The Southern Diliman Gardens Rental Housing Project under the Expanded Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino (4PH) Program in Quezon City was provided police security during mobilization and fencing works on July 8, when officers contained a brief commotion at the site. According to the Quezon City...
DAVAO CITY – A councilor here has defended the Davao City Bus Project from critics. Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Ways and Means, and Appropriations, said that the city government ensures that economic displacement is addressed through transition...
Is former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manuel Bonoan being pressured to implicate Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez in the Ombudsman’s flood control project scam investigation? Lawyer Ade Fajardo, a spokesman of the two-time former House Speaker, says this might...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has indefinitely suspended its landmark fifth round of the Green Energy Auction Program (GEA-5), dealing a temporary setback to the Philippines’ most ambitious offshore wind energy tender to date. The DOE issued an official advisory putting all activities and...
Residents of Pook Malantic in Barangay UP Campus, Quezon City, formed a human barricade on Wednesday, July 8, fearing demolition after personnel and a private truck arrived with materials to fence a rental housing project. The residents linked arms to block the entry of the truck and personnel,...
A quick summary of the movie year so far: The box office is booming, Gen Z is flocking to theaters and aliens are … real? It’s been a curiously seesawing first six months. The movies have been dominated as much by 26-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Curry Barker as they have 79-year-old...
Former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manuel Bonoan is the “most polluted" source of testimony when it comes to the flood control projects corruption scandal. Thus, said the spokesperson of Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez, lawyer Ade Fajardo, amid the...
The camp of Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez says the former House Speaker is being used as a "convenient excuse and political scapegoat” in the flood control projects corruption scandal. This, after spokesperson lawyer Elaine Atienza said for the umpteenth time Thursday, July 2 that...
Quezon City 5th district Rep. Patrick Michael "PM" Vargas has gained a legal victory in what he has described as a "coordinated smear campaign" against him. This, after Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 81 Presiding Judge Madonna Echiverri dismissed a P1-billion civil case that...
A Philippine community library initiative was named one of just 10 youth-led projects worldwide selected for expansion under UNESCO and K-pop group Seventeen 's Global Youth Grant Scheme, as member Joshua attended a celebration at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on June 25. The Philippines '...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is considering relocating about 500 families living along Tuntong Creek in Barangay Manuyo Dos as part of a long-term solution to the persistent flooding problem in Las Piñas, Mayor April Aguilar said. Aguilar noted that DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon...
Las Piñas Mayor April Aguilar announced that the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is targeting the completion of the long-delayed flood mitigation project along Marcos Alvarez Avenue in Barangay Talon Singko, Las Piñas City, by June. Aguilar joined DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon during...
