Kapuso star Charlie Fleming stepped into adulthood in style as she celebrated her 18th birthday with a dreamy pink-themed ball.
Sep 20, 2026
MANILA, Philippines — Kapampangan lass Sophia Bianca Santos posted a second consecutive win for the Philippines at the 2026 Miss Elite competition in Egypt, an unprecedented back-to-back victory in the pageant’s history, further asserting the country’s status as an international pageant powerhouse. Also on Friday night (early Saturday morning in Manila), another Filipino woman claimed
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Budget and Management has released a P27.4-billion budget to the Department of Health to strengthen health care services for indigent and financially incapacitated patients under the Medical Assistance to Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients (MAIFIP) program. Of the total budget, P19.145 billion will be allocated to DOH Centers for
LOS ANGELES — I was visiting my father’s grave on his death anniversary at a cemetery for dead soldiers in this city last Sept. 13 when I learned that my old boss and mentor Eugenia Duran Apostol, founder of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), had died in the Philippines at age 100. Suddenly, I realized
Constitutional provisions must never be fragmented and parsed into isolated words and phrases, each assigned a standalone meaning detached from the whole
MANIL, Philippines — Along CP Garcia Avenue at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, Quezon City, a 1.4-hectare property is reserved for a museum meant to keep alive the stories of Filipinos who suffered human rights violations under the regime of the late President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Eight years after plans were formalized, however,
READ: Follow Inquirer Sports’ special coverage of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 Eumir Marcial and Kayla Sanchez, two of the Philippines’ brightest medal hopes, were right in the middle of all the talk about the Asian Games, which officially got going on Saturday with a spectacular opening ceremony. But they were talked about for different
READ: Follow Inquirer Sports’ special coverage of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 Kayla Sanchez described her return to Japan as a full-circle moment as she hopes to have a successful campaign representing the Philippines in the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. “Different flag, same big dreams,” Sanchez wrote on her Instagram account. Her second Asiad stint will
TORONTO—Kelsey Mitchell walked into a postgame celebration without realizing she was the guest of honor. Mitchell scored 33 points to set a WNBA season scoring record Friday night in a 103-85 victory over the Toronto Tempo. READ: WNBA: Caitlin Clark, Mitchell keep Fever on record-chasing pace With a three-pointer in the third quarter, Mitchell eclipsed
SAN MARCELINO, Zambales — For the first time in what seemed like a very long while, the sky above this remote community was finally bright. On Sept. 13, there was no steady curtain of rain, no dark clouds threatening another downpour and no river swollen by another night of heavy rains. Under the morning sun,
READ: UAAP Season 89 men’s basketball tournament – first round University of the Philippines didn’t get to showcase its new recruits when it opened its UAAP Season 89 men’s basketball campaign with a victory. Veejay Pre and James Payosing made sure they’d be seen this time. Pre, the transferee from Far Eastern U and Payosing,
Sept. 21, 2022 The National Historical Commission of the Philippines installed a historical marker at Basay, Negros Oriental, to commemorate “Ang Pagdaong ng USS Crevalle.” On May 11, 1944, the USS Crevalle, a submarine of the US Navy that reached various parts of the Philippines and confronted Japanese naval forces, arrived on the shores of