Category: Philippines Daily Inquirer

The internet expression ’67’ was the most searched slang word in the Philippines from January to September 2026, according to research conducted by Word Unscrambler.

According to the study, ’67’ (pronounced ‘six-seven’), a nonsensical internet slang term and meme that generated 166,300 monthly searches, has no literal meaning. But ‘its absurdity is the point, making it a prime example of ‘brainrot’ internet humor where the randomness itself becomes funny.’

The term, which can mean ‘so-so’ or ‘maybe’ or be used as a random response, originated from Skrilla’s song ‘Doot Doot (6 7)’ and gained traction through a trending video referencing basketball player LaMelo Ball’s 6-foot-7 height. Since then, people around the world have ‘scream[ed] and chant[ed] it, often paired with exaggerated hand gestures.’

‘Rizz,’ with 34,900 monthly searches, came in second, Word Unscrambler said. The slang term refers to style, charm or attractiveness, specifically someone’s ability to attract a romantic partner or make others like them.

‘Gooning,’ which recorded 29,100 searches from Jan. 1 to Sept. 15, ranked third. It originated in certain online communities as a reference to prolonged sessions of sexual self-stimulation.

The term, however, evolved to casually refer to becoming overly obsessed with something, ‘essentially losing oneself in enthusiasm for an activity or interest,’ Word Unscrambler explained.

Its spokesperson, Randoh Sallihali, said the results ‘give insight into the cultural conversations happening in [the] Philippines,’ pointing out that ‘what people search for can tell us something about what they are trying to understand and participate in culturally.’

‘Slang may look like a collection of throwaway jokes from the internet, but psychology suggests it is doing something much more interesting. Using slang helps people navigate identity and belong to a community,’ he said.

The other terms on the list of the 15 most searched slang words included ‘mogging,’ ‘tuff,’ ‘cap’ and ‘no cap,’ ‘moots,’ ‘larping,’ ‘unc,’ ‘foid,’ ‘chopped,’ ‘chud,’ ‘aura,’ ‘cracked’ and ‘clock it,’ Word Unscrambler said.

‘Mogging,’ ‘mogged’ and ‘mog’ refer to outclassing a person, specifically in attractiveness, skill or success, and recorded 22,800 monthly searches. ‘Tuff,’ with 21,700 searches, is a variation of ‘tough’ that can also mean cool.

‘Cap,’ which generated 20,300 searches, refers to a lie, fake claim or exaggeration, while ‘no cap’ means someone is being truthful or serious. ‘Moots,’ meanwhile, generally describes social media users who follow each other and recorded 19,100 searches.

‘Larping’ or ‘larper,’ with 15,800 searches, describes someone perceived as pretending to be something they are not, while ‘unc,’ short for uncle, had 15,300 searches and is commonly used to describe someone perceived as old, out of touch or past their prime.

‘Foid,’ which recorded 14,400 searches, is a derogatory misogynistic term. ‘Chopped,’ with 11,600 searches, describes someone or something considered unattractive. ‘Chud,’ which had 9,400 searches, is generally used as an insult for an obnoxious person.

‘Aura,’ ‘aura points’ and ‘aura farming’ accounted for 9,100 monthly searches and refer to someone’s perceived coolness, swagger or presence, while ‘cracked,’ with 8,400 searches, describes someone who is exceptionally skilled in video games.

Last on the list, which was generated from Google Trends data, was ‘clock it,’ which recorded 7,200 searches and is used to express strong agreement with a sharp or truthful observation

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed Administrative Order No. 50, transferring the management of Mile-Long Property back to the Privatization and Management Office (PMO) to facilitate its disposition and maximize its value.

The PMO is an attached agency of the Department of Finance (DOF) that acts as the government’s marketing and disposition arm for state-owned or non-performing assets.

Located in Makati’s central business district, the 22,924-square-meter property was transferred to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority under Administrative Order No. 21, issued in 2020. It is registered under the national government.

The newly signed order reverted its administration and management to the PMO ‘as part of the government’s efforts to optimize the utilization of public assets, enhance fiscal space, and support priority development programs.’

