PHILIPPINES BREAKING NEWS

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – A woman from Pasil, Kalinga, who has spent years helping protect indigenous rice varieties and food traditions has been recognized by one of the world’s best-known food movements. Rowena Gonnay, co-founder of the Slow Food Community Pasil, received the 2026 ByungSoo Kim…

Ambition met market arithmetic when GCash’s final offer price settled at P6.60 instead of P10, stripping hundreds of billions of pesos off its implied valuation. Global funds backed the digital leader only after demanding a substantial discount. For everyday investors stepping into the country’s…

Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: Mans Carpio’s firm got P319 million from ‘Chinese government and corporations’ — Trillanes Former senator Sonny Trillanes alleges entities tied to Vice President Sara Duterte received hundreds of millions of pesos…

The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte — the first Philippine public official to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives — began at 2 pm on Monday, July 6. There are four articles of impeachment against Duterte involving alleged misuse of confidential funds, unexplained…

The Supreme Court (SC) junked on Wednesday, September 30, the petitions challenging the adjusted threshold for conviction in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment. There were three petitions, and one of them was filed by Vic Rodriguez – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s former executive…

MANILA, Philippines – Kaila Napolis somehow made up for the heartbreaking defeats of world champions Annie Ramirez and Kimberly Custodio as she salvaged a jiu-jitsu bronze medal in the 2026 Asian Games. Napolis clinched what is so far the Philippines’ only jiu-jitsu medal in the continental meet in…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines missed out on two additional gold medals in the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, after taekwondo jins Tachiana Mangin and Kurt Barbosa settled for a pair of silvers on Friday, October 2. Barbosa and Mangin lost their respective title bouts at the Toyohashi…

Who is behind the Chinese name that had appeared — but later disappeared — in the corporate records of Vice President Sara Duterte’s company? Ask former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and he will tell you it’s a person who doesn’t exist. During his press conference on Friday, October 2, Trillanes…

Claim: An arrest warrant was issued against Senator Raffy Tulfo, who was then apprehended by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The thumbnail of the YouTube video bearing the claim shows Tulfo alongside an image of a purported Supreme Court (SC)…

Listening to former senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s press conference is an exercise in reading between the lines. Trillanes, fresh from his removal from the prosecution’s witness lineup in Vice President Sara Duterte’s trial, consistently faced questions from the media on the identity of the…