The case is awaiting transfer to the High Court for trial.
Oct 15, 2026
KORONADAL CITY, SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — A 14-year-old student who fought off the gunman during a gun attack at Banga National High School in Banga, South Cotabato, last month said he was only concerned about keeping his classmates safe. Bryan Ezel Pamonag bared this during his recognition by the Department of Education (DepEd) during the
Lorelai Jacinto had worked as a domestic helper in Riyadh for two and a half years before she flew home to the Philippines on September 19, increasingly worried that the conflict in the Middle East was making it unsafe to stay. “When the conflict with Iran happened, I started feeling like it wasn’t safe there any more because I was right there in Riyadh myself, so the bombing, the missiles, were closer to us,” Jacinto told This Week in Asia. “I got worried, I got scared that maybe I wouldn’t be...
'Hindi ko naman iniisip na mapapatay ‘yong anak ko na wala namang kinalaman sa mga sitwasyon na iniisip nila…. Ang dami kong ‘bakit’ na tanong na walang sagot,' says Lorna Pepaño
Pyongyang test-fired two types of cruise missile from a submarine, its state news agency said on Thursday, after weeks of friction with Seoul over a landmine explosion along their border. The missiles were fired into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Wednesday without “any adverse impact on the security of neighbouring countries”, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Relations between Pyongyang and Seoul have been further strained since the landmine blast on...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Accounts, said Thursday that the upper chamber still has P11 million remaining in the allocated budget for the conduct of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte--an amount that is enough to cover the rest of the proceedings.
More than 20 flights were delayed or cancelled at Okinawa's Naha Airport on Oct. 13 after a security checkpoint shut for about two hours over a cleaner's missing scissors.
Confronted by a fuel crisis beyond its control, Bangladesh’s government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each month to insulate its people from surging prices. But as growth slows and inflation rises, the new government’s reform plans are being tested before it has had much time to clean up the country’s bad banks or retool its young, abundant – but underemployed – workforce for the AI era. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman took office on February 17, elected on promises of sweeping...
HSBC has launched a discretionary portfolio management service for retail investors with a minimum investment threshold as low as HK$1,000 (US$128) per month, as Hong Kong’s largest lender aims to attract younger, tech-savvy customers. The new service, named Portfolio+, allows HSBC’s retail banking customers in Hong Kong to build a discretionary investment portfolio via the company’s mobile apps with a lump sum of at least HK$10,000 or regular contributions of HK$1,000 per month, according to...
Among others, authorities must impose and enforce strict conditions on Lynas.
Cash remittances from overseas Filipinos increased year-on-year in August 2026, data released by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Thursday showed.
'This company has collected some of the most private thoughts children have ever shared, and now those conversations could be sold off to the highest bidder,' New York Attorney General Letitia James says