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Runners in Malaysia are swapping their usual routes through parks and city streets for laps around shopping malls, commandeering air-conditioned corridors to keep up their training as a stubborn blanket of haze makes exercising outdoors increasingly hazardous. The switch comes as smoke from forest and peatland fires continues to foul the air across parts of Southeast Asia, with Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur and its surrounding districts among the hardest-hit areas. By 9am on Thursday, 15 of...

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Oct 22, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Wednesday called for an investigation into possible lapses following Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla’s admission that gambling tycoon Charlie “Atong” Ang had managed to leave the country through the “backdoor.” Justice Secretary Fredderick Vida, however, insisted that Ang was still in the Philippines, based on Bureau of Immigration (BI) records. “Let’s

Film industry execs urge gov’t: Help bring down movie ticket prices

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MANILA, Philippines — They should be charging less, not more, to stay afloat. Two major voices in the Philippine movie industry on Wednesday asked lawmakers to help find ways to reduce theater ticket prices in order to draw more Filipinos back to the cinema and keep local production companies viable and their talents and crews

COA notes P242-M idled equipment for still-unfinished gov’t hospitals

Oct 22, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged P242.358 million worth of idle medical equipment in 2025 mainly because recipient government hospitals and health centers were not operationally ready yet. The agency observed the deficiencies yet again in the implementation of the Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP), one of the banner programs of

P397-M ‘duplicate’ payments found in DSWD ‘ayuda’ scheme

Oct 22, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA) said it found P397.45 million worth of “duplicate, multiple and overlapping” payments to beneficiaries of the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) program under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). In its 2025 annual audit report, the COA noted that some beneficiaries of the

Taxpayers can’t get back P467B flagged by SC

Oct 22, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — At least P467 billion in disputed funding increases in the 2024 and 2025 national budgets will not be returned to government coffers, even as the Supreme Court’s ruling declaring the increases unconstitutional prompted lawmakers to demand greater transparency and tighter scrutiny of the proposed P7.2-trillion national budget for next year. Supreme Court

How many handbags does a woman really need?

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Tiu Laurel alleges smear campaign by rice smugglers amid import controversy

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Malaysia’s TuJu app struggles after Anwar suggests switching from Waze

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Malaysia’s highway authority is working to resolve technical disruptions affecting its TuJu navigation application following a sharp increase in users. In a statement on Thursday, the Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) said the matter was being resolved together with the application provider Prosignal Consortium. LLM said the surge in users came after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim suggested that the public consider using a locally developed navigation application instead of Waze. “We apologise for...

Taiwan probes organized crime links to China’s ‘transnational repression’

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Taiwan has complained that Beijing is using various underhanded methods to go after Taiwanese who the Chinese government views as separatists or are otherwise politically suspect

In Bohol, cloud seeding begins to save farms

Oct 22, 2026

TAGBILARAN CITY, BOHOL, Philippines — Bohol has launched cloud-seeding operations to help farmers cope with drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon, as initial agricultural damage in the province approaches P300 million. The aircraft conducted its first cloud-seeding flight on Monday, followed by a second operation on Tuesday, as the provincial government intensified efforts to

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