South East Asia

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Robinhood Padilla on Sunday said abolishing the party-list system should be a top priority should Congress decide to form a constitutional convention (con-con) as a way to amend the 1987 Constitution. The neophyte senat...

Even if Liza Soberano has been working for 13 years, she believes that she finally reached the point in her life where she feels empowered to take control of herself — especially when it comes to her personal decisions and career. Just days after fo...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people and said he was forced to take into account Nato's nuclear capabilities. A yea...

MANILA, Philippines--La Salle outlasted University of Santo Tomas, 25-20, 16-25, 25-8, 15-25, 16-14, on Sunday at the UAAP Season 85 women's volleyball tournament at the Mall of Asia Arena.Rookie Angel Canino delivered 16 attacks out of her 18 points ...

Puerto Rico's Subriel Matias defeated Jeremias Ponce of Argentina by technical knockout to claim the vacant IBF junior welterweight crown on Saturday.A bruising all-action battle at The Armory in Minneapolis ended soon after Matias sent Ponce to the c...

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis of Sweden set a new world pole vault record of 6.22 meters at an indoor meeting in France on Saturday, describing it as "almost an out-of-body experience." Olympic champion Duplantis improved his own record of 6.21...

MANILA, Philippines--University of the Philippines outlasted defending, nine-time UAAP Softball champion Adamson in a match that lasted for 11 innings with a 3-2 walk-off victory Saturday at UP Diliman Baseball Field.Entering the contest, both the Fightin...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — In a span of 20 minutes, police in Cebu City were able to confiscate 2.6 kilos of suspected shabu worth P17.7 million in two separate buy-bust operations in Barangays Basak San Nicolas and Bulacao Pardo on Saturday night, Fe...

MANILA, Philippines---F2 Logistics notched its fourth season win in the Premiere Volleyball League's All-Filipino Conference on Saturday against Cignal but Cargo Mover Kim Kianna Dy had another win of her own---gaining back her confidence.In the Cargo...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — PMI Bohol Boxing Stable's pride Regie "The Filipino Phenom" Suganob put on a masterful performance against Mark "Rasta Mac" Vicelles despite an anticlimactic eighth round stoppage in their much-awaited wo...

MANAMA---Formula One champion Red Bull wrapped up the third and final day of pre-season testing at Bahrain's Sakhir circuit on Saturday with Mexican Sergio Perez setting the fastest lap of the week.Perez's time of one minute 30.305 seconds was 0.3...

Daniil Medvedev maintained his winning roll to beat Andy Murray in the Qatar Open final and claim his second title in successive weeks on Saturday.Veteran Murray, bidding for his 47th career title but first since 2019, pushed the Russian hard but succumbe...

MANAMA--- Ferrari's Charles Leclerc topped the morning timesheets on the final day of Formula One's pre-season test in Bahrain on Saturday but said Red Bull remained the team to beat.The Monegasque lapped the Sakhir circuit with a fastest time of ...

MANILA, Philippines--There's this strong compulsion for Christine Ubaldo to show up with her finest form each time the Far Eastern University setter hits the floor.Playing for renowned setter and now FEU coach Tina Salak, Ubaldo didn't disappoint ...

Elon Musk's Twitter Inc. laid off dozens of employees on Saturday, February 25, in what is at least the eighth round of job cuts since Musk took over the social network in late October, the Information reported. The job cuts impacted multiple engineer...

Julius Randle scored a game-high 28 points and Mitchell Robinson posted a double-double Saturday night for the host New York Knicks, who continued surging and never trailed in a 128-106 rout of the New Orleans Pelicans.Robinson had 11 points on 5-of-5 sho...

Lauri Markkanen scored 27 points and the Utah Jazz dug out of a 14-point deficit en route to a 118-102 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night in Salt Lake City.The new-look Jazz got another nice contribution off the bench from Kris Dunn, who...

The Memphis Grizzlies held the visiting Denver Nuggets to just their seventh outing with fewer than 100 points en route to a 112-94 rout on Saturday.Memphis snapped Western Conference-leading Denver's four-game winning streak emphatically, capitalizin...

MANILA, Philippines--Carlos Yulo missed the opportunity to secure a medal in the men's floor exercise and rings event of the 2023 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, Germany.The Filipino gymnastics ace failed to make it to the finals of both...

The Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER) has accused Darryl Yap of using the footage from their documentary "Sa Ngalan ng Tubo" for the controversial filmmaker's upcoming film "Martyr or Murderer" without its c...

Jayson Tatum hit a game-winning 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds remaining to lift the Boston Celtics past the host Philadelphia 76ers, 110-107, on Saturday.Joel Embiid appeared to send the game into overtime with a 75-foot 3-pointer, but the ball was ruled to ...

Pascal Siakam scored 29 points and the visiting Toronto Raptors defeated the Detroit Pistons 95-91 Saturday afternoon.Gary Trent Jr. added 19 points for the Raptors, who have won four in a row for the first time this season.Toronto has won the first three...

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Lawyer Regal Oliva made history for having been elected as the first transgender woman president of the Cebu Lady Lawyers Association (CELLA). Oliva, who is also the current treasurer of Mandaue City, is also the first transgend...

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis of Sweden set a new world pole vault record of 6.22 meters at an indoor meeting in France on Saturday, describing it as "almost an out-of-body experience."Olympic champion Duplantis improved his own record of 6.21m...

