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MANILA, Philippines — The defense panel in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte has forgone cross-examining a Philippine National Police Firearms and Explosives Office (PNP-FEO) official after it was established that the supposed price of Duterte’s firearms was market value, not acquisition cost. During the resumption of the trial on Monday, Duterte’s lawyer Carlo Joaquin

MANILA, Philippines — A University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman committee condemned the “continuous red-tagging, harassment, and intimidation” of its constituents, particularly students, by agents and supporters of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac). The UP Diliman Committee on the Protection of Academic Freedom and Human Rights said on Monday,

MANILA, Philippines—Influenza-like illness (ILI) remained the most frequently reported among diseases in Manila, with 18 new cases recorded on Monday, bringing the city’s year-to-date total to 1,955, according to the latest W.I.L.D. diseases report covering water-borne diseases, influenza, leptospirosis and dengue.  The report, based on data extracted from the Electronic Disease Case Surveillance and Information

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Manases “Mans” Carpio, have over 50 guns registered under their names, a witness told the Senate impeachment court on Monday. READ: Sara Duterte’s ‘undisclosed’ guns to be taken up in trial According to Maj. Jerickson Sangalang of the Philippine National Police (PNP) firearms and explosives

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has described Vice President Sara Duterte as a “buwaon”, or liar, over her claim that the administration is desperate to bring her down, according to Palace Press Officer Claire Castro. At a briefing on Monday, Castro was asked to react to Duterte’s denial of allegations made by dismissed police corporal and

China’s top state research body has put artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies at the heart of its new five-year plan, unveiled on Monday, as global competition in science and technology heats up. The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s highest academic institution, laid out a detailed blueprint for research and technology development aligned with the country’s 15th five-year plan covering 2026 to 2030. The plan focuses on innovation in areas including artificial intelligence...

MANILA, Philippines – PMaj. Joericson Sangalang of the Philippine National Police Firearms and Explosives Office (PNP-FEO) takes his oath as a prosecution witness in Article II of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial. His testimony focuses on more than 50 firearms owned by Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, with a total value of

MANILA, Philippines — The government has provided financial and livelihood assistance to Mary Jane Veloso and her family after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. granted her an absolute pardon, according to Malacañang. In a briefing on Monday, Palace press officer Claire Castro said personnel from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) field office in

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) deployed personnel and vehicles to assist commuters and maintain peace and order as transport groups hold a three-day strike over rising fuel prices. In a statement on Monday, PNP chief Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. ordered police units to increase their presence at transport terminals, major roads, convergence

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

President Xi Jinping has ordered China’s security and legal apparatus to relentlessly eliminate risks and build a “safer” country a year ahead of the pivotal 21st Communist Party congress, which will usher in a major leadership reshuffle. The latest instruction, published by state news agency Xinhua on Monday night, is also the Chinese leader’s first major domestic directive since his state visit to Washington last week, signalling a pivot back to the domestic agenda – especially stability. In a...

MANILA, Philippines – Some senator-judges shared on Monday their qualms about the relevance of tackling the firearms owned by Vice President Sara Duterte as the impeachment court continued examining her alleged unexplained wealth. The senator-judges questioned the importance of the House prosecution panel’s presentation of Police Major Joericson Sangalang of the Philippine National Police Firearms