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MANILA, Philippines – The grind seemed to have caught up with Alex Eala.

Eala crashed out of the opening round of the Bad Homburg Open in Germany following a 6-3, 6-3 loss to world No. 26 Elise Mertens of Belgium on Monday, June 22 (Tuesday, June 23, Manila time).

Playing in her 12th match in 22 days, Eala failed to sustain a promising start as she suffer...

I flew into New York from my home in Manila for a little more than 24 hours. I landed near midnight on Friday, June 19, and finished writing my speech around 3 am. It was the first time we were doing anything like this: briefing member states of the United Nations about the status of the preliminary report on the technology that’s turning our world upside down.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) criticized the Chinese embassy in Manila late Monday, June 22, after it published social media posts belittling the 2016 arbitral ruling on the South China Sea and claiming Scarborough Shoal, about 120 nautical miles off Zambales province, as its territory.

“The Department of Foreign Affairs ...

SARANGANI, Philippines – Adelina T. Recto Elementary School principal Gerlita Wata tells Rappler the school barely has enough to start over and resume classes after a powerful Mindanao earthquake destroyed all their classrooms in Glan, Sarangani, on June 8.

Still carrying out her duties as school head, Wata tends to concerned students and parents from her “new o...

MANILA, Philippines – Francisco (Mekkhala) strengthened from a typhoon into a super typhoon at 8 pm on Monday, June 22, then maintained its strength before dawn on Tuesday, June 23, while over the sea east of Northern Luzon.

As of 4 am on Tuesday, Francisco was already 410 kilometers east of Aparri, Cagayan, moving west northwest at just 10 kilometers per hour (km/h...