Philippines Star

In marking the seventh anniversary of the South China Sea ruling on July 12, the United States urged China to follow international law and stop harassing vessels of claimant states operating in their exclusive economic zones.

President Marcos is set to sign into law next week the Maharlika Investment Fund bill, which his administration considers as a landmark measure, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said yesterday.

Taxes that “hit the rich” will be discussed before any tax on junk food and sweetened beverages, Albay Rep. Joey Salceda vowed as Congress is set to resume session on July 24.

One in every four Filipinos burned garbage despite a two-decade-old law prohibiting the open burning of solid waste, according to a survey conducted by Social Weather Stations.

The National Economic and Development Authority has underscored the need to invest in lifelong learning, promoting job creation and increasing employability to maximize the country’s demographic dividend.

The Philippines and Brunei are taking steps to further enhance the security cooperation between the two nations to combat violent extremism.

The House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms has adopted a measure urging the Commission on Elections to use the automated election system for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections.

A majority of Filipinos support the establishment of more alliances and the strengthening of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to protect the country’s territory in the West Philippine Sea, a commissioned survey conducted by Pulse Asia showed.

Transport groups are set to stage another strike starting on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s second State of the Nation Address, this amid continuing uncertainty for drivers and operators regarding the state's public utility vehicle modernization program.

The last pending drug case against former Sen. Leila De Lima has been raffled off to a new court in Muntinlupa, after two judges inhibited from the proceedings in past weeks.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration found that China's nine-dash-line claim had no legal basis under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

There is no nine-dash line in the Barbie movie.

"Commemorating our 2016 victory every year can help weaken China’s spurious claims over our own territories," Hontiveros said.

“It is a settled landmark and a definitive contribution to the progressive development of international law. It is ours as much as it is the world's,” the DFA said. 

Senior high school graduates are more likely to earn higher wages than graduates of the old high school curriculum, a new study by a state think has found, lending new evidence in favor of K to 12's impact on students' employment prospects. 

The high court has also noted Acosta’s “unabated public tirades against Canon III, Section 22 through social and mainstream media, branding the adoption of the CPRA as unconstitutional, and an undue interference and intrusion by the [SC] into PAO’s operations.”

On the seventh anniversary of the Hague ruling that struck down China’s claims over parts of the West Philippine Sea, the United States pressed China to cease its "routine harassment" of maritime vessels and finally comport with the tribunal’s 2016 decision. 

The Supreme Court has released the list of local testing centers for the 2023 Bar examinations.

The government can still tap nearly P15 billion in calamity funds to finance various disaster relief operations for the second semester of the year.

The Senate is targeting the passage of a measure imposing a value-added tax on digital services like Netflix and Disney Plus, among others, so that the government can collect up to P145 billion in VAT from 2024 to 2028, according to Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian.