Advocates call for early intervention, legal reform, and action on misogyny.
Oct 25, 2026
Singapore is turning to major technology firms to strengthen its cyber defences, even as it presses them for greater transparency over security breaches – a balancing act facing regional governments as they seek to harness artificial intelligence while guarding against the risks it introduces. Those risks were highlighted by an AI agent linked to OpenAI that gained unauthorised access to files on an Australian government website earlier this year, raising questions over how quickly companies...
Unlike Bali's famed Kecak dance or Hanoi's iconic water puppet theater, the cultural performances in the Philippines can be hard for tourists to find
Oct 24, 2026
MANILA, Philippines — Fifty delisted party-list groups seeking to join the 2028 elections must prove their track records and qualifications to regain accreditation with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Comelec chair George Erwin Garcia said on Saturday. The groups may reapply by filing new petitions for accreditation before the Dec. 30 deadline. They will be
ILOILO CITY, Philippines — Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) logged significant gains in its anti-criminality campaign, seizing nearly P2 million worth of illegal drugs, arresting 14 individuals, and securing 17 firearms across Western Visayas in a 24-hour period. According to the official report spanning 6 a.m. on Oct. 23 to 5:59 a.m. on Oct. 24,
MANILA, Philippines — Have you ever observed that everyday consumer products marketed toward a specific gender are frequently more expensive than identical items targeted at another, despite being practically the same? To eradicate this inequitable pricing practice, Sen. Loren Legarda has officially filed SBN 2483, or An Act prohibiting gender-based price discrimination in consumer goods
Speaking the language comes naturally to this second-generation descendant of Javanese ancestry.
BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines — The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Western Visayas has approved P40 to P45 daily minimum wage increase for private-sector workers, which is subject to approval of the labor secretary. RTWPB-6 chair Sixto Rodriguez Jr. on Saturday said that the hike covers workers in Western Visayas, Negros
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is not moving fast enough to strengthen its defenses, Defense Sec. Gilberto Teodoro Jr. warned on Saturday. Teodoro said ambitious national security plans should have been laid out years ago. “When national security is concerned, ambitious plans needed to have been laid down on the ground years ago. But we
COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — A majority coalition in the Bangsamoro Parliament has secured the backing of all five provincial governors in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari, ahead of the convening of the regional legislature on Oct. 30. In a joint statement released
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. In the fourth part of this series, William Zheng looks at how the next generation of the party is being formed. When China’s political elites gather behind closed doors in Beijing for the Communist Party’s fifth plenum on Monday, much of the attention will be on the quiet preparations for allocating hundreds of pivotal roles in next year’s 21st...
MANILA, Philippines—No player bagged the Grand Lotto 6/55 and Lotto 6/42 jackpot prize on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, according to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. Grand Lotto 6/55 draw result: 22-39-14-17-54-10. Jackpot prize: 298.32 million. Lotto 6/42 draw result: 39-03-18-41-42-34. Jackpot prize: ₱15.43 million. The 6D Lotto draw likewise recorded no winner for the combination