ILIGAN CITY – A 37-year-old fish vendor suspected of being an intelligence asset was shot dead in Sitio Ilian, Barangay Rarab, Nunungan, Lanao del Norte Friday, August 12. Police Major Bernelito A. Padios, officer-in-charge, Nunungan police station, identified the victim as Rio Contemplo...
POLICE crime scene probers process the area in Barangay 35, Bacolod City where an alleged CIDG asset was shot dead last Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of Kirby Federez) BACOLOD CITY – An alleged asset of the Philippine National Police (PNP)-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) here was...
For vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, her "greatest asset" is neither has to do with smarts nor skills. Vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) It's what's she calls "tibay ng puso", or literally, the resilience of her...
Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos was asked during a televised interview Saturday, March 26 whether he was a pessimist an optimist; he said he's the latter. (Jove Duero/ Unsplash) "'Im essentially an optimist," the UniTeam ticket figurehead told the panelists in The Deep Probe: The SMNI...
Did you know that Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor and former Quezon City mayor Herbert Bautista go way back? Here's a photo of the two astute politicians during their days as youth leaders and so-called “street parliamentarians” in the early 1990s: Former Quezon City Mayor Herbert...
An estimated P1.9 trillion-worth of non-financial government properties, such as roads, hospitals, power plants, and irrigation facilities, have so far been covered by the Bureau of the Treasury in its National Asset Registry System (NARS) as of last year. The Treasury said the new entries to the...
Manila 1st District Rep. Manny Lopez has nothing but good things to say about Benhur Abalos, who recently resigned from his post as Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman in order to become presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos's campaign manager. Manila 1st district Rep. Manny...
Presidential aspirant Norberto Gonzales has vowed to highlight the importance of investing in labor or in the people for the economic stability and development of the country. During Manila Bulletin's "MB Hot Seat," Gonzales said he will explain to the businessmen that labor is not an expense but...
Sun Life Asset Management Co., Inc. said the Philippine economy may need two years before returning to its pre-pandemic levels owing to uncontrolled coronavirus infections and anemic household consumption. Screen Shot 2021-05-27 at 3.14.47 PM Michael Gerard D. Enriquez, Sun Life Asset Management...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is about to issue revised guidelines on virtual currency exchanges (VCEs) and electronic money issuers (EMIs) to plug the regulatory gaps of the existing virtual asset service providers (VASP) rules. MB File “Once issued (the revised) circular will address...
