Manila Police District- Dagupan Outpost Eleven additional closed-circuit television (CCTV) equipment were installed around Divisioria market in Binondo, Manila. The Manila Police District installed the new CCTVs on Friday, Feb. 9, to maintain peace and order and provide immediate response at any...
Divisoria (Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN) Senator Francis "Tol" Tolentino is asking local businesses to ensure the affordability of their goods during this holiday season for the sake of Filipino consumers. Tolentino had this to say during his weekly radio...
In its latest biennial report in December 2022, the European Commission’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List identified the Baclaran, Cartimar, Divisoria and Greenhills markets in Metro Manila, Philippines as offering a wide range of counterfeit goods on retail and wholesale basis. This is the...
Manila’s popular sprawling mass markets – Baclaran, Divisoria, Greenhils and Cartimar – have been tagged as hubs of counterfeit goods in the country by the European Commission Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List. In the latest biennial report in December last year, the EU Watch List identified...
The City of Manila has started deploying coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster shots for workers at the Divisoria market along Claro M. Recto Avenue in Tondo, Manila during a night vaccination drive on Wednesday, Jan. 5. COVID-19 booster shots were deployed to Divisoria market employees including...
Toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition on Tuesday, Oct. 5, expressed alarm over the "unrelenting sale" of plastic balloon blowing kits in Manila despite being flagged to have been containing a cancer-causing chemical. The group called on authorities to act on its concern after finding out during...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) urged the public o refrain from buying smuggled carrots while the investigation on its proliferation in the local markets is under way. (Photo via Pixabay) "The best thing we can do, meanwhile, is not to buy kasi hindi natin alam yung laman ng mga (because we...
An inter-agency task force will be formed to investigate the suspected smuggled carrots spotted in Divisoria, Manila in the past few days, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Monday, Sept. 27. Agriculture Spokesperson Noel Reyes bared in a televised briefing that the department along with the...
Market vendors, truck drivers, helpers, pedicab drivers, and porters from Northern Luzon, Central Luzon and Southern Luzon have been inoculated against COVID-19 in Manila on Sunday night. (Manila Public Information Office photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The Manila city government has started the...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo Before my stint at “Build, Build, Build,” I worked with United Nations Development Program and Food and Agriculture Organization on their Typhoon Haiyan Response (locally known as Typhoon Yolanda). The first time I saw Tacloban (after the onslaught of Yolanda),...
This time of the year is the season to shop. Big sale events are happening in every shopping mall and holiday bazaars. One of the best places where Filipinos shop is the tiangge . Titas and moms flock the pasilios of the tiangge , hoping to get the best deals and finds for their on-a-budget gift...
