People flock to Manila North Cemetery to visit the tombs of their departed loved ones on All Saints’ Day, November 1, 2025.(Contributed Photo) More than 1.9 million people visited Manila’s cemeteries over the All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day weekend, as the Manila Police District (MPD) reported a peaceful and …
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Garbage seen in cemeteries during the commemoration of UNDAS in November 2025 (EcoWaste Coalition / Release) MANILA, Philippines — Plastic waste topped the list of trash left by visitors in cemeteries nationwide during Undas, according to monitoring by the EcoWaste Coalition. According to the group’s statement on Sunday, November 2, …
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President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. delivered his speech at Villamor Air Base on Nov. 14, 2022 after attending the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summit and related summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (STAR / KJ Rosales) MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called for a peaceful protest ahead of the …
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Photo uploaded on social media on Oct. 30, 2025 shows laborers working double time to contain the wastewater spill in Negros Oriental after a 20-hectare lagoon wall belonging to Universal Robina Corporation’s (URC) Bais Distillery failed and released ethanol wastewater into the coastal waters of Bais Bay, threatening marine life …
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President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. answers questions from the members of the press during a Kapihan with the Philippine media delegation after attending the APEC 2025 Korea on Nov. 1, 2025, at Signiel Busan, Haeundae, Busan, South Korea. (YUMMIE DINGDING / PPA POOL) BUSAN, South Korea — President Marcos said …
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (Presidential Photojournalists Association) BUSAN, South Korea – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. returned to Manila on Sunday (Nov. 2) after what he called a “very productive” Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Gyeongju, where leaders tackled global trade, artificial intelligence (AI) and climate action amid rising geopolitical …
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Passengers line up for immigration authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) (Jean Mangaluz / Philstar.com) MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Friday, October 31, said it intercepted several human trafficking victims bound for Cambodia, including a man who had been blackmailed. The human trafficking victims, …
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File photo showing a man with a hoodie jacket in a computer (AFP / File) MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Sunday, November 2, warned the public of a possible cyberattack in the form of a “traffic flood.” In a Facebook post, the DICT …
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National Expenditure Program 2026 (PNA photo by Avito Dalan) BUSAN, South Korea – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has expressed confidence that the government will craft “a good, clean budget” for 2026 as Congress resumes deliberations on the proposed national spending plan. Speaking to reporters here after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) …
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Education Secretary Juan Edgardo ‘Sonny’ Angara (Courtesy: DepEd Philippines) Education Secretary Sonny Angara has vowed to reform the Department of Education’s (DepEd) participation in interagency bodies through the Office of the President’s education cluster to address the near doubling of functionally illiterate Filipinos in the past three decades. This came …
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