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MANILA, Philippines --- That Dicta License no longer makes heavy rap metal songs is a fact that fans of the genre would have to contend with. But even if the new album "Pagbigkas" presents a different sound, there are still plenty of reasons why people should listen to it. Actually, it seems appropriate for Filipinos to hear their music now as the country appears lost on how to solve the pandemic and other political problems. Inside the 12-track album released last April 9 (Araw ng Kagitingan), only one or two songs bear a resemblance to the Dicta License of old, which has been compared with progressive rock band Rage Against the Machine. But the messaging --- something that...

Keep on reading: Evolution of the revolution: Dicta License is back to remind everyone why we must ask questions

CEBU CITY---The 35-year-old woman who was allegedly robbed by at least 11 policemen in the city and raped by one of them was gunned down by still unknown assailants on Natalio Bacalso Avenue past 6 p.m. on Monday (April 19). Maj. Alejandro Batobalonos, chief of the police's Integrity Monitoring and Enhancement Group (IMEG) Visayas Field Unit, said Ritchie Nepomuceno was shot repeatedly and killed about a month after she filed criminal complaints against 11 police officers assigned to the Sawang Calero police station in the city. Nepomuceno, a resident of Minglanilla town, south Cebu, died from multiple gunshot wounds. Police gave no other details on the killing of Nepomuceno as ...

Keep on reading: Woman who sued 11 Cebu City cops for robbery, rape gunned down

The Utah Jazz will look for some payback in the second of back-to-back games against the host Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night. The Lakers posted a 127-115 overtime victory on Saturday, led by Andre Drummond's 27 points, along with his eight rebounds. Point guard Dennis Schroder finished with 25 points, eight assists and six rebounds. However, Utah head coach Quin Snyder rested Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley Jr. and Derrick Favors with his team playing in the second of back-to-back games after a home win against the Indiana Pacers on Friday. Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell also did not play Saturday due to a right ankle sprain that will keep him out for the next several games. Th...

Keep on reading: Jazz aim for payback against Lakers

A planned breakaway Super League announced by twelve of European football's most powerful clubs and backed by US investment bank JP Morgan was roundly condemned by fans and federations across the continent on Monday, with UEFA meeting to hold crisis talks over the threat posed to its flagship competitions. Six Premier League teams -- Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur -- joined forces with Spanish giants Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid and Italian trio Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan to launch the planned competition. A joint statement said three more clubs would be invited to join the founding members before the ...

Keep on reading: Super League announcement opens unprecedented conflict in European football

MANILA, Philippines --- An official from the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) admitted to House lawmakers on Monday that there is "no plan B" should the temporary cut on pork import tariffs and the increase in importation not lead to lower prices. "Sa computation po namin, walang [In our computation, there is no] Plan B kasi [because] we really want to quickly lower the price," NEDA Undersecretary Mercedita Sombilla said during a joint hearing of the House agriculture and trade committees on Monday. This, after Navotas City Rep. John Rey Tiangco, chairperson of the trade panel, asked NEDA if it readied a Plan B if lowering pork import tariffs and increasing the mi...

Keep on reading: ‘No plan B’ if pork prices not lowered amid tariff cut, hike in imports, solons told

The "Downton Abbey" film is getting the band back together.

MANILA, Philippines ---At least one person was killed as typhoon Bising (international name: Surigae) crossed the edge of the Philippines on Monday, dumping heavy rain that flooded dozens of villages and forced thousands to leave their homes. Bising packed sustained wind speeds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) an hour at its center, about 500 kilometers off the Philippines, and was not expected to make landfall in the disaster-prone archipelago, according to the government weather service. But strong winds and heavy rain reached the central region of the Eastern Visayas, where about 66 villages were flooded, the regional civil defense office said. A 79-year-old man was killed after...

Keep on reading: One dead as Typhoon Bising skirts the Philippines

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he would do everything possible to ensure that a proposed breakaway Super League of twelve major European football clubs would not go ahead as planned. "We are going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this doesn't go ahead in the way that it's currently being proposed," Johnson said in a pooled interview. "I don't think that it's good news for fans, I don't think it's good news for football in this country." RELATED STORIES Explainer: Key facts about the European Super League UEFA threatens to ban breakaway clubs from all competitions ...

Keep on reading: UK’s Johnson says will try to stop Super League plans

CNN's Brianna Keilar rolls the tape on how Fox News uses it's on-screen graphics to push misinformation about President Joe Biden and the pandemic to its audience.

It's game over for GameStop CEO George Sherman. The video game retailer and meme stock announced Monday that Sherman will be stepping down on July 31 -- or earlier if a successor is found.

As health officials discussed how to handle reports of blood clots possibly linked to Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine, one option considered was issuing a warning to health care providers without recommending a full pause, multiple sources told CNN.

MANILA, Philippines --- The government has earmarked P1.5 billion to respond to the needs of people affected by Typhoon Bising, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday. According to DSWD, they have already prepared emergency relief supplies as early as April 16, which includes "stockpiles and standby funds" like the P517 million quick response budget from its central office. Latest forecast from the state weather bureau indicated that Bising was moving slowly off the eastern section of the country. "Based on the 6PM, April 16 report of the Disaster Response Management Bureau (DRMB), the DSWD maintains stockpiles and standby funds amounting to more...

Keep on reading: DSWD: Gov’t allocates P1.5 billion for ‘Bising’ disaster response

US investment bank JPMorgan on Monday confirmed it is financing the breakaway Super League featuring 12 of Europe's top football clubs, which threatens to shake up the world's biggest sport. "I can confirm that we are financing the deal, but have no further comment at the moment," a bank spokesman said in a statement to AFP. Each of the clubs from England, Italy and Spain will receive a one-off payment of 3.5 billion euros ($4.2 billion). Six Premier League teams -- Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham -- are involved, alongside Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan. The clubs were immediately ...

Keep on reading: US bank JPMorgan financing football Super League

Former President Barack Obama and NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal joined a slate of celebrities in urging Americans to get vaccinated during an hour-long NBC special aimed at boosting vaccine confidence.

"Annette," a musical starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver will open the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on July 6.

Translation tools from Alphabet Inc's Google and other companies could be contributing to significant misunderstanding of legal terms with conflicting meanings such as "enjoin," according to research due to be presented at an academic workshop on Monday. Google's translation software turns an English sentence about a court enjoining violence or banning it, into one in the Indian language of Kannada that implies the court ordered violence, according to the new study "Enjoin" can refer to either promoting or restraining an action. Mistranslations also arise with other contronyms, or words with contradictory meanings depending on the context, including "all over," "eventual," and "gar...

Keep on reading: Google translation AI botches legal terms ‘enjoin,’ ‘garnish’ – research