WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a roughly $1.2 trillion government funding bill Tuesday that ends the partial federal shutdown that began over the weekend and sets the stage for an intense debate in Congress over Homeland Security funding. The president moved quickly to sign the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump implored the House on Monday to end the partial government shutdown, but neither Republicans nor Democrats appeared ready to quickly approve the federal funding package he brokered with the Senate without first debating their own demands over immigration...
MADRID (AP) — The longest U.S. government shutdown on record is doing more than grind activities to a halt at home; an ocean away in Europe, local workers at U.S. military bases have started to feel the pain. Thousands of people working at overseas bases in Europe have had their salaries...
The next round of maintenance activities for the upgrade of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 electrical systems will not occur during peak hours to ensure continuous operations. In a statement, the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) said that upgrade works will...
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2019. The Moody's ratings agency warned on September 25, 2023, that a US government shutdown this weekend, amid political deadlock in Congress, would have negative implications for the country's top tier credit rating. Just four months after...
The entire Philippine airspace will be shut down for several hours on May 3 and 17 as necessary repairs and upgrades will be conducted by the government to fix the issues hounding the country’s air traffic management system (ATMS), the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) announced....
The two-week maintenance shutdown of the Malampaya gas production facility has been completed, without any untoward accidents at the work site, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). “The works were completed with zero incidents recorded. This was achieved through diligent planning and...
At least 20,000 commuters will be affected daily by the impending closure of the Philippine National Railways (PNR). (PNR website) Thus, said Department of Transportation (DOTr) Undersecretary for Railway Cesar Chavez during a public hearing of fhe House Committee on Transportation on Thursday,...
The Philippine National Railways (PNR) will be temporarily shut down later this year, perhaps by the summer. PNR (Wikipedia) This was confirmed by Department of Transportation (DOTr) Undersecretary for Railway Cesar Chavez during a public hearing of the House Committee on Transportation on...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is aiming for a "no rate hike" scenario that will result from the two-week shutdown of the Malampaya gas production facility this February. If the agency’s calculations will turn out accurate, that will be a "historic first" in such activity in the power system’s...
The roughly 7.5 million customers being served by power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will have to brace for P0.7897 per kilowatt hour (kWh) hike in electricity rates as a result of the two-week scheduled shutdown of the Malampaya gas production platform next month. The increase...
TRIBU Parianon of Molo District is the champion of the Ati tribe competition at the 2023 Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – Mayor Jerry Treñas won’t endorse the shutdown of mobile phone signal in the 2024 Dinagyang Festival due to the problems it had caused to the...
