MANILA, Philippines— Only four of the 15 food service contracts awarded by Davao City to a corporation linked to Vice President Sara Duterte went through public bidding, an official of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) said on Monday. The rest, according to prosecution witness and PhilGEPS Electronic Government Procurement Operations Division chief Rendell
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Senator Rodante Marcoleta"s defense team maintained that the money he admitted to receiving was part of his campaign contributions, but the prosecution argued that the lawmaker paid a tax that suggested otherwise.
A Vietnamese pro-democracy organisation has alleged that two of its members, who hold Norwegian and Australian citizenship, were abducted in Cambodia and taken to the border with Vietnam, where Hanoi authorities later accused them of illegally entering the country. Vietnam has charged the two men, along with a third alleged member of the organisation, with terrorism and document forgery, saying they were caught crossing the border from Cambodia with forged identity documents. The organisation,...
For a decade, foreign policy circles have treated war between the United States and China as something close to destiny. The theory has a fancy, fashionable name borrowed from ancient Greece: the “Thucydides Trap” – the idea that a rising power and an established one are fated to collide, the way two articulated lorries merging into a single lane rarely ends well. The term is widely used in commentaries on US-China relations. Frictions get written off as “inevitable” regardless of what actually...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Tuesday flagged alleged "palakasan," or patronage in National Housing Authority (NHA) housing projects, particularly for calamity and tragedy victims.
EJ Obiena delivers the Philippines' third gold medal in the 2026 Asian Games as he breaks his own record to repeat as men's pole vault champion
Cinema '76 Film Society and Cinema '76 Café are set to close their doors after nearly 11 years of bringing together Filipino film lovers, independent filmmakers, and moviegoers.
The dozens of unverifiable beneficiaries of the senior high school voucher program resulted in an overpayment of P938,000, according to state auditors
Lawyer Michael Poa, spokesperson for Vice President Sara Duterte's defense team, on Tuesday denied agreeing with Duterte's spokesperson Paolo Panelo, who described as a joke the Senate impeachment court's decision on the basis for determining the voting threshold for her conviction.
PM praises minister's good work, says no apparent reason to step down.
Beijing and Washington should first develop a common language around AI risks rather than seek to resolve their broader technology rivalry, a leading Chinese think tank has advised. The call from the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, comes days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump agreed to formalise a new AI dialogue mechanism during their summit in Washington, their second such meeting...