MANILA, Philippines — The southwest monsoon, locally known as habagat, will continue to bring cloudy skies and intermittent rain showers across much of the country on Tuesday, July 28, according to the state weather bureau. Weather specialist Veronica Torres of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Metro Manila and the rest

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Cebu provincial and district hospitals have activated dedicated dengue fast lanes as health officials monitor a cluster of cases during the rainy season. The fast lanes are intended to speed up the assessment, testing, and treatment of patients suspected of having dengue, as health authorities strengthen their response to the seasonal

MANILA, Philippines — Gloomy skies with occasional rain showers are expected to prevail over the rest of the country on Tuesday, July 28, due to the southwest monsoon, or habagat, the state weather bureau reported. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration weather specialist Veronica Torres said that partly cloudy to cloudy skies are forecast

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos called out racist attacks by a “neighbor” in his State of the Nation Address, some two weeks after an artificial intelligence (AI) video from China depicting Filipinos as monkeys. The President devoted a good part of his penultimate address to that matter, calling it “a collective threat that lies before

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos on Monday urged Congress to immediately amend the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) by abolishing the system loss charges passed on to consumers, saying it is unfair to make the public pay for inefficiencies in the power sector. In his fifth State of the Nation Address (Sona), the President

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos declared on Monday that even members of his own family and political allies would not be spared from his administration’s anticorruption campaign, citing that the Office of the Ombudsman has begun investigating his cousin, former Speaker and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, over the multibillion-peso flood control scandal. In his fifth

FIFTH SONA — Length: 85 minutes with at least 93 rounds of applause and two standing ovations. Around 8 minutes longer than Sona 2025 HIGHLIGHTS •Starts with updates on the investigations on corruption allegations on flood control projects •Tackles the effects of the Middle East war, particularly on the safety of overseas Filipino workers, employment,