Fifty years after the final Apollo mission in 1972, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) “successfully” launched Artemis I at Kennedy Space Center in Florida last Wednesday,  November 16, 2022, at 2:04 PM (GMT+8). 

Layer after layer, the boy tore through it all — wrappers, plastic, bubble wrap, to name a few. His excitement shrunk at the same rate his gift’s size did as if half of the enormity of the gift box the delivery man gave him was just measly packaging. After all the layers of torn paper and cut ribbons, he is left with two things: One, a new, shiny, red plastic car, and two, heaps and heaps of packaging waste.

Suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag not only faced issues related to the murder of Percival “Percy Lapid”, but is also associated with other controversies during his time as corrections chief.

Recently, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos has been under heavy flak for some of his recent statements. These include his suggestions for Filipino rice farmers to switch to producing dragon fruit during the Taiwanese off-seasons, and his claims that the Philippine Peso is weak due to the fact that the U.S. Dollar is strong.

Nine-year-old Bince Rafael Operiano from Oas, Albay was hailed the champion of the recently-concluded 6th Eastern Asia Youth Chess Championship, held in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday, November 12.

“The Sierra Madre mountain range doing her thing,” sabi sa isang post mula sa Twitter. Umalingawngaw ng mga panawagan at paghanga sa kapangyarihang taglay ng Sierra Madre ang iba’t ibang plataporma ng midya. Ito ang parehong araw kung kailan tumama sa kalupaan ng Luzon ang bagyong Karding na siyang agarang humina nang makadaupang-palad ang bulubundukin. 

An estimated 9,207 examinees convened at 14 testing centers nationwide, Wednesday, November 9, with the hope of passing the 2022 Bar Examinations. 

With the goal of ensuring collaborative and collective action between all countries to implement climate initiatives, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference — Conference of the Parties (COP27) — is currently being held at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 until November 18. 

Gaze up from the foot of the hill. Above it, an eagle soars. There are many of you who lie beneath its watchful eye—determined, doubtful, yearning students, armed with but pen and mind. Lines of information familiar like the back of a hand, and dreams of a distant future are but left to thrum through a beating heart. Months of earnest preparation have boiled down to this—but the battle is never truly over until the questionnaire graces the desk.

The Senate approved the proposed Php 8.9-billion budget of the Office of the President (OP) for 2023, including Php 4.5-billion in confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) last November 10.

Prior to the funding’s approval, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III requested the OP to justify the necessity for the Php 4.5-billion CIF, which accounts for over half of their office’s total budget.

“Why should the Office of the President be given intelligence funds at 2.25 billion pesos when there [are] already existing intelligence agencies and units which can serve the intelligence needs of the Office of the President or the President himself,” Pimentel asked as he affirmed it was “questionable” to give that funding to the OP.