A fifth-alarm fire tore through Commonwealth Market in Quezon City before dawn on Saturday, April 25, escalating within minutes from its initial alarm, the Quezon City Fire District said. The blaze quickly intensified, drawing a massive response from Bureau of Fire Protection units and volunteer...
Eight individuals were arrested and three unlicensed .45-caliber pistols were seized when the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) raided an illegal billiard betting den inside Commonwealth Market on Monday, April 20. QCPD operatives conducted the operation following surveillance of reported illegal...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) is hunting down the suspect in a hit-and-run incident that killed a 21-year-old jeepney driver while he was changing a flat tire along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City early Monday, April 13. Police said the victim was fixing a flat tire of his passenger...
Aside from lead cornerstone investors International Finance Corp. and Asian Development Bank (ADB), Maynilad Water Services, Inc. has signed cornerstone investment agreements with 10 more international and domestic institutions led by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, acting...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) announced Friday, Aug. 29, a preventive 90-day suspension on the license of a bus driver involved in a road accident along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City that left 10 people injured. According to an LTO order, Ronaldo Bactong, the driver of the erring...
Screenshot of viral footage of Commonwealth road crash on Sunday, Aprill 13 (Facebook) Reelectionist Senate Majority Leader Francis "Tol" Tolentino said the 60 kilometer-per-hour (kph) speed limit in major thoroughfares must be strictly...
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Malaysia on Friday, March 22, decided against hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games because of the cost, the government said, in a fresh blow to an event seen as outdated by some. The decision, made at a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, follows the...
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) said on Monday, March 18, it was considering hosting a "downsized" Commonwealth Games in 2026 but the final decision would lie with the government. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is scrambling to find a host after the Australian...
Quezon 2nd district Rep. David "Jay-jay" Suarez (Facebook) House Deputy Speaker Quezon 2nd district Rep. David "Jay-jay" Suarez couldn't hide his exasperation Monday, March 4 when he was asked about the reported presence of Chinese vessels in Benham Rise...
SYDNEY (AFP) -- Australia's Gold Coast has scrapped its last-ditch bid to hold the 2026 Commonwealth Games, leaving the event in limbo as organizers race to find a willing host. The Australian state of Victoria was originally slated to host the Games, but unexpectedly pulled out in July this year...
SINGAPORE (AFP) -- Commonwealth Games officials said on Wednesday, Nov. 15, that "extensive work" was underway in four regions to find a new host for the 2026 event after an Australian state's shock withdrawal in July. Commonwealth Games CEO and Olympian Katie Sadleir (AFP) The multi-sport event...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Thursday, Oct. 5, denied she was behind the traffic disruption along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City as was claimed by an unidentified policeman in a now viral video on social media. (Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook) A statement by the Office of the Vice President...
