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Road safety advocates shared some reasons why road crashes continue despite the lockdown.

KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia - Maxwell Leo Lee’s ‘blackboard’ is his smartphone, which is just a little bigger than his hand. The 11-year-old Malaysian student has been doing e-learning since March, when the government suspended physical classes in schools across the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Regular fast food meals paired with sweetened beverages did not seem harmful at all to Kevin Cordoviz when he was in his early 20's.

President Rodrigo Duterte contradicted his top diplomat when he affirmed the Philippines’ historic arbitral victory against China on the South China Sea dispute during his debut appearance at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) on Sept. 22.

President Rodrigo Duterte reminded global leaders in his first-ever appearance at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that access for both poor and rich countries to a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine must be considered a “matter of public policy” and crucial in the global recovery from the pandemic.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque cited the wrong executive order in connection with the new guidelines in processing requests for Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) that the Office of the Ombudsman released on Sept. 15.

High noon of June 30, 1981, the sound of “And he shall reign forever and ever” from Handel’s Messiah soared over the crowd that gathered at the Rizal Park and into the homes of Filipinos all over the country, glued to their TV sets or listening to the radio.

For at least the third time, Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque claimed that the Philippines was the first country to impose a lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), resulting in fewer deaths and earning for it an 85 percent rating for effective response.

The Office of the Ombudsman has issued new guidelines in releasing copies of Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) more than one year after it suspended the processing of all requests from the media and the public.

The Manila Bay “white sand” project did not go through an environmental impact assessment, according to an official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental and Management Bureau (DENR-EMB).

Drawing flak in mid-August for improperly wearing his face mask in public, thereby violating health protocols to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), lawyer Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon, in a Facebook (FB) video, justified his actions with false and misleading claims.

While COVID-19 cases continue to rise, road safety advocates say the country is also experiencing what they call a silent epidemic -- injuries from road crashes. But unlike the response to the coronavirus pandemic, they say programs to protect road users, especially children, remain limited.

Former Education undersecretary and 2019 senatorial aspirant Antonio “Butch” Valdes propagated an incorrect claim about the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) “finally admitting” that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) death count in the U.S. is way less than was originally reported.

In justifying the conversion of farmlands to residential areas and factories, Sen. Cynthia Villar falsely claimed that Israel had no agricultural lands and is a net exporter of vegetables in the Middle East.

The possible presence of toxic heavy metals and silica dust in the crushed dolomite rocks dumped at the Manila Baywalk may cause cancer, respiratory and kidney problems and subsequently weaken the immune system, a toxicologist had warned.

Cho Il-hyung gets #Alive to magnify the new reality we all have to deal with amid the COVID-19 pandemic — isolation, loneliness, and survival.

On Sept. 7, President Rodrigo Duterte granted absolute pardon to United States marine Joseph Scott Pemberton, who was convicted of homicide and sentenced to six to 10 years in prison for killing Filipino transgender woman Jennifer Laude in 2014.

In just four days, the Palace went from calling a local court’s decision to free United States marine Joseph Scott Pemberton a “judicial overreach” to granting him absolute pardon for the 2014 killing of Filipino transgender woman Jennifer Laude.

From vowing to bring peace in Mindanao before the end of his six-year term in 2022, President Rodrigo Duterte now says it would “take more than a generation” to do so, following the twin bombings that rocked Jolo on Aug. 24.

The environment department’s project to beautify Manila Bay smacks of insensitivity to the people’s difficulties in coping with the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and contradicts President Duterte’s vow to spend public money judiciously, particularly in this time of pandemic.

While the Philippines continues to grapple with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), news about a new viral mutation that is said to be “globally dominant” and “more infectious” than the original have recently made the headlines.

Widely circulating among social media users since May are inaccurate Facebook posts accusing the affluent Lopez family of "fooling the Filipinos for 34 years." Of the seven claims related to the Lopezes and their history, two are downright false, four need further context, and one is unfounded.

Legal luminaries urged the Supreme Court (SC) to exercise judicial activism following its dismissal of a petition urging President Rodrigo Duterte to reveal publicly his health condition.

President Rodrigo Duterte inaccurately claimed that he doesn’t know the people behind the group pushing for a “revolutionary government” with him at the helm in transitioning to a federal system by 2022.