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MANILA, Philippines — The 83-man Philippine rescue team has already arrived in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) announced. OCD Joint Information Center head Diego Agustin Mariano said the plane landed at 12:08…
More than 70,000 kilograms of smuggled onions earlier seized by authorities were destroyed in Zamboanga City due to public safety concerns. Zamboanga City Vice Mayor Josephine Pareja expressed regret at seeing tons of red and yellow onions…
MANILA, Philippines — The arrest of a university professor for an alleged labor violation drew outrage in her own community, which cited an accord with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) restricting police presence…
MANILA, Philippines — Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco on Thursday backed a proposal to extend holidays and weekends. Senator Raffy Tulfo filed Senate Bill No. 1651, seeking to extend weekends to promote the growth of local tourism. “In…
BACOLOD CITY — The New People’s Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the burning of five sugarcane trucks in Toboso town, Negros Occidental on Monday, December 26. In a statement on Tuesday, December 27, Cecil Estrella, spokesperson of…
TAGBILARAN CITY — Tita Teves-Maldora has stopped selling red onions at her stall at the Cogon Public Market here. The high price forced her and some vendors to stop selling red onions for two weeks. “It’s really…
MANILA, Philippines – Mobile subscribers are reportedly dealing with technical difficulties during the first day of SIM (subscriber identity module) card registration. “Due to the high volume of registrants, some subscribers may experience difficulty accessing the SIM…
MANILA, Philippines — Contractual state workers, who comprise more than one-fourth of the nearly 2.5 million government employees, should receive 13th-month pay just like other civil servants, according to Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. Revilla, chair of the…
ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — The provincial board of Aklan has opposed moves to allow the entry of international flights into Boracay Airport in Malay town, the jump-off point to the resort island of Boracay. According to…
BRUSSELS — For the first time, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has publicly expressed support for the controversial Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) that seeks to establish a P275 billion sovereign wealth fund. Speaking to reporters aboard PR001 en…
MANILA, Philippines — A district office chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and two other agents have been arrested in a buy-bust operation in Taguig City. In a police report on Wednesday, the National…
MANILA, Philippines — A businessman from Mindanao said he lost over P5 million to a group of people who offered him a cut of P700 million from the sale of over P17-trillion worth of “Marcoses’ gold” allegedly…
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