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WORLDManuel V. Pangilinan is giving Leandro Leviste’s old solar crown jewel quite the makeover. First, shed the SPNEC name. Next, bring in nearly P5 billion worth of other renewable energy businesses. And perhaps, pitch the shiny new thing to stock market investors all over again. SP New Energy…
WORLDLast week, Rappler’s civic engagement arm MovePH brought #MoveCebu to the University of San Carlos, gathering over 200 people during a public forum to define what a liveable city should be . To solidify our long-term commitment to campus journalism and civic engagement, we proudly signed memoranda…
CEBU, Philippines — Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. told Southeast Asian defense chiefs, whose countries have widely varying ties with superpower China, that the bloc should “not allow differences to divide us from within.” “ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] was…
WORLDClaim: US President Donald Trump will make a courtesy call on Vice President Sara Duterte when he visits the Philippines next month, and Duterte will be the president by then. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: On October 22, Facebook user Rey Cano Salarda published a post that carries the…
WORLDNEW YORK, USA – The US Federal Election Commission’s website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters, disrupting the agency’s electronic filings system a week before the November 3 elections. The hack comes as so-called super PACs and dark money groups spend…
MANILA, Philippines – Associate Justice Jose Midas Marquez made a big promise when he faced the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) for his interview as a chief justice candidate. Marquez, who once served as head of the Supreme Court’s (SC) Office of the Court Administrator, said there will be no more…
WORLDWASHINGTON, USA – The US military has spent over $47 billion so far to prosecute the war in Iran , more than 25% higher than the Defense Department’s estimate in July, according to Pentagon data obtained by Reuters. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its estimate,…
WORLDMANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that employers cannot force their employees to retire early without an agreement. In a decision penned by Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando, and was made public on Tuesday, October 27, the SC 1st Division said employees cannot be made to…
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WORLDWhen a household opens a higher electricity bill, it is also confronting a currency problem. The peso’s slide creates a stark divide across the country: extra cash for families receiving dollars, but steeper costs for those earning pesos. Yet even that apparent windfall carries an invisible tax.…
WORLDDUBAI, UAE – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday, October 27, they had hit Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, with a ballistic missile. Intensifying hostilities between Yemen and Saudi Arabia have further disrupted oil supplies and heightened the risk of a…