15 Facts About Ces Drilon

Ces Drilon anchored news and public affairs programs for the News and Current Affairs division of ABS-CBN Corporation from 1989 to 2020.

Ces Drilon's reporting on the capture of Army renegade Col.

Ces Drilon appeared regularly on The World Tonight as the program's business correspondent.

Ces Drilon later presented several news and current affairs programs for ABS-CBN and for the ABS-CBN News Channel, including Pipol and The Correspondents.

Since the 2000s, Orena-Ces Drilon has served as a co-anchor of the ABS-CBN late-night news program Bandila with Korina Sanchez and Henry Omaga-Diaz, and as an alternate anchor for TV Patrol.

In 2007, Orena-Ces Drilon was among several Filipino journalists covering the Manila Peninsula rebellion who were briefly detained by the Philippine military, shortly after the mutiny was quashed.

In July 2020, Orena-Ces Drilon was retrenched by ABS-CBN as the network was shut down by both the National Telecommunications Commission and Office of the Solicitor General last May due to an expired franchise and Congress rejected its fresh 25-year franchise.

In December 2022, Orena-Ces Drilon joined CNN Philippines, where she would host Usapang Bilyonaryo.

On February 26,2025, Orena-Ces Drilon resumed her role as a news anchor, joining One News as the main anchor of The Big Story.

Ces Drilon officially began anchoring the program on March 3,2025.

Orena-Ces Drilon's team was invited by Professor Octavio Dinampo, an academic at the Mindanao State University, Sulu.

Orena-Ces Drilon was the third local journalist to be kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf after 2000.

Ces Drilon condemned the abductors, who tied them and slapped her during the dire detention.

Ces Drilon announced the airing of a segment on the physical and psychological effects of the Mindanao conflict on Armed Forces of the Philippines's soldiers.

Ces Drilon graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication research.