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30/07/2025

The food scene in Marikina City is bustling, but not all small food businesses enjoy an equal helping of visibility.

Read more: https://coverstory.ph/in-marikina-micro-eateries-present-a-balance-between-tradition-and-technology/

29/07/2025

How will the tiny progressive bloc in the 20th Congress, caught between the Marcos-Duterte family feud, play its cards? And what does all this mean for the country’s tarnished record of accountability?

1. Vice President Sara Duterte’s trial: Will it finally happen during the 20th Congress?

29/07/2025

Kikik Kollektive, an independent collective who connects with grassroots communities, has amplified the declaration and campaign of small-fishers in this year’s Art for Everyone 2025 at SM City Iloilo.

Read full story: https://coverstory.ph/kikik-kollektives-art-exhibit-amplifies-poor-fishers-defense-of-15-km-municipal-waters/

29/07/2025

LOOK: Tension and traffic build as police and protesters converge on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on the day of Sona 2025.

Photos by Bullit Marquez

28/07/2025

LOOK: Protesters burn an effigy of President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, depicted as zombies, during a rally along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on Monday, July 28. The demonstration coincides with Marcos' fourth State of the Nation Address.

Photos by Bullit Marquez

28/07/2025

"Vice President Sara Duterte and her younger brother, Acting Mayor Sebastian 'Baste' Duterte of Davao City, have managed to evade confrontations of their making," Rosario A. Garcellano writes in her latest commentary.

Read here: https://coverstory.ph/saras-impeachment-trial-bastes-boxing-bout-and-the-worsening-floods-of-our-lives/

27/07/2025

With many communities in the province of Antique staggering from heavy rain, flooding, and storm surges for more than a week, the provincial board declared a state of calamity during a special session held on July 25.

Read full report: https://coverstory.ph/like-many-other-areas-nationwide-storm-battered-antique-put-under-state-of-calamity/

27/07/2025

Once a forgotten 38-hectare island named after the winds that blow through it, Mariahangin is close to Sabah and part of the municipality of Balabac. Remote and accessible only by boat, Mariahangin will soon be the site of two airports and a roro (roll-on, roll-off) sea port, making it more accessible to trade and tourism. The area is now potentially valuable real estate.

Nario, a fisherman and father to two young children, now patrols the beaches of Mariahangin Island at night, joining a vigil of volunteer families.

27/07/2025

Gasoline prices are set for a slight rollback starting Tuesday, July 29, but diesel and kerosene will still see price hikes.

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26/07/2025

LIPA, BATANGAS—It all came together for three childhood friends when they sent out the invites to the blessing of their Pilates studio in this city south of Manila. They had been planning this project for ages.

Read the full story of how Hazel, Harriet, and Marichelle built CoreHaus Pilates—and why this "home-like" studio could be your next fitness destination: https://coverstory.ph/stuff-of-dreams-childhood-friends-all-student-athletes-open-a-pilates-studio/

26/07/2025

Sen. Risa Hontiveros voices disappointment over "the Supreme Court's sudden stoppage of the impeachment trial against Vice President Sara Duterte." Hontiveros said she was puzzled at how the “one year bar rule was violated when there is only one case brought before the Senate.”

Read TJ Burgonio's full report: https://coverstory.ph/supreme-court-strikes-down-impeachment-complaint-against-vp-sara-duterte/

26/07/2025

In December 2024, the lawyer Leila de Lima told CoverStory that the “escalation of misbehavior” on the part of the Vice President and the series of disclosures on her possible misuse of public funds should have prompted the investigating House committee to file an impeachment complaint against her.

“It’s the view of the complainants that this is the right thing to do at this point because we can’t afford to see further misbehavior, further blatant acts of violation of law and violation of the Constitution, violation of the principles of transparency and accountability,” De Lima said.

Read full report: https://coverstory.ph/impeachment/