Additionally, the PMO was directed to prepare and implement a privatization plan for the property in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, and in a transparent and competitive manner that ensures optimal value for the National Government.

Under AO 50, the Department of Budget and Management was directed to study and propose measures to ensure that proceeds from the property’s disposition will fund priority government programs.

It also said the PMO will seek the approval of the Privatization Council before proceeding with the property’s disposition.

Complex history

The property was occupied by Sunvar Realty Development Corp. until it was ordered to vacate the premises in 2017 in compliance with a court order. Sunvar is owned by the prominent Rufino-Prieto clan.

Three years later, the administration and management of the Mile-Long Property were transferred to the BCDA pursuant to AO No. 21, signed by then-President Rodrigo Duterte.

Duterte also ordered the property’s development to generate funds for priority programs, particularly pension programs for retired military and uniformed personnel.

The Inquirer sought further information from the PMO and the Palace regarding future plans for the Mile-Long Property but had yet to receive a response as of posting time

This central Pangasinan town has temporarily banned the entry and exit of live pigs and fresh and frozen pork to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF).

Executive Order No. 156 was issued after an emergency meeting on Thursday, after isolated ASF cases were detected in six barangays in the town.

The prohibition will run for 30 days from October 1, unless it is lifted, amended, revoked, or extended.

Bayambang is currently classified as a Red Zone for ASF.

Municipal Information Officer Rafael Saygo said the executive order is meant to strictly monitor the movement of pigs into and out of Bayambang, which is also implementing the Department of Agriculture’s new ASF guidelines.

If two to three confirmed hogs are infected with the disease and within a 500-meter radius, culling must be carried out under the Test-and-Destroy strategy protocols. If the pigs are still healthy and in good condition, the Test-and-Slaughter approach may be implemented, subject to the DA’s assessment and protocols.

‘We continue to coordinate with the concerned agencies to ensure that our response is properly and correctly implemented,’ Saygo said.

Among the measures are that all pigs and pork products transported into or out of Bayambang have complete permits, certificates, clearances, and other required documents. They must also comply with requirements of the DA, Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), and other concerned agencies.

Shipments must also pass through designated ASF inspection and quarantine checkpoints and comply with zoning, quarantine, and biosecurity protocols. Transporters must have proper authorization from the concerned government agencies.

ASF inspection and quarantine checkpoints will be established at strategic entry and exit points of the municipality.

Authorities may inspect and monitor commercial and backyard swine farms, meat processors and meat-packing establishments, supermarkets and groceries, public and private markets and talipapa, slaughterhouses, food establishments, and other facilities involved in the handling, transport, sale, processing or storage of pigs and pork products.

Saygo said the Revised Guidelines for Granting Cash Assistance to Hog Raisers Affected by ASF were also discussed, including cash assistance for affected hog raisers, with a maximum of P500,000.

The meeting also clarified how ASF is transmitted, noting that the virus is spread when it is transferred to pigs and not through the air

Control measures discussed included selective and non-selective depopulation, use of disinfectant spray-mounted trucks, intensive surveillance activities, heightened biosecurity and quarantine protocols, and zoning through the issuance of Certificates of Freedom from ASF

A Florida woman accused of driving across the country to fire a rifle at Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s home, hitting a trailer the celebrity couple was inside and a nursery where their kids were, has been indicted by a grand jury on 14 felony counts including attempted murder.

The indictment against 36-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz of Orlando was unsealed Wednesday by a Los Angeles County judge.

Ortiz, appearing in court wearing yellow jail clothes, spoke only to her attorney, who entered a not guilty plea for her. The judge then ordered her held on $2.6 million bail.

The move came a day after another judge ruled that Ortiz is mentally competent to stand trial. The secret grand jury proceedings were held as Ortiz was undergoing months of psychiatric evaluation. The jurors returned their indictment June 18, but it was kept under wraps for three months until the judge ruled on her competency. Now, a case that appeared stalled – possibly permanently – is on a fast track to trial.

No one was injured in the March 8 shooting. Authorities allege Ortiz drove a Tesla up to the gates of the Beverly Hills-area property of the singing superstar and her rap star partner, A$AP Rocky, pointed an AR-15 style rifle out the window and fired at least 20 rounds toward the property and the neighboring house.

