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‘Shortchanged’? Mayors seek talks with Recto on tax share

BAGUIO CITY—The anticorruption movement Mayors for Good Governance (M4GG) has asked the Department of Finance…

Many tourists take bus to Baguio amid traffic woes, says mayor

BAGUIO CITY—Bumper-to-bumper traffic in this city, particularly during holidays and regular weekends, appears to have…

New high: Gov’t debt topped P16T in Nov

Total outstanding debt of the government rose to a new record high in November, no…

Powerful earthquake kills nearly 100 in Tibet

BEIJING/KATHMANDU—A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s…

The party list mutation

Whatever is left of our political creativity is being expressed—and wasted—in the party list. It…

Making Akap nonpartisan

President Marcos expended considerable political capital after he ignored calls to scrap the controversial Ayuda…

PH starts temporary hosting of 300 Afghans

About 300 Afghan nationals—at least half of them minors—arrived in the Philippines on Monday aboard…

Buyer splurges $1.3M on Tokyo new year tuna

TOKYO—The top bidder at a Tokyo fish market said they paid $1.3 million for a…

‘Monster’ still in PH waters, ignores PCG call to leave

China’s biggest coast guard vessel maintained its “illegal presence” in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone…

‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Emilia Perez’ triumph at Golden Globes

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA—“The Brutalist,” the story of a Holocaust survivor who chases the American dream,…