Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade said the operations of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) have significantly improved, thanks to the massive rehabilitation and maintenance works done on the rail line. (Mark Balmoral/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) In his Facebook...
More than two million doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines were delivered to the country on Friday afternoon, July 9. A health worker shows a vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) According to the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, a total of...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has given foreign nationals whose visas have expired during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic up to November 30 this year to renew them. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente (Screengrab from INTERPOL TV YouTube video) Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said the...
A shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth P90 million was reduced to ashes after the Bureau of Customs (BOC) destroyed the contraband via burning in Cebu. DESTROYED--A P90-million shipment of fake cigarettes was disposed off through burning in Cebu last July 7, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the BOC) A...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has partnered with popular communications platform Viber to promote its "Kain Na!" (Let’s Eat!) Food and Trade Festival, which will showcase the bright spots of the country's food and farm tourism industries. (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) "We at the DOT are very...
The regular weekend road repair works along two major highways in Metro Manila will resume Friday night, July 9, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said. (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Reblocking and repair works will be undertaken on Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) and...
The 2.22-kilometer (km) section of the Arterial Plaridel Bypass Road, which includes the bridge across Angat River in Bustos, Bulacan, was opened on Friday, July 9. WIDER IS BETTER--The newly-widened Arterial Plaridel Bypass Road in Bustos, Bulacan was opened to motorists on July 9, 2021. (Photo...
The emergence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic made the United Kingdom (UK) realize just how important Filipino nurses and healthcare workers (HCWs) were to that country. (Screengrab from Zoom meeting) Thus, said Labor Attaché in London Amuerfina Reyes in a virtual press briefing...
Following the tragic C-130 transport plane crash in Sulu over the weekend, an A-29B Super Tucano light attack aircraft of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) has also sustained damage during a test flight--thus raising questions as to whether or not the protocols being implemented by the military have...
Motorcycle riders will find this move from the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) very thoughtful, especially with the intermittent rains. MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos (left) leads the unveiling of the emergency lay-by under the Quezon City flyover on July 9, 2021. (Photo from MMDA)...
Senator Manny Pacquiao could have easily avoided his P3-billion tax evasion case had he presented outright to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) his income tax payments from the United States' (US) Internal Revenue Service (IRS). (Photo from Manny Pacquiao's Instagram) Several former and present...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) issued Friday, July 9, their unified coordination guidelines in the conduct of anti-illegal drug operations to prevent incidents of misencounter. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva (PDEA photo) In a...
