Health reading for every zodiac sign: Oct. 26-31, 2026

GMA Network - Oct 28, 2026

We're headed to the Halloween weekend. How are you all feeling after Mercury went retrograde and the full moon in Taurus? That's not mentioning Venus Retrograde now back in Libra. Perhaps it's best to use the weekend to rest and reset?

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Around 40% of all original homeowners have moved out of Hoi An, while rents for state-owned properties have soared to hundreds of millions of dong a month, putting the ancient town at risk of gradually losing its local population.

Australia returns ancient stone heads to China after more than 30 years

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Australia has returned two stone sculptures to China after more than 30 years abroad. The statues, showing the heads of a military official and civil servant, had been given to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra by a private collector and date back to the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration received the heads on Wednesday, according to the state broadcaster CCTV. They are thought to have been removed from two imperial mausoleums in Henan...

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Oct 28, 2026

Waze restriction unjustified as other similar apps also collect same data from users, they add.

Israeli woman accused of claiming hotel as her own faces deportation from Thailand

Oct 28, 2026

Thai immigration police have revoked an Israeli woman's visa and detained her pending deportation after she allegedly threatened national park staff and ordered hotel guests out on Koh Phangan.

Which Asian country has more than 99% of area covered by seawater?

Oct 28, 2026

This country has a total area of approximately 90,000 sq.km, of which more than 99% is seawater.

NMP invests P261M to upgrade seafarer training facilities in Tacloban

Oct 28, 2026

TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines — Filipino seafarers training in Eastern Visayas are expected to benefit from improved accommodation and upgraded safety training facilities as the National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP) rolls out P261 million worth of infrastructure projects at its Tacloban complex. The projects, unveiled on Tuesday, Oct. 27, form part of the government agency’s modernization

Pre-shaded ballots found beyond Maluso in BARMM polls – watchdog

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MANILA, Philippines — Pre-shaded ballots were observed in three precincts outside the high-profile incident in Maluso, Basilan, during the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), an election watchdog said on Wednesday. The findings suggest that the ballot irregularities were not confined to Maluso, where more than 16,000 ballots were

More Filipinos favor VP’s defense team in Senate trial – survey

Oct 28, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — More Filipinos were satisfied with Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team than the House prosecution during her Senate impeachment trial, a survey from the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said on Wednesday. The survey was fielded among 1,500 Filipino adults, aged 18 and above, nationwide using face-to-face interviews. It found that 47 percent

PCSO lotto results Oct. 28: ₱312.1M jackpot not won

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MANILA, Philippines — No bettor won the ₱312.1 million Grand Lotto 6/55 jackpot or the ₱15 million Mega Lotto 6/45 jackpot in the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) draws on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. The Grand Lotto 6/55 draw produced the winning combination 36-21-16-26-49-13, with a jackpot prize of ₱312.1 million. No ticket matched all

Consumers group backs call to penalize power firms over Visayas outages

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BACOLOD CITY — The Alliance of Concerned Consumers in Electricity and Social Services (Access) has backed Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian’s call for the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to penalize power firms responsible for recurring and prolonged outages across the Visayas Grid. Access President Wennie Sancho said on Wednesday that

Ombudsman fines Cebu City mayor over night market operations

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TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered Cebu City Mayor Nestor Dionson Archival Sr. to pay a fine equivalent to one month’s basic salary after finding him administratively liable for simple neglect of duty over lapses in the operation of the 2025 Colon Street Night Market. The Ombudsman on Wednesday said

What China’s best new cultural spaces have in common: the light touch

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On a hillside in Anji, in Zhejiang province, a cluster of umbrella-like canopies steps gently down the slope, following the rows of tea bushes. There is no grand entrance, no plinth, no monumental block of stone. On October 22, at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, this project, Anji Hood by RoarcRenew Architects, was named Cultural Space of the Year at the Frame Awards 2026, chosen from more than 1,000 submissions by 100 jurors across 10 panels. I served on the Frame Awards 2026 grand jury for the...

Health reading for every zodiac sign: Oct. 26-31, 2026

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