Thousands of young people tried to gather to protest a sweeping revision of their country’s voter roll. Security forces hauled many of them away.

Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian said Saturday that the Senate would begin deliberations on the proposed 2026 national budget on Wednesday, October 14.

Jihan Mohin Dimachk of Tanzania is Miss Grand International 2026!

Philippine bet Gabrielle Galapia finished as third runner-up at the Miss Asia Pacific International 2026 pageant held at the Cebu Coliseum on Saturday night.

TACLOBAN CITY — More than 6,000 employment opportunities were offered to jobseekers in three cities in Eastern Visayas through a series of job fairs organized by the Office of Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). The Tacloban leg of the employment caravan was held Saturday, Oct. 10,

Philippine bet MJ Ordillano finished as second runner-up at the Mister Global 2026 pageant held in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday night.

Emma Tiglao has taken her final walk as Miss Grand International 2026, and perhaps her final walk in pageantry.

PRAGUE, Czechia - The International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber III will convene the fourth status conference on Tuesday, October 13, to discuss procedural matters before the trial of former President Rodrigo Duterte on crimes against humanity charges.

MANILA, Philippines — More than 1.56 million minimum wage earners in Calabarzon are expected to benefit from a daily wage increase of up to P45 starting Oct. 26, following the approval of a new wage order by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB 4A). Under Wage Order No. IVA-23, the maximum P45 daily

Davao City Rep. Paolo “Pulong” Duterte questioned why the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) needed his insights if it was confident in the results of the lie detector test administered to former police officer Rodulfo Gracioso Jr.

A group of demonstrators used a house of worship known as a gurdwara as a staging ground before their long-shot effort to reach a locked-down protest site in New Delhi.

SINGAPORE — Malacañang on Saturday told lawyer Manases “Mans” Carpio, husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, to pray to the “true God” for the truth to come out after he claimed he was being persecuted amid scrutiny of the couple’s financial transactions. Palace press officer Claire Castro made the remarks in response to Carpio’s claim

Angelica Lopez’s bid for a third consecutive Miss Grand International crown ended after she failed to advance to the Top 11 of the 2026 competition. ‎ ‎Her elimination came after the swimsuit round, where delegates strutted the runway in apple-green swimsuits to the tune of Dua Lipa’s “Whatchu Doing.” Côte d’Ivoire claimed the Best in Swimsuit award. ‎ ‎Advancing to the Top 11 were Thailand, Venezuela, the Netherlands, Tanzania, Mexico, Vietnam, Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, Côte d’Ivoire and Puerto Rico. ‎

KORONADAL CITY — Rescue teams are searching for a woman who was reportedly swept away by floodwaters in Arakan, Cotabato during the heavy rains Friday evening, Oct. 9. The downpours caused severe flooding, landslides and damage to roads and other infrastructure. The Arakan Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) confirmed on Saturday, Oct.

COTABATO CITY — Anti-narcotics operatives dismantled a drug den and arrested 11 suspected drug suspects in Mangudadatu, Maguindanao del Sur on Friday afternoon, Oct. 9. Colonel John Michael Mangahis, Maguindanao del Sur police director, said the buy-bust operation was conducted by joint police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents in Barangay Tumbao at about 3 p.m.

BACOLOD CITY— Mt. Kanlaon on Negros Island produced a moderately explosive eruption on Saturday, Oct. 10, sending an ash plume above its summit, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). In an advisory, Phivolcs said the eruption began shortly before 12:30 p.m. and ended at 12:48 p.m. Kanlaon Volcano remains under Alert

Chinese military aircraft may already be using a new joint aviation facility in Laos, with satellite imagery showing twice as many K-8/JL-8-family trainer aircraft there as the Laotian air force is assessed to possess. Eight of the two-seat trainer and light-attack aircraft were visible at Ban Keun Airport in commercial satellite imagery taken on September 30, according to Reuters, which first reported the images. More than two dozen military and support vehicles were also visible. The image was...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The seat of government of this highly urbanized city is set to be relocated from the downtown to the uptown area to help ease urban congestion. According to Jann Guillmore Actub, spokesperson of the Office of the City Mayor, the construction of a “world-class government complex” in a 22.9-hectare area

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Police arrested a 45-year-old man allegedly posing as an agent of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). The suspect reportedly evaded a checkpoint and threatened pursuing police officers in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat on Friday night, Oct. 9. Brig. Gen. Alan Manibog, Police Regional Office 12 director, said the suspect was driving

LUCENA CITY — Taal Volcano in Batangas recorded increased seismic activity over the past 24 hours, following a brief phreatomagmatic eruption on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. In its Saturday morning (Oct. 10) bulletin, Phivolcs reported 20 volcanic earthquakes and nine episodes of volcanic tremor, lasting two to seven minutes.

