

From being excluded in the rankings last year, Ateneo leapt to the 351-400 bracket while UP, the country’s premiere state university, sank to the 801-1000 bracket from the 601-800 bracket last year.

“The report of 'tourist blacklist' is misinformation. China has not placed the Philippines on its blacklist for tourism,” the Chinese Embassy in Manila said in a statement.

Maymay was last spotted 305 kilometers east of Baler in Aurora, moving southwest very slowly.

The Department of Health may recommend to President Marcos the lifting of the state of public health emergency due to COVID-19 if three conditions are met, an official said yesterday.