Category: General

Manila: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Friday the early voting hours policy for the members of the vulnerable sector in the 2025 midterm elections would be implemented nationwide. Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia said the decision came after the measure’s successful pilot testing during the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. “Come the 2025 elections, we will already allow the elderly, persons with disability, pregnant women nationwide to vote exclusively between 5 a.m. until 7 a.m.,” he said in a radio interview. He said the early voting hours is expected to benefit the vulnerable sector since they would be

A total of 6,130 samples were collected in the doping control program during the Paris Olympic Games, covering 39 percent of all participating athletes and nearly all the delegations, the International Testing Agency (ITA) announced. The number of samples collected in Paris was a four percent increase compared to Tokyo 2020 and 10 percent higher than Rio 2016. Up until Thursday, five anti-doping rule violations were reported based on results from samples the ITA collected during Paris 2024 where the vast majority of doping controls implemented were targeted based on risk assessment. The ITA also carried out an extensive pre-Games

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Bicol has distributed more than 200,000 food packs to families affected by weather disturbances as of Friday. In an interview, Carl James Cabarles, DSWD disaster risk reduction management division information officer, said a total of 214,084 family food packs (FFPs) worth PHP147.5 million have been distributed since Sept. 2. “We distributed family food packs for families affected by the combined effect of Tropical Storm Enteng, Tropical Depression Gener, and Tropical Storm Helen and the southwest monsoon or ‘habagat’ that caused heavy rains, floods, and landslides in various areas in the six

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim denied that the police had closed the investigation into a case related to a person with disabilities (PWD) e-hailing driver who was allegedly beaten by a dignitary’s escort. He said the public should give space to the police to conduct an investigation which may take some time. “Who said the case is closed? This case is indeed a matter of concern, I also personally take note of this, even on other matters involving ordinary people, let the police investigate, once satisfied with the investigation, then we will take action, let’s not take the law

The Perlis Fatwa Committee in its special meeting today concluded that the teachings of Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holding Sdn Bhd (GISBH) contain deviant elements, particularly in their spiritual beliefs. State mufti Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin said that GISBH’s beliefs are a continuation of the al-Arqam teachings, which have been declared deviant. ‘In its discussion, the Committee concluded that the GISBH group’s beliefs promote a cult-like devotion to its leaders or religious figures, to the extent of equating them with the Prophet Muhammad SAW, attributing miraculous abilities or knowledge of the unseen to them, as if they