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Festival season is kicking off at the Aseana City Concert Grounds     PLUS63 Festival is gearing up for its highly-awaited Manila debut on Feb. 23, 2025 at the Aseana City Concert Grounds.  Named after the Philippines’ country code, this year’s festival season kickstarter was first staged in Cebu in 2016 in time for the Sinulog Festival. Past headliners include Steve Angello, Steve Aoki, and Joji. Whether you’ve yet to buy your tickets or you’re figuring out your itinerary for the 23rd, here’s everything you need to know in time for the PLUS63 Festival. READ: 2025 music festivals in the […]…

Keep on reading: Your all-you-need guide to PLUS63 Festival

American actor Richard Gere called President Donald Trump a “bully” and a “thug” on Saturday during an awards ceremony in Spain, and said the United States was in a “very dark place”. The 75-year-old, who received an International Goya Award at Spain’s top film honours, warned that authoritarianism is on the rise “everywhere”. “We’re in a very dark place in America, where we have a bully, a thug, who’s the president of the United States. But it’s not just in the US, it’s everywhere,” he said. “Authoritarianism takes us all over.” The “Pretty Woman” and “American Gigolo” actor was also […]…

Keep on reading: Richard Gere calls Donald Trump a ‘bully’ at Spain’s top film awards

Being part of the Miss Universe Philippines 2025 tilt is already a win for Teresita Ssen “Winwyn” Marquez, who is set to represent Muntinlupa at the already-stacked national tilt. On her Instagram page on Sunday, February 9, Marquez admitted that she still had her “what-ifs” in pageantry, although she clarified that being a mother is the “most beautiful role of [her] life.” “It has been 10 years since I first stepped onto a pageant stage, eight years since I became Miss Filipinas and lived a dream I worked so hard for outside the pageant world. Then I took a step […]…

Keep on reading: Winwyn Marquez on Miss Universe PH 2025 stint: ‘Dreams don’t have deadlines’

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. Marine from California was identified by military officials Sunday as one of four people killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines. Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, 22, of Long Beach, died Thursday in the crash of an aircraft that was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” officials at Camp Pendleton, California, said in a statement. Officials said the cause of the crash was under investigation. Three defense contractors also were killed in […]…

Keep on reading: US Marine from California identified as one of 4 people killed in Philippines plane crash

TAGUM CITY, DAVAO DEL NORTE, Philippines — Officials of the Northern Davao Electric Cooperative (Nordeco) have appealed to President Marcos to veto two congressional bills allowing the Aboitiz-owned Davao Light and Power Co. (DLPC) to take over its franchise areas. In a letter delivered to Malacañang on Feb. 6 signed by least 28 Nordeco officials […]…

Keep on reading: Davao power co-op urges Marcos to veto bills on firm’s expansion

ANTIPOLO CITY—Rain or Shine secured its place in the semifinals for the third straight conference after topping Converge, 112-103, Sunday in the deciding third game of their PBA Commissioner’s Cup quarters series at Ynares Center here. Import Deon Thompson lorded the paint on his way to 34 points while Adrian Nocum and Andrei Caracut were among those who also delivered as the Elasto Painters bucked a frustrating Game 1 defeat to eliminate the FiberXers. Veteran Beau Belga provided quality minutes with two threes in the fourth quarter that helped Rain or Shine create separation from Converge and set up a […]…

Keep on reading: PBA: Rain or Shine boots out Converge for semis spot

DAVAO CITY — Amid the continued killings of non-Moro indigenous peoples in Maguindanao provinces and with the recent passing into law of the Indigenous People’s Act in the Bangsamoro, leaders of Teduray and Lambangian tribes are asking the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to issue their certificate of ancestral domain title (CADT) first before turning over their ancestral domain documents to the Bangsamoro. Leticio Datuwata, supreme leader of the Timuay Justice and Governance, the tribes’ indigenous political structure, said once they already had the CADT, it would be much easier for the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs (MIPA) to […]…

Keep on reading: Non-Moro IP in Bangsamoro demands issuance of CADT, stop to killings

  MANILA, Philippines — Lawyer Romulo Macalintal on Sunday opposed the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) proposal to collect toll from motorists using Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (Edsa), arguing that it may constitute double taxation and is impractical. “This is not only impractical but may constitute double taxation because vehicle owners already pay the ‘road user’s tax’ under Republic Act No. 8794,” Macalintal said in a statement, referring to the Motor Vehicle User’s Charge (MVUC) law, which funds road maintenance and improvements. Instead of toll fees, Macalintal reiterated his long-standing proposal of implementing a four-day work week for government offices […]…

Keep on reading: Lawyer rejects proposed Edsa congestion fee, 4-day work week pushed

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes. The executive order, dated Wednesday, didn’t say when the pause would end but said it would cease when the Department of Commerce could put in place “adequate systems” to “fully and expediently process and collect tariff revenue.” “It’s just showing we’re moving fast, and the implications are not fully understood when some of these regulations are […]…

Keep on reading: Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China

COTABATO CITY – A lone assailant shot dead the assistant schools division superintendent of Sulu province while she was inside her office in Jolo town on Friday afternoon. An initial report from Jolo municipal police station, identified the victim as Sonatria Dandun Gaspar assistant schools division for Sulu of the Ministry of Basic, Higher and […]…

Keep on reading: Sulu education exec gunned down inside her office