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Here are some of the key safety features of a good quality car seat

Some child restraint systems sold online pose as legitimate safety devices that offer little to no protection in the event of a collision. Here are ways to find out if your car seat is good enough for your kid.

From an earlier position that presumption of innocence can be waived, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo now says it must be upheld in the case of resigned police chief Oscar Albayalde.

TIGBAUAN, Iloilo – Not all leaves that fall to the ground are litters, there is one – the talisay leaves, that in its drying, it is sustaining a fish life.

The Philippines is receptive to improving vehicle safety.

Many of its provisions are enacted on a limited basis, such as the lack of manpower in monitoring and apprehending drivers who are driving under the influence.

President Rodrigo Duterte wants to “fast track” the cases of sick and elderly inmates or persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa. He believes, however, that those who have been behind bars for a long time prefer to stay in prison because they “have acquired latent homosexuality.”

Facebook users will soon be able to get news through a special in-app tab, with the new feature being rolled out in select cities in the United States yesterday, Oct. 25. This comes as the social media giant faced criticism for being a platform for mis- and disinformation.

From previously calling the traffic congestion in Metro Manila a “crisis” that required emergency powers for the president, Transport Secretary Arthur Tugade now calls the situation a mere “problem.”

Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, the former Special Assistant to the President, falsely claimed President Rodrigo Duterte did not promise to solve the traffic congestion in Metro Manila.

A fake government office called “Philippine International Development Agency (PIDA)” is pretending to be a procurement body under the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). A reader asked VERA Files to fact check the agency’s legitimacy after a post about it made the rounds on social media.

Sen. Richard Gordon warned “ninja cops” -- police officers allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade -- of facing capital punishment, which has already been abolished in the country.

The Senate investigation on the controversial Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) has opened a can of worms -- among them the transfer of 10 “high profile” New Bilibid Prison (NBP) inmates to a Philippine Marines facility on June 12.

The battle of Marawi in 2017, in the heart of the Islamic city in Lanao del Sur province, deviated into violent extremism that opened more fears for the future in what was an undertaking by mostly a generation of millennial fighters. The siege that lasted five months, from May to October, was unprecedented in magnitude, challenging the military in doctrine and tactics, and prompting daily sorties of air strikes that reduced Marawi to a state of destruction. It was unbelievable that two principal brothers of a family attached to the political and business elite of the Maranaos – the Muslim ethnic tribe of Lanao del Sur – had raised the stakes of Islamism beyond the call for autonomy in a fractured land.

While searching for dense forests through the Google Earth map, Emmanuel Lerona was surprised to see something different as he was looking at the mountain-area of Antique in Google Earth. “Instead of just light and dark areas to indicate peaks and slopes and ridges of mountain, I saw a very unnatural-looking feature that looked more like spider webs,”

President Rodrigo Duterte repeated his earlier false claim of making an exception to his policy of not accepting honors and awards.

In a speech before the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Sept. 28, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro "Teddy Boy” Locsin Jr. said the Philippine government’s progress in attaining the “aspirations” of the people, such as the fight against poverty and crime, cannot be measured based solely on income per capita.

Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza resurrected an old, false claim that Tetanus Toxoid (TT) vaccine is “being laced with an anti-fertility element.”