‘This is a person who wanted to kill Rihanna,’ Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott said outside court. ‘Everyone else was collateral damage.’

Bullets tore through the Airstream trailer, according to a police report. Shots also struck the wall of their home’s nursery, where their three small children were with their nanny. Rihanna’s mother and several staffers also were in the home, and authorities say she also fired shots toward a neighbor’s house.

Both Rihanna and her mother, Monica Fenty, testified to the grand jury, as did Hollywood agent Tracey Jacobs, who was listed among the victims from the property in the indictment.

Their testimony remains under seal but will become public in about two weeks unless the defense seeks to keep them secret and the judge agrees.

Rihanna told investigators just after the shooting that she ‘suddenly heard approximately ten loud sounds like something banging on metal,’ and pulled Rocky out of a bed and onto the ground. She said she opened curtains and saw bullet marks in the windshield right in front of where she had been standing.

Deputy Public Defender Derek Dillman, Ortiz’s attorney, did not speak to reporters outside the courtroom, and a message seeking comment from the public defender’s office on the indictment was not immediately answered. Other than her not guilty pleas, her lawyers have not publicly addressed the charges, saying only that they would work to defend her rights.

Investigators said that on the day of her arrest, Ortiz told them: ‘I wasn’t attempting murder.’

Ortiz was charged with very similar counts in March. The new indictment supersedes those charges. The secret grand jury proceedings allow prosecutors to skip California’s preliminary hearing process, where evidence must be presented publicly to see if a trial is merited.

The indictment also charges Ortiz with 10 counts of assault with an assault weapon – one for each of the people on the two properties – and three counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper. It names the couple’s three children Rza, Riot and Rocki, all under age 5, as victims. The assault weapon counts carry a stiffer sentence than the original charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.

She could get life in prison if convicted of all counts.

Reports have been sealed on the psychiatric evaluations that paused the case shortly after it began, and there was no public discussion of the details of her mental state. Prosecutors have not said anything about a motive or cited any connection between Rihanna and Ortiz, a longtime licensed speech pathologist. But in videos posted on Facebook and YouTube in the months before the shooting, Ortiz made increasingly angry comments on Rihanna that sometimes took the form of threats, at one point calling her a ‘devil.’

A nine-time Grammy Award winner, Rihanna has had 14 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including ‘We Found Love,’ ‘Work,’ ‘Umbrella’ and ‘Disturbia.’

Davao City Register of Deeds lawyer Kathy Baldonado testifies on Day 32 of Vice President Sara Duterte impeachment trial that none of the properties declared by the vice president in her 2025 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN) matches the value of a P6 million property owned by her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio

A 31-year-old fisher from Maasin City, Southern Leyte was rescued on Wednesday, Sept.30, after his pump boat suffered engine failure while he was fishing in the waters off Limasawa Island, authorities said.

The fisher, a resident of Barangay Combado, had been out of communication with his family for more than 12 hours when the Coast Guard Sub-Station (CGS)-Southern Leyte and the Maasin City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) launched a search and rescue operation at around 9 a.m.

The fisher was located at about 10:30 a.m. by another fisher from Macrohon, Southern Leyte, who found him in the waters off Limasawa.

He was found dehydrated but otherwise in good condition, according to the rescuers.

Authorities said the fisher’s pump boat, described as white and red, bearing a Greenland flag and marked ‘BETH,’ had been last known to be operating near the waters of Loay, Bohol.

The CGS-Southern Leyte and CDRRMO Water Search and Rescue teams immediately deployed CDRRMO water assets after receiving the report and proceeded toward the fisherman’s last known location.

The search operation was coordinated with CGS-Bohol, local fishers, and neighboring local government units in the area.

Authorities later determined that the fisher’s boat had suffered engine failure, leaving him unable to return to shore on his own.

The boat was safely towed to shore in Macrohon, while the rescued fisher was brought back to Maasin City, where he was reunited with his family.

CDRRMO responders conducted an initial physical assessment and found that he did not require further medical assistance

Inherited property that is passed on to another after heirs deliberately waive their rights may be considered a lawful donation as long as the requirements under the law are met, the Supreme Court has ruled.

