PDEA seizes P415.6-M illegal drugs, arrests 126 suspects

Inquirer.net - Oct 18, 2026

MANILA — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) seized P415.63 million worth of illegal drugs and arrested 126 suspects in 81 nationwide operations Oct. 8 to 14. In a news release Sunday, the PDEA said the operations included buy-busts, interdiction activities, marijuana eradication, search and seizure operations, and the implementation of search warrants. Of those

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CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — Two people were rescued after their fishing boat was reported partially submerged in waters off Wedge Island in San Vicente, Palawan, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Saturday, Oct. 17. Personnel of Coast Guard Sub-Station San Vicente, together with the municipal disaster risk reduction and management office, conducted search

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MANILA, Philippines — The Inquirer’s two-part special report on the country’s growing debt burden won Best News Coverage at the 48th Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA). The reports, “Debt service eats up biggest slice of budget pie” and “PH debt stock projected to hit P19T by end of 2026,” were written by Krixia Subingsubing, Nyah

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LUCENA CITY — Multi-sectoral groups have joined forces to intensify a campaign supporting more than 250 farming families in Sariaya, Quezon, who have been stripped of their rights to lands awarded to them under the government’s agrarian reform program. The “Save Sariaya Now!” campaign was launched at the Diocese of Lucena’s Sentro Pastoral in Lucena

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MANILA, Philippines — The Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP) has condemned a podcast’s discriminatory remarks about Kris Aquino’s son Josh, who is on the autism spectrum, and urged content creators to produce sensitive and ethical content. In a now-deleted podcast episode, Tito P, one of the five male hosts of “Machong Chismisan,” mocked Josh

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Professor Qian Jiang, a senior eye expert at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, has moved back to China full time to pursue research on eye transplants. For more than two decades, Qian built and ran the genetic data hub at Johns Hopkins’ renowned Wilmer Eye Institute. He was welcomed at a ceremony on October 5 at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, part of Zhejiang University, the hospital said. At the ceremony, Qian said he would also work on “virtual cells” – computer models...

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