When the Backstreet Boys burst onto the pop music scene, Kevin Richardson was 21 years old; Howie Dorough, a "very mature" 19; Brian Littrell, 18; AJ, 14; and Nick Carter, who had yet "to undergo puberty," was just 13. They weren't sup...

MANILA, Philippines --- Dryx Saavedra made quite an impression in his rookie debut for Far Eastern University as he showed the way in their 25-22, 25-23, 25-15 victory over University of the Philippines in the UAAP Season 85 men's volleyball tournamen...

Officials of a key business city in Metro Manila are reportedly exasperated over the stubborn refusal of a giant firm to pay billions of pesos in back taxes to the city government. The firm, which operates a vital and very profitable enterprise, has an ou...

MANILA, Philippines — The national government is intensifying its efforts to follow-up on investment pledges, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Sunday. According to the DTI in a statement from the Office of the President, th...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least 1,000 uniformed policemen will be deployed as part of the security team during the presidential visit in Cebu on Monday, Feb. 27. President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is making his first visit here sinc...

LISBON — Thousands took to Lisbon's streets on Saturday to demand better living conditions at a time high inflation is making it even tougher for people to make ends meet. Portugal is one of Western Europe's poorest countries, with governmen...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A progressive Cebu City— this is the goal of the Queen City of the South for the years to come. And for the local government, the solution is to follow the example of a nation known to be a leading economic hub and glo...

The story is told about a man who told his wife: "I found a wallet in the church. What should I do?" His wife said: "Don't give it back yet. Let's pray over it, and we will decide if it is a temptation from the devil or an answer from ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The moment she found out she had cancer, Carrie Martinez Bargayo knew she had a tough battle ahead of her. But the 37-year-old teacher was not one to give up that easily. Bargayo, a resident of Barangay Busay in Cebu City, r...

MANILA, Philippines — Different groups criticized President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s offer of reconciliation during the 37th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, a holiday that is annually commemorated over the successful...

LEGAZPI CITY The remains of the four victims of the Cessna plane crash were finally retrieved by the emergency responders on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 25), seven days after the incident. In a Facebook post, Camalig Mayor Carlos Irwin Baldo Jr., incident co...

Elisse Joson left her fans and fellow celebrities in awe as she flaunted her slim physique in a recent topless photoshoot she had. The 27-year-old actress and mom delivered a sultry look donning only tights and underwear, as seen in the black-and-white ph...

MANILA, Philippines — While diplomatic protests filed by the country seem not enough to flinch China, exposing the Asian superpower's bullying behavior consistently is an effective way to counter its intensifying aggression in the South China Se...

Sen. Nancy Binay has sought the intervention of the Senate to look into the plan of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to develop a 270-hectare portion of Masungi Georeserve in Rizal province for its new headquarters. "The Masungi Georeserve is a symbo...

More than a hundred high-ranking officials of the Philippine National Police, who submitted their courtesy resignations last month, have so far been screened by the panel tasked to check for their possible involvement in illegal drugs. During the five-man...

The Senate blue ribbon committee is set to launch another investigation of the controversy surrounding Sugar Order (SO) No. 6 amid suspicion that this was issued to justify the entry of a shipment of imported sugar six days before the supposed importation...

MANILA, Philippines —The spirit of the Edsa People Power Revolution will always be there to confront forces seeking to subvert Philippine democracy, trample on human rights, and deceive the Filipino people. This was the core message of the Aquino fa...

MANILA, Philippines — Survivors of atrocities during the Marcos dictatorship said on Saturday that they would be submitting petitions to various government agencies to demand that they make good on their promises to provide them and their families m...

MANILA, Philippines — After recently telling an international audience that he ran for public office to protect his family, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered a "hand of reconciliation" to his critics and opponents on Saturday as the cou...

A new season. A new start. A new set of challenges. NU Lady Bulldogs? Still the same.National University (NU) opened the UAAP Season 85 volleyball tournament the way the Lady Bulldogs ended the last, with a win that underscored just how prepared the defen...

NorthPort is clinging to optimism as it navigates the remainder of its PBA Governors' Cup."We're now upwards," coach Bonnie Tan told the Inquirer in Filipino shortly after the Batang Pier squeaked past Blackwater, 110-104, on Saturday nigh...

If experience is the best teacher, then Mason Amos has all the trappings to become an achiever.The Filipino-Australian big man, who has yet to play a single game in college, turned in a swashbuckling debut in Gilas Pilipinas' 107-96 romp of visiting L...

If Creamline had its way, the team would get back at a previous tormentor for a painful loss inflicted on it in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) All-Filipino Conference.But coach Sherwin Meneses knows that's not how the conference is built."We&...

Oil companies may implement a big-time rollback in pump prices next week, according to industry sources. A source said the price of diesel might decrease by P1.40 to P1.70 per liter and gasoline by 70 centavos to P1 per liter based on the five-day trading...

Some people were born to be entrepreneurs. Whether forced by circumstances or influenced by their parents, they didn't need any prodding to get into and thrive in the business world. There are also children of successful entrepreneurs who are able to ...

Kitchen genius and restaurateur Francis Balbarin, the New Yorker who opened Burgers and Brewskies in the Philippines with his creative takes on burgers, was in Manila for a weeklong takeover of James and Daughters in Estancia Mall. He had done a pop-up of...