In a Feb. 19 decision that was released only on Wednesday, the high tribunal upheld the earlier rulings of the Court of Appeals (CA) and Davao City Regional Trial Court over two parcels of land in Davao City. They were left by a single woman who died in 2004 without any children or a will.

The lower courts had dismissed the petitions filed by one of the deceased’s siblings who sought to nullify the waivers of rights executed by their parents.

Under the Civil Code of the Philippines, the deceased’s parents were the rightful heirs of the property by way of intestate succession. The parents, however, decided to waive their rights to the inherited lots and transfer these to only two out of their five remaining children.

In challenging the waivers executed by their parents, the petitioner, identified as ‘Felix,’ argued that the documents ‘did not validly transfer ownership and cannot be considered donations.’

‘Donations inter vivos’

Felix claimed that this invalidated the extrajudicial settlement executed by his two other siblings, identified as ‘Robin’ and ‘Oasis,’ to make them recipients of the inherited property.

The high tribunal, however, disagreed with his arguments and pointed out that the waivers of inheritance rights signed by their parents were deemed ‘donations inter vivos,’ or while alive.

‘The CA correctly found that these requisites were sufficiently complied. The donations were made during the lifetime of [the parents], resulting in the reduction of their properties as donors and an increase in the patrimonies of Robin and Osias as donees,’ the high court said in its 16-page decision written by Justice Jhosep Lopez.

The waivers signed by the parents also showed their intent and the voluntary renunciation of their rights and interests over the property in question, it added.

‘The CA further found that such acceptance was made known to the donors … who were the very parties who executed the notarized waivers expressly authorizing the transfer,’ it added.

Because of the proof of documents executed for the transfer of inherited property, the Supreme Court said that Felix ‘failed to establish a right superior to that of respondents over the subject properties,’ adding that it found ‘no reason to disturb these factual findings.’

Mapua Malayan Colleges Laguna suspended its face-to-face classes and shifted to online classes on Thursday, October 1, due to a reported security concern in its campus.

The educational institution made the announcement on Thursday morning, with its directive to suspend onsite classes effective immediately.

‘On-site classes are suspended effective immediately today, October 1, 2026 as a precaution due to a reported security concern. Those with on-site classes will shift to synchronous classes online,’ it said in a statement.

However, it has not yet provided any details regarding the reported security issue.

It also said that the school administration is closely coordinating with the local law enforcement and emergency personnel to conduct a safety campus inspection

Former police officer Rodulfo Gracioso Jr.’s polygraph examination showed ‘no deception indicated’ in his sworn affidavit in connection with the suitcases of cash he delivered to Vice President Sara Duterte.

According to the polygraph examination result, the findings of his polygraph showed ‘no specific physiological reactions indicative of deception.’

The examination was made to verify the truthfulness of his affidavit dated Sept. 14.

Gracioso underwent a lie detector test at the National Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday, Sept. 30, in relation with his statement where he claimed to have delivered suitcases of cash to Sara Duterte, former President Rodrgo Duterte, and Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the Christmas genre after 30 years, this time taking on the role of Santa Claus in the upcoming holiday heist film ‘The Man with the Bag.’

Schwarzenegger last starred in a Christmas genre film in 1996 with ‘Jingle All the Way,’ a Christmas family comedy.

In ‘The Man with the Bag,’ Schwarzenegger stars as Santa, whose iconic red bag is stolen by a rogue elf with a grudge, played by Awkwafina. With Christmas at risk, Santa turns to a thief from his ‘Naughty List,’ played by Alan Ritchson, to help recover the stolen bag.

Ritchson’s character assembles a crew of criminally skilled misfits, with assistance from elves and reindeer, to pull off the biggest heist of their lives and save Christmas.

‘The Man with the Bag’ also stars Berkeley James, Michael Cyril Creighton, Liza Koshy, Kyle Mooney and Jane Krakowski, with Ken Jeong and Awkwafina.

Adam Shankman directed the film from a screenplay by Allan Rice. Producers are Lawrence Grey, Ben Everard, Reg Tigerman, Dan Spilo and Ritchson.

The film is set to premiere globally on Prime Video on Dec. 2.