More than any material present, lasting peace and safety can still be the “best gift” every Filipino can receive on Christmas, detained Sen. Leila de Lima said on Saturday.
Writer Butch Dalisay may have accomplished a lot of things throughout his storied career, but there’s one profession he never thought he’d be in: teaching dance.
2017 was Mexico’s most violent year in two decades, with 23,101 murders carried out between January and November, according to official figures released Friday.
The new US ambassador to the Netherlands accused an interviewer of peddling “fake news” and disputed comments he made in 2015 about the country being in “chaos” because of Muslims, only to then deny using the “fake news” claim in a bizarre exchange on Dutch television on Friday.
At least 10,000 people were killed in the Chinese army’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in June 1989, according to a newly released British diplomatic cable that recounts the bloodshed in gruesome detail.
A group of Russian scientists have sounded the alarm over what they said were attempts by the head of the security service to openly justify Stalin’s mass purges, the first such attempt in decades.
Thanks in part to their showbiz backgrounds, former senators Jinggoy Estrada and Lito Lapid both have a chance of reclaiming their seats in 2019 based on the survey commissioned by the ruling PDP-Laban.
Local government units (LGUs) in disaster-prone areas must learn how to use “geohazard map” to help them address the effects of climate change.
Some 6,000 policemen, politikos, government officials and judges could be put behind bars once President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug list is finalized.
The Palace is still tiptoeing around the P6 million Christmas party of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), giving the government owned and controlled corporation “the benefit of the doubt.”
