Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto Rubiano placed the city on heightened alert Friday, July 10, as the southwest monsoon (habagat), intensified by Typhoon Inday, continued to threaten Metro Manila. Rubiano convened the Pasay City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PCDRRMC) to assess...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) -- Japan 's health ministry on Thursday (July 9) proposed forgoing tightening regulations on heated tobacco products to the same extent as for cigarettes, as part of a review of measures against passive smoking. A panel of experts set up by the ministry broadly agreed on...
Las Piñas City has placed all emergency units on full alert as it steps up disaster readiness for heavy rains intensified by Typhoon Inday. Mayor April Aguilar said the city government is closely monitoring weather conditions and has directed all concerned offices to remain on heightened alert to...
The Marikina City government said rescue boats are on standby while response teams have been deployed to identified low‑lying areas, as heavy rains brought by Typhoon Inday are expected Friday afternoon, July 10. It said that a total of 20 rescue boats have been prepositioned across 10...
A 60‑year‑old man wanted for the 2004 murder of a barangay councilor in Las Piñas City was arrested in Leyte after more than two decades in hiding. Las Piñas City Police chief Col. Fermin Armendarez identified the suspect only as "Roger," listed as a provincial and district-level Top Most...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong dog owners and their four-legged friends have gained new freedoms after the city relaxed a decades-old rule, allowing the pets to join them at eateries. Since 1994, only guide dogs and those performing statutory duties were allowed in restaurants under the city 's...
BEIJING (AP) — A fire broke out at a shoe factory in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian on Thursday, killing 28 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Chinese President Xi Jinping demanded “an all-out search and rescue effort," urging a swift investigation of the incident and...
CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela (AP) — Victims of the powerful twin earthquakes that jolted Venezuela last month as well as people spared by the destruction on Thursday flooded relief services offered by nongovernmental organizations in the hardest-hit areas. The demand for help comes as the United...
The Pasay City government ordered the immediate removal of signages, billboards, and other advertising materials across the city as a precautionary measure against the possible impact of Typhoon Inday. Mayor Imelda "Emi" Calixto-Rubiano said the directive forms part of the city’s disaster...
BANGKOK (AP) — When China launched a ballistic missile into the South Pacific Ocean on Monday, it was a rare test of a nuclear-capable weapons system that drew international rebuke. Arriving two years after a similar missile launch in international waters in the Pacific, the test by the People...
BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people died in flooding after a tropical storm dumped heavy rainfall, as the country 's east coast and Taiwan prepared for a typhoon expected to make landfall in the coming days. Most of the deaths were in Hengzhou, where...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East. Back-and-forth...
