President Arroyo will lead the Philippine delegation to the 11th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit set on Dec. 11 to 14 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Garci as state witness?
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The Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) yesterday said it will start privatizing the operations of all railway systems next year to save the government some R2.5 billion worth of annual subsidy for every train system.
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Congressmen from some of the country’s top tourist spots chided officials of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA) for bungling tourism programs with "too much politics."
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A 5.7 magnitude tectonic earthquake shook Isulan’s Sultan Kudarat yesterday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported.
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The House of Representatives will look into the erroneous printing of the R100 banknotes which carried the misspelled surname of President Arroyo, thereby causing embarrassment to her government.
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The Manila city government has granted some 300 pedicab drivers monetary assistance after they were barred from plying their usual routes in the Ermita area to ensure a free flow of traffic near the venues of a number of sports events in the ongoing 23rd Southeast Asian Games (SEAG).
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The Manila Police District is optimistic that the 23rd Southeast Asian Games will be carried out smoothly and peacefully until its culmination on December 5, with the successful implementation of the police security measures in Manila.
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Parañaque City Mayor Florencio Bernabe pledged more support for the city’s urban poor during a consultative meeting held recently.
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The National Federation of Women’s Clubs (NFWC) of the Philippines has announced the five recipients of the Outstanding Mothers of 2005 awards.
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Malabon City Mayor Tito Oreta has directed the City Market Management Office to monitor malpractices by vendors and traders in the wake of complaints of alleged overpricing of basic commodities in some public markets with the implementation of the expanded value-added tax law (EVAT).
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Cop kills 2 jeepney rob suspects
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Pasay City Mayor Wenceslao “Peewee”Trinidad brought cheers yesterday to city hall employees, announcing that they will be receiving various gifts for the holiday season and also in celebration of the 142nd founding anniversary of Pasay City today.
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The Marikina City government is set to inaugurate next week its newly constructed park, a monument dedicated to the Marikina’s ninth year anniversary since it became a city.
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At least two public schools and a barangay office in Pasay City will have to give way to the commercialization of a vast parcel of land inside the Villamor Air Base.
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The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) called yesterday for the suspension of road diggings in Metro Manila from Dec. 12 this year to Jan. 7 next year to ease traffic congestion with the projected high volume of vehicular traffic this holiday season.
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Seven suspected members of a dreaded gang believed to be behind the series of jeepney holdup and robbery incidents the past few months in Muntinlupa have been caught by city police at 1:30 a.m. yesterday.
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Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco has lauded the officials of the Deutsche Bank and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and the Department of Education (DepEd) for the two-story classroom to be used for the school under the “Adopt a School Program” of the DepEd and the town government.
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