The defense chiefs of the US and the Philippines have "condemned" China's "gray-zone" operations—or activities short of being called as war—in the South China Sea as they said these acts interfere with the livelihood of Filipino fisherfolk. In a readout provided by the US Department of...
DIVILACAN, Isabela – Responders reached the crash site of the Cessna 206 plane in a mountainous area in Barangay Ditarum, this town, on Saturday morning, March 11. The Army 5th Infantry Division said the retrieval team arrived in the area at 8 a.m. They were supposed to get there earlier but...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested a 60-year-old woman and seized suspected shabu worth P34 million in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Pang, Kalingalan Caluang, Sulu on Tuesday, March 7. Nasang Jaiyari Murosad’s cohort, Al Bashir, was able to escape after...
DIVILACAN, Isabela – The Philippine Coast Guard sees the retrieval operation for the bodies of the six Cessna plane crash victims in this province as a challenge due to the terrain of the crash site in Barangay Ditarum here. “Matatarik na bundok at napakahirap tawiring ilog (We are facing steep...
London bids to turn disused rail viaduct into its own High Line NEW LEASE ON LIFE These derelict rail tracks and pass-way in Camden are all set for transformation By Joe Jackson Images Daniel Leal London is on track to transform a disused stretch of elevated railway in the heart of the city into a...
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) will be inaugurating three major terminals across the country in March this year, including the one in Calapan City in Oriental Mindoro which will be the Philippines' biggest Passenger Terminal Building (PTB). Aside from the PTB in Calapan City, PPA General...
The Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) officially stopped its search and rescue (SAR) operations in Adiyaman, Turkey nine days since its special mission in the earthquake-ravaged country started, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said Monday, Feb. 20. Photo: Philippine...
Kyndryl, the world’s largest Information Technology (IT) infrastructure services provider, sees the Philippines as a "maturing market" in ASEAN with plenty of room for growth in terms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data. So far, "Only around 10 percent of firms in the Philippines have really...
It looks like the time of setting aside a whole day just to register motor vehicles and renew driver’s licenses will soon be history. On Feb. 14, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) launched a program for the online renewal of vehicle registration. The onset of information technology and the...
A group of Filipino customs brokers disputed the claim of the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) that its multi-million-peso container monitoring and registry program could bring down the logistics and shipment costs being paid by stakeholders. File photo: Philippine Ports Authority / PPA PPA General...
Government anti-narcotics operatives seized around P3.4 million worth of shabu following the arrest of a drug suspect during a buy-bust operation in General Trias, Cavite on Saturday, Jan. 28, Initial report disclosed that Ebuka Ezike was nabbed at around 9 a.m. at Governor’s Hill Subdivision....
After roughly eight years of delay and three government administrations, the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) in Mindanao finally gained traction on its commercial operations phase on January 26 this year. In an advisory to the trading participants, the market operator indicated that the...
