EJ Obiena Defends His Asian Games Title With a New Games Record
EJ Obiena won the men’s pole vault at the 20th Asian Games on Tuesday night, September 29, in Nagoya. He cleared 5.91 meters, a new Games record. The old one, 5.90, was his own from Hangzhou in 2023. It was the Philippines’ third gold of…
BTS Sweeps All Three Categories at the 2026 MTV VMAs, Song of the Year Included
BTS won all three awards it was nominated for at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, held Sunday, September 27, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. “Swim” took Song of the Year and Best K-Pop. The group also won Best Group. “Swim”…
What Actually Makes Your Pet Good For You
For years, the story went like this. Get a pet, feel better. Lower stress, more steps, a built in reason to get off the couch. It turns out that’s half right. New research points to what the good part actually comes from. What the Basel study found…
Carlos Yulo and Chloe San Jose Announce Engagement, Nine Months After the Proposal
Carlos Yulo and Chloe San Jose are engaged. Yulo proposed on December 18, 2025, and the couple announced it on Monday, September 28, in posts on Instagram and Facebook. The announcement San Jose wrote that they spent the nine months keeping the news…
SB19 Receives Senate Recognition for Lollapalooza Debut
The Senate unanimously approved Senate Resolution 545 on Monday, September 28. The resolution honors SB19 for becoming the first Filipino act to perform at the Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago. Sen. Bam Aquino sponsored it. The group was at the…
Meta Removes the Camera From Its New AI Glasses
Meta showed off camera-free smart glasses at its Connect event on Wednesday, September 23. The model is called Ray-Ban Meta Audio. It starts at $349, opened for pre-order at the event, and ships October 13. Built on a camera, now selling without one…
Ten Filipino Engineers Are Building a Rocket for a 2027 Cagayan Launch
A ten-member team from the Philippine Space Agency is spending three months in South Korea learning how to build a rocket. The training runs from August to October 2026. It is preparation for a planned test launch in Lal-lo, Cagayan, in 2027. The…
Alex Eala Opens Asian Games Gold Bid Against Thailand’s Patcharin Cheapchandej
Alex Eala begins her Asian Games gold campaign Monday at the Higashiyama Park Tennis Center in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. The top seed and world No. 18 opens against Thailand’s Patcharin Cheapchandej in Round 2, after a first round bye. Game time and…
Why Long Weekends Rarely Deliver the Rest They Promise
A long weekend gets treated like a reward. Extra time off, no meetings, a chance to catch a breath after a stretch of work that finally let up. Most people spend the days before it picturing what they’ll do with the extra time, imagining themselves…
What P755 a Day Actually Covers in Metro Manila
Minimum wage earners in Metro Manila got a P60 raise this month. The National Capital Region wage board approved it under Wage Order No. NCR-28. Non-agricultural workers now earn P755 a day, up from P695. Agricultural workers and those at small retail,…
