Bangkok, Thailand - Thai customs officials have arrested six Indians for attempting to smuggle a red panda and 86 other animals out of the kingdom, including snakes, parrots and monitor lizards, officials said Wednesday. The illicit menagerie was discovered hidden in the suspects'...
Caloocan City Mayor Dale “Along” Malapitan said on Wednesday, March 6, that he will not tolerate any inappropriate actions of officials in public schools. Malapitan made the statement after the Department of Education (DepEd) sent a formal charge against a school official in the city, who...
Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong's justice minister said Wednesday the city does not plan to ban social media under a proposed national security law after a public consultation document included suggestions that some apps should be barred. The government recently concluded a month-long...
United Nations, United States - The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday on violence-wracked Haiti, where marauding gangs are threatening a bloody civil war unless absent Prime Minister Ariel Henry steps down. The armed groups, which control swaths of the country,...
Madrid, Spain - Four people were found dead in a boat full of migrants that was rescued overnight off the Canary Islands, Spanish maritime officials said Wednesday. Lifeguards took 64 survivors, many in poor health, from the vessel found late on Tuesday off the island of El Hierro, Spain's...
Two days before the celebration of International Women's Day, 17 major women's organizations and federations gathered to express their stand against Charter change (Cha-cha) on Wednesday, March 6. Women's organizations and federations conduct a press conference to show opposition to Charter...
Trabaho para kay Juana (Photo courtesy of Pasay PIO) The Pasay City government prepared employment programs for all women in the city in celebration of Women’s Month on Thursday, March 8. Pasay Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said the Public Employment Services Office (PESO) will hold...
Three cops implicated in a robbery incident in Kawit in February have been relieved from their respective units and placed under restrictive custody. PRO 4A director Brig. Gen. Paul Kenneth T. Lucas during a press conference in Camp Vicente Lim in Calamba, Laguna, on March 6 (PRO...
Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano with DOH-MMCHD officials (Photo courtesy of Pasay PIO) The Department of Health-Metro Manila Center for Health Department (DOH-MMCHD) reaffirmed its commitment to provide all the necessary assistance in elevating the quality of healthcare in Pasay City. ...
Vice-Mayor April Aguilar assists senior citizen victims of a fire in Las Pinas (Photo courtesy of Las Piñas PIO) Las Piñas City Vice-Mayor April Aguilar assisted the 170 families who were victims of a fire last March 5. Aguilar visited the 648 individuals who are staying in modular...
A woman online seller and two others were arrested by members of the Parañaque City Police Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) for selling shabu during a buy-bust operation conducted on Tuesday, March 5. The Southern Police District (SPD) identified the suspects as alias Weng, 30, an...
MELBOURNE, Australia - Leaders from Southeast Asia and Australia were Wednesday struggling to find common ground on the escalating crisis in Gaza, with nations split on a joint declaration. (L-R) ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn, Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Singapore's Prime...
