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Long wait for a bus ride

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 08 02:35 PM

Commuters queue to ride a bus operating under the transportation department’s bus augmentation program at the MRT-3 Quezon Avenue station in Quezon City on Wednesday.  Read more »

Healthy seas amid COVID-19 lockdown

Carmelo Isgro - MuMa Museo del Mare di Milazzo/Handout via Reuters
Posted at Jul 07 02:07 PM

A pod of sperm whales are seen swimming off the Sicilian coast of Milazzo , in this video framegrab taken on June 29, 2020. Read more »

Labor group calls for ABS-CBN franchise renewal

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 06 01:32 PM

Press freedom and workers’ rights advocates join ABS-CBN employees during a solidarity event calling for the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise outside the House or Representatives on Monday. Read more »

Search and rescue after Japan flooding

JIJI Press, AFP
Posted at Jul 06 08:43 AM

Residents are evacuated from a flood-affected area by rubber boats in Kuma village, Kumamoto prefecture, on Sunday.  Read more »

Over a dozen feared dead after Japan landslide

Jiji Press, AFP
Posted at Jul 05 09:22 AM

Fire fighters carry a person covered by a blue sheet at the site of a landslide caused by heavy rain in Ashikita, Kumamoto prefecture on Saturday. Read more »

Philippine Red Cross gives cash aid to Tondo families

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 03 03:23 PM

Residents of Tondo, Manila line up for the cash assistance program of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) at the Dr. Juan G. Nolasco Highschool on Friday. Read more »

Green light for jeepney operations

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 02:49 PM

Drivers prepare their jeepneys with plastic barriers in preparation for the possible resumption of jeepney operations in Quezon City on Thursday. Read more »

Waiting for a way back home

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 23 05:27 PM

Children run around as other stranded individuals stay at the Philippine Army Gym at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig on Tuesday.  Read more »

Baguio public market without the crowd

Jojo Riñoza, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 07:12 PM

Baguio is under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) and is strictly implementing health protocols.  Read more »

Back to ECQ in Cebu City

Annie Fe Perez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 16 08:05 PM

Motorists queue at a checkpoint at the North Reclamation Area bordering Cebu and Mandaue cities Tuesday, after Cebu City was placed under ECQ due to the rising COVID-19 cases. Read more »

Pope Francis celebrates feast of Corpus Christi

Vatican Media, AFP
Posted at Jun 14 08:04 PM

Pope Francis holds the monstrance during a Holy Mass on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ at St. Peter's Basilica in The Vatican on Sunday. Read more »

The future of schooling: Social distancing for students in Japan

Kyodo via Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 01:51 PM

Elementary school students observe social distancing to reduce the risk of infections with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the school gradually reopened after the government announced the lifting of the state of emergency in Tokyo area. Read more »

Observing physical distancing at MRT-3

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 31 05:22 PM

The Metro Rail Transit conducts a test run on physical distancing guidelines on Sunday, a day before Metro Manila transitions to general community quarantine. Read more »

Abe lifts state of emergency in Japan

Charly Triballeau, AFP
Posted at May 25 09:53 PM

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (top right) is seen on a live TV broadcast in Tokyo’s Shinjuku area on Monday.  Read more »

Checking for COVID-19 in Cubao

Aaron Favila, AP
Posted at May 20 04:58 PM

A health worker wearing a protective suit arranges papers as a random rapid testing for COVID-19 is conducted inside a columbarium at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral of Cubao complex in Metro Manila on Wednesday. Read more »

Trump visits mask manufacturing facility

Tom Brenner, Reuters
Posted at May 06 01:22 PM

U.S. President Donald Trump looks at a protective mask being shown to him by Honeywell's Vice President of Integrated Supply Chain Tony Stallings during a tour of Honeywell's facility manufacturing face masks for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. on Tuesday. Read more »

‘Mask saves’

Leo Correa, AP
Posted at May 05 08:13 AM

Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue is lit up as if wearing a protective mask, with message “mask saves” written in Portuguese, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday. Read more »

Dry season nears

Basilio H. Sepe, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 13 08:23 PM

Children use boats docked near the Baseco Compound in Manila as makeshift diving platforms as they cool off in Manila Bay on Friday.  Read more »

WOMEN'S DAY: Filipino female workers in Hong Kong send remittance home

Jan Yumul, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 09 10:03 AM

Scene at #WorldWidePlaza in Central, Hong Kong today, March 8, 2020, where an overwhelming majority of women pack remittance centers to send money back home to the Philippines, as the world marks International Women's Day, amid a global #COVID19 scare. Read more »

PNP chief Gamboa, 7 others survive helicopter crash

Photo courtesy of Bernard Peralta
Updated as of Mar 05 11:45 AM

Rescue teams check the wreckage of the Bell 429 chopper carrying Philippine National Police Chief Gen. Archie Gamboa after a crash in Laguna on Thursday morning. Read more »