MANILA: Philippine security officials said on Monday (Jan 20) that they had arrested a Chinese software engineer suspected of spying on Filipino military and police camps. The arrest comes as maritime confrontations between the Philippines and China, over contested reefs and waters in the strategic South China Sea, have escalated in recent months. China claims most … Read more
MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos denounced on Monday (Jan 20) a proposed law to make sex education mandatory in schools in the conservative mainly Catholic nation, alleging it would teach 4-year-olds to pleasure themselves. Marcos vowed to veto the Bill in the event it hurdles Congress, blaming people with a “woke” mentality for what he said … Read more
“If you had told me 10 years ago that I’d be interviewing about Greenland, I would not have put that high up on my list of possible topics the media would be interested in,” says historian John C. Mitcham of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. “But it is also really fascinating, somewhat troubling too, that we’re … Read more
MANILA: Schools and government offices will close and thousands of police will be deployed on Monday (Jan 13) to oversee a planned “million-strong” rally by an influential religious group opposing calls to unseat Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, officials said. The security preparations were announced on Friday ahead of the “national rally for peace” by … Read more
MANILA: Around 400 foreign nationals were arrested on Wednesday (Jan 8) in a “large-scale” raid on a suspected online scam farm in Manila, the national immigration agency said. Authorities raided a building and found workers allegedly engaged in online scam operations targeting victims abroad. International concern has grown in recent years over similar scam operations in … Read more
A UNITED Airlines business class passenger has been banned from flying after they allegedly peed on a stranger during a long-haul flight. Jerome Gutierrez was travelling from San Francisco to Manila, Philippines when a fellow passenger got up from his seat and started to pee on him some four hours after takeoff. 1 The shocking incident … Read more
Chef Carlo Lamagna’s journey has been full of twists and turns. But Denver has been in his plans for about a decade. Last month, those plans came to fruition when he opened Magna Kainan, a modern Filipino restaurant at the base of Novel RiNo, a luxury residential highrise. Magna Kainan is a sister concept to … Read more
MANILA: A senior Philippine police official said on Friday (Dec 6) that an American kidnapped in the southern part of the country was most likely dead, with authorities still searching for those involved in his abduction. American Elliot Eastman was abducted by four unidentified men from his home on Oct 17 in Mindanao, a southern island … Read more
IF YOU’VE ever wanted to stay inside the world’s biggest chicken – this is your chance. A hotel resort in the Philippines has built a giant building shaped like a chicken and now travellers can come home to roost. 6 A large chicken shaped hotel has opened in the PhilippinesCredit: Instagram 6 The large chicken … Read more
The structures housed around 2,000 families, according to the fire department. Village resident Leonila Abiertas, 65, lost almost all her possessions, but managed to save her late husband’s ashes. “I only got the urn with the ashes of my husband,” a crying Abiertas told AFP. “I really don’t know how I can start my life … Read more
