Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has assured the public that the construction of the New Senate Building (NSB) remains on track. The Senate, he said, is now focused on reducing costs without compromising its design and quality. “We are doing our best to maintain the aesthetics and...
BACOLOD CITY – A New People’s Army rebel recently surrendered to the police in Silay City, Negros Occidental. Forty-year-old Ka Nonoy, a laborer and a resident of Barangay Guimbala-on, Silay City, turned over a caliber .38 revolver and an improvised 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun. Ka Nonoy...
BACOLOD CITY – Three soldiers were wounded in an encounter with the New People’s Army in Sitio Bairan, Barangay Gen. Luna, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, March 18. SAMSON (FB) The 3rd Infantry Division said that the 79th Infantry Battalion was responding to reports of atrocities in...
NEW YORK (AP) — Mikal Bridges scored 28 points, Josh Hart tied a franchise record with his eighth triple-double this season and the New York Knicks beat Miami, 116-95, on Monday night, March 17, sending the Heat to their first eight-game losing streak of coach Erik Spoelstra’s career....
Major General Adonis Ariel Orio, commander of 8th Infantry Division, visits the headquarters of the 8th Civil-Military Operations Battalion in Santa Rita, Samar on March 13, 2025. (File photo: 8ID) Three suspected communist rebels were killed in a series of armed encounters between the Philippine...
SP New Energy Corporation (SPNEC), a solar power producer controlled by Manila Electric Company (Meralco) through Meralco Power Gen Corporation (MGen), looking at developing another massive solar farm in Southern Luzon. In an interview, Meralco Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said SPNEC is putting up...
(Courtesy of 2nd Infantry Division, Philippine Army) A suspected communist rebel died after the Philippine Army (PA) and New People’s Army (NPA) engaged in an armed encounter in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro on Friday, March 14. Elements of the Army’s 4 th Infantry Battalion under the 2 nd...
Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGen) is exploring a potential backdoor listing for its renewable energy (RE) unit, MGen Renewable Energy Inc. (MGreen). In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Friday, March 14, SP New Energy Corporation (SPNEC), an Meralco group subsidiary, stated that MGen is...
BUTUAN CITY – Two leaders of the CPP-NPA were killed in a gunbattle in Barangay Iba, Cabanglasan town, Bukidnon province on Monday, March 10, the military reported Thursday, March 13. Major Gen. Michele B. Anayron Jr., commanding general of the 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division, identified...
BACOLOD CITY – The military has identified the two New People’s Army leaders killed in an encounter in Barangay Caduha-an, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, March 8. READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/3/8/2-npa-leaders-killed-in-cadiz-city-clash The 79th Infantry Battalion said on Sunday,...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE The Manila Bulletin was happy to be the media partner for SM Supermalls’ celebration of International Women’s Day 2025, which kicked off with a ‘Women Inspiring Women’ forum held at SM Aura just last Friday morning, March 7th. This was the first...
BACOLOD CITY – The military neutralized two New People’s Army leaders in an encounter in Hacienda Paraiso, Barangay Caduhaan, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, March 8. 1st Lt. Dan Carlo Samoza, civil-military officer of the Army 79th Infantry Battalion, said they were conducting...
