Malacañang yesterday wished for the swift recovery of ailing detained former President Joseph Estrada, who was hospitalized due to slight pneumonia.
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Most Filipino families are receptive to the government’s family planning a campaign, a recent survey said.
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The election lawyer of the late opposition presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. challenged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday to order the recount of the votes cast for president during the May 2004 elections.
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9 suspected robbers fall
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Computers may be a boon to education – but they can also be the bane of students and even teachers and parents.
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A female lawyer who heads the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) in Las Piñas City was shot dead by four unidentified men in front of her house in that city yesterday morning.
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Several commuters were annoyed when the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) operations suddenly stopped after a large tarpaulin caught in one of its cable wires at 6:30 yesterday morning.
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A security guard waiting for a ride home was killed when a wooden Meralco post accidentally fell on him yesterday morning in Parañaque City.
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Fire hits QC
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More than P5 million in unpaid traffic fines remains to be collected by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority since it started implementing the Non-Contact Traffic Apprehension Program (NCTAP) two years ago.
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Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye cited significant role of public information officers (PIOs) of local government units during the induction of newly elected officers of the Association of Information Officers in Metro Manila (AIMM) for year 2005-2007 at the Sulo hotel in Quezon City.
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The Valenzuela City jail, one of the most crowded in Metro Manila, will soon find a new home after the city’s chief executive announced that the city government will build a new and more spacious building.
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An American from Las Vegas, Nevada, tried to squeeze his way out of a predicament by saying he was merely collecting pictures of pretty Filipinas to match them off with foreigners looking for lifetime partners.
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A cargo ship loaded with sugar, rice, cement, feeds, 600 drums of diesel and liquefied petroleum gas tanks caught fire Tuesday night while docked at Pier 18 in North Harbor in Tondo, Manila.
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Indigent kidney patients in need of transplant operation now have a chance to get a new lease in life through the free kidney surgery project of First Gentleman Jose Miguel T. Arroyo.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday directed incoming Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to launch a crackdown against the perceived well-entrenched corruption in the department.
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Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo yesterday assured the ambassadors and other diplomats of member-countries of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) that the Philippine government remains committed to pursuing the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) despite the recent clashes between government troops and other Muslim elements in Jolo, Sulu.
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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — Many motorists were caught unprepared in the implementation yesterday morning of the increased toll rates at the new North Luzon Expressway (NLEX).
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Parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila, were jolted yesterday by an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale but no casualties were reported.
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To promote friendship and better understanding between Taiwan and the Philippines, Taiwan has sent the Acrobatic Troupe "2005 Lunar New Year Goodwill Mission" here for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
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Respect Hotline 117 — Reyes
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