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MANILA, Philippines—Senator-judge Erwin Tulfo lost his cool with a hostile witness who appeared to struggle to speak Filipino during the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday. Tulfo sought to be recognized while private prosecutor Amando Virgil Ligutan was conducting direct examination of witness Gina Acosta, Duterte’s former special disbursing officer and current
Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro — The Philippine Coast Guard and Philippine Air Force have been searching for a 64-year-old fisherman who has been missing off Isla Verde, Batangas, since Aug. 5, according to a statement from Coast Guard District Southern Tagalog on Monday. Joe B. Soriano, a resident of Barangay Liponpon in Isla Verde, reportedly
ZAMBOANGA CITY — The city government here has installed three electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at the City Hall grounds for free public use. City Administrator Percival Ramos, who supervised the installation work, said in a statement on Thursday that two of the three EV charging stations were installed in front of the City Hall for
Last week gave this live soap opera of a Lopez family saga some of its most dramatic episodes yet. Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III, a cousin who had walked away from the empire , sold his stake in it to rescue the business he still considered his family’s mission. His cousin, Federico “Piki” Lopez, welcomed Ramon Ang’s arrival as the family’s new business partner as a step toward peace, then watched ...
By Brian Lewis AMERICAN filmmaker George Lucas is one of the latest to indicate he’s open to AI in the movie industry. In a recent interview, the director said resistance to the technology was “very much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon t...
MANILA, Philippines – Award-winning Filipina author Marra PL. Lanot died on Sunday, August 16. She was 82. No cause of death was disclosed, but Lanot’s family said her passing came after a “prolonged hospital stay.” Lanot was a trilingual poet, essayist, and freelance journalist who wrote in Filipino, English, and Spanish. Her first collection of poetry, Sheaves of Things Burning , won second p...
MANILA, Philippines —The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is investigating a reported delay in the response to an emergency call involving a 71-year-old patient who suffered a mild stroke in Taguig City on Saturday. The emergency call was received by the Emergency 911 service at around 12:15 p.m. on Aug. 15, according
MANILA, Philippines – Gilas Pilipinas needs Kai Sotto now more than ever as its FIBA World Cup aspirations hinge on its upcoming games in the Asian Qualifiers. But it remains uncertain whether the 7-foot-3 big man, who has not suited up for the national team in over a year, will return to action anytime soon. “No word,” said head coach Tim Cone when asked about Sotto’s participation in the four...
A given National Basketball Association (NBA) schedule is usually read in the simplest possible way: 82 games, spread across six months, with the standings eventually sorting out who was good enough to win and who was not. But the schedule is not simply a neutral list of opponents. The order in which teams meet, the number of times they play on consecutive nights, the amount of travel between g...
For more than 20 years, it had been the talk not just in Cavite but in national political circles that the company of Princess Revilla (Rebecca Bautista-Ocampo) was getting contracts either from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) or from contractors who were bagging projects from the agency. Her company, Graia Construction Corporation, was formed in 2003. That year, her father, ...
MANILA, Philippines – For Karlo Dizon, the idea behind Kartilya.PH — a free research archive of selected Philippine legal materials powered with an AI search engine — began with a basic problem that the Philippines is still in the process of solving: widespread access to justice. Dizon, a Filipino lawyer and technologist who was born in Bataan, and now moves between New York, the Philippines, a...
