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Globe AT HOME is rolling out community-based broadband centers across the Visayas region to make reliable home internet more accessible and easier to avail for local households. These new facilities are set up directly within barangays, solving a common challenge for families who previously had to travel far to get information, apply for services, or receive assistance with their internet connection needs.

The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) has strongly denounced the dumping of trash in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region XI office, describing the act as illegal and an unhelpful distraction from urgent work following the May 20 trash‑slide at the Davao City Sanitary Landfill. That incident killed two people, injured two others, and left one person still being recovered.

The Philippines' intellectual property rulebook was written when dial-up internet was still a novelty. Nearly three decades later, regulators say the law is showing its age.

What if the next big idea in architecture doesn't come from a gleaming skyscraper in New York or a futuristic smart city in Europe—but from a barangay road, a bamboo structure, or a centuries-old Filipino building tradition?