The Malaysian government yesterday described as an “act of banditry” and not of terrorism the abduction of its two nationals and an Indonesian by armed men on the sea border between Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Typhoon “Cosme’’ yesterday moved northeast away from the country, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said yesterday.
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Operatives of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have arrested another top leader of the Abu Sayyaf — who carried a R1-million cash reward for his arrest — during a raid in his safehouse in Lamitan, Basilan.
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The Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) is in the red.
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Government should draw up a registry of Filipinos working in Iraq so it would not end up being clueless again if one of them is snatched such as the Filipino driver who was taken but later freed on Monday by anti-US rebels in the strife-torn country.
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Lorenzo at radio agri-course rites
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Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay criticized the administration’s move to allocate at least P100 billion to provide scholarships for poor Filipinos citing that the project will burden the already cash-strapped, huge fiscal deficit of the government.
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Interior and Local Government Secretary Jose Lina Jr. has ordered the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) to step up security in all district, city, and municipal jails nationwide to prevent the occurrence of jailbreaks following the incident in Basilan on Saturday where 36 suspected Abu S
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The needs of some 1,100 families affected by the fire that broke out at Maestranza in Intramuros at about past midnight Sunday, April 11 continue to be met by the Manila Department of Social Welfare headed by Dr. Jose Baranda. Relief operations started as soon as the fire was put out before seven Su
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The local office of the Commission on Elections in Valenzuela City has denied reports that the city has the second most number of “hot spots” in Metro Manila in the coming May 2004 elections.
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Chances better if Ping gives way to FPJ — Nene
Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) senatorial bet Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel on Monday said that the chances to topple the ruling administration will be better assured if independent candidate Panfilo “Ping” Lacson gives way to KNP standard bearer
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Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando ordered the retraining of 200 former members of the Sidewalk Clearing Operations (SCO) from their traffic duties for being harsh to motorists, particularly to passenger bus drivers.
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Former Rizal Gov. Reynaldo San Juan urged yesterday the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to implement a closure order on an 80-hectare Lakeshore dumpsite in sitio Arrienda, Taytay, Rizal.
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MANILA (PNA) — At least 1.2 million coordinators and supporters of a big multi-sectoral organization are now reportedly campaigning actively for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to ensure her victory on May 10 national elections.
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The employees of Maynilad have asked the regional trial court (RTC) of Quezon City to disapprove the debt/equity swap deal between MWSS and Maynilad.
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Lions Int’l Dist. 301-D2 honors new members
For more than 80 years, the men and women of Lions Clubs International have never hesitated to get involved. Today Lions Club members from District 301-D2 celebrate the future of community service as they honor new members during Lions Worldwide Induction
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QUEZON CITY — Former Agriculture Secretary Salvador Escudero III said over the weekend that the importation of carabao meat from India as well as “duty-free pork” from the Netherlands are adversely affecting and slowly killing the livelihood of the country’s own livestock and hog raisers.
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MANILA — Labor and Employment Secretary Patricia A. Sto. Tomas yesterday welcomed the Irish government’s initiative to strengthen its capacity to attract and retain skilled workers, especially nurses and professionals by giving their spouses easier and greater access to employment in Ireland.
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A man was found dead in the location of the fire that destroyed some P5 million worth of properties at the Spanlace Marketing on Boni Avenue Barangay Plainview, Mandaluyong City over the weekend, police said yesterday.
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MANILA — Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino standard bearer and former Mayor Mel Lopez yesterday disclosed that multi-sectoral groups have expressed support to his campaign for the prioritization of education, health services, youth welfare and development under this Tao Muna (People First) reform a
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Muntinlupa City is probably the only local government unit (LGU) in the country which has settled in full its obligations to some national government agencies putting a stop to rumors that it is negligent to such duties particularly to the Government service Insurance System (GSIS).
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Four men believed to be the suspects in the killing of a Chinese businessman barely three weeks ago were arrested while playing cards (pusoy) and used shabu as their bet money Sunday night in Pasay City.
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MANILA — From Malacañang drivers and household helps, medical services of Malacañang Clinic have been expanded to cover employees under the Office of the President and their dependents and later to poor patients not only from neighboring barangays in San Miguel district but from other areas in Metro
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The four city-owned hospitals in Manila – the Ospital ng Maynila, the Gat Andres Bonifacio Medical Center, the Ospital ng Tondo, and the Ospital ng Sampaloc – have adequate supply of medicines.
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Users, dealers, manufacturers, financiers and protectors of illegal drugs better now end doing their illicit business in Quezon City as the city government adopted an all-inclusive program to keep in check, if not totally eradicated, the drug menace.
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The strict implementation of the “No Plate, No Travel” policy has proven effective in curbing and resolving the incidence of high-profile crimes in Metro Manila.
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Downtown Manila today is a world apart from that of just two years ago, when the city center labored through the urban schizophrenia of many downtowns. By day, it was a congested, polluted, and dirty central business district for commerce. By night, it was a place that people fled for safer and more
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With only 26 days before the May 10 elections, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay is now stepping up his national campaign to advance the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) slate and his local campaign as mayoralty re-electionist of the country’s financial district.
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At least 65 individuals were rescued from the streets of Pasay in the continuing program of Pasay City Mayor Wenceslao “Peewee” B. Trinidad to free the city’s major thoroughfares from streetchildren, street families, psychotic vagrants and Badjao mendicants. Such untiring efforts of the city governm
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