Angelica Lopez has bowed out of the Miss Grand International 2026 pageant.

Angelica Lopez has been honored with the Best National Costume award at the Miss Grand International 2026 coronation night in Bangkok, Thailand.

Angelica Lopez has advanced to the Top 25 of Miss Grand International 2026!

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday warned the public against a fake social media post claiming that the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) would be held on Dec. 14, 2026. In a post on its official Facebook page, Comelec said an image shared by the page “Katribu News Online” announcing

MANILA, Philippines—The Sandiganbayan Third Division has allowed former House Speaker Martin Romualdez to sign the court’s pre-trial order while at the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas, Quezon City. “The Sandiganbayan Third Division has GRANTED accused Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez’s motion to sign the Pre-trial Order at BJMP (Bureau of Jail Management and Penology) Payatas,

Vice President Sara Duterte thanked supporters of a movement calling for the release of former President Rodrigo Duterte from the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Lyazzat Khan, a proud resident of Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has quietly been building an empire of laughter. Originally from Kazakhstan, she is the mastermind behind Event Max, a business that brings Russian-speaking comedians to Korea. For Korea’s Russian-speaking population of nearly 200,000, there is a growing market for entertainment services. Most of these residents are Koryo-saram, or ethnic Koreans from former Soviet Union countries. Many are employed in the country’s light and heavy industry factories, working grueling hours. Leisure services for this group of workers remain underdeveloped, mostly because of the language barrier to accessing Korean entertainment. Over half of Korea’s Russian-speaking population lives in Ansan and Incheon, where in some neighborhoods, it is common to hear Russian spoken on the street. Restaurants and lounges catering specifically to Russian-speakers have sprung up in these neighborhoods since the early 2000s. However, a demand for more community-centered entertainment is on the rise as many businesses were shuttered during the pandemic. Ent

Researcher Song In-joo's father had been adamant that he did not want to die in a hospital, so she stayed by his side at home through his final days. "I realized that death isn't a momentary event, but a long, painful process. You have to work hard to die," Song said. "Everything is going as it should," her father said two days before he died. "I believe my father died peacefully, thanks to the care and human touch he received," Song said. "Death inevitably requires the help of others." That was in 2016. Song, then a senior research fellow at the Seoul Welfare Foundation and now head of Ssro Lab, began researching lonely deaths that year in hopes of preventing people from dying without care or human contact. To do so, she first had to determine who dies in isolation, why they become isolated and how they spend their final days. Since she could not ask the dead themselves, she analyzed police records on 20,000 unattended deaths and interviewed family members and neighbors to examine the circumstances surrounding lonely deaths — a process known as a "social autopsy." Song recently publishe

A Korean-born man who spent 14 years in a U.S. prison for armed robbery does not have to serve in the Korean military, a Seoul court has ruled, extending an exemption for convicted inmates to those who have served their jail sentences overseas. The ruling rejects the Military Manpower Administration's position that only inmates transferred to Korea to complete their sentences qualify for exemption. The court did, however, attach a condition meant to keep the exemption from becoming a loophole for draft evasion. Under the Military Service Act, anyone sentenced to 18 months or more in prison is placed in wartime labor service, a category that exempts a person from peacetime duty and calls him up only for labor support in the event of war. The man, whose name was withheld, moved to the U.S. with his family and later became a permanent resident there. He was convicted of robbery and aggravated assault in 2010 and was deported to Korea after completing his sentence last year. A physical examination classified him as eligible for alternative service as a social service agent, but he sought ass

Local governments across Korea are competing to host prisons, once widely regarded as undesirable facilities, as shrinking populations and struggling local economies prompt communities to seek new sources of jobs, residents and spending. Cheongsong and Yeongdeok counties in North Gyeongsang Province, Jecheon in North Chungcheong Province and Boeun County in the same province are among the municipalities that have entered the competition. According to the Ministry of Justice, Thursday, the government is seeking sites for four correctional facilities to address prison overcrowding and aging infrastructure. Each facility would accommodate 1,000 inmates and employ 250 permanent staff members, requiring at least 192,000 square meters of land. The four projects have a combined construction cost of 967.6 billion won ($680 million). They will be carried out as build-transfer-lease projects, under which private companies construct the facilities and transfer ownership to the government, which then pays rent for their use. Cheongsong is touting its experience as host to four correctional facilitie