With the -ber months fast approaching, many Filipinos are mapping out year-end trips, family reunions, or long-awaited vacations abroad.

Notarized deeds of donation and testimony in a plunder case show that a total P75 million given to Senator Rodante Marcoleta by former congressman Mike Defensor, and businessmen Joseph Espiritu and Aristotle Viray was intended to support the lawmaker’s 2025 senatorial campaign, rather than for personal use.

Persistent power alerts in the Visayas have prompted the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association Inc. (PHILRECA) to call for major government-led structural reforms in the energy sector.