Smart_500x500 Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has expanded its nationwide 5G network to 6,400 base stations, surpassing its initial target of 3,800 for 2021. This puts Smart's total base stations as of end-September to 72,600, enabling Smart to cover 96% of the population from Batanes to...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Wednesday, Nov. 3, said the local government has already exceeded its target COVID-19 vaccinations for the adult population. "Actually, naabot na namin yung target natin na 1.7 million (we already reached our 1.7 million target) which is 80 percent of our adult...
Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Visayas seized P6.8 million worth of shabu following the arrest of a drug pusher on Sunday, Oct. 17, in a buy-bust operation in Cebu City. PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold Carreon identified the suspect as Nestor Rosal, 59 who...
Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the local police seized P600,000 worth of marijuana following the arrest of a drug pusher on Wednesday night, Oct. 13, in a buy bust operation in Santa Rosa City in Laguna. In a statement, PDEA said that the suspect Rey PJ Reyes, 24,...
A suspected drug pusher in the government's watchlist was arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Cebu City through the Facebook complaint platform of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). A brainchild of PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva, “Isumbong mo kay Wilkins’’ is an online...
The national government is looking forward to administer 55 million vaccine doses against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in October by including children and the general population in the national inoculation program. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. reads a report about the national vaccination...
DITO Telecommunity, the country’s newest telco player, this morning (Sept. 21) announced it has hit the three million subscriber mark. Dito-Telecommunity On the average, the telco is hauling in new subscribers at the rate of 20,000 daily but has accelerated to over 33,000 per day in the last 12...
France and the United Kingdom are seeking the support of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in calling for more ambitious international action to protect terrestrial and marine habitats all over the world in response to the unprecedented rate of biodiversity loss facing the planet....
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested on Wednesday, Sept. 8, the eighth high-value target (HVT) drug personality in Region 11 in a buy-bust in Davao City. The operation resulted in the confiscation of some P30,000 worth of marijuana in a buy-bust operation in Agdao...
The government will increase the target population that it intends to vaccinate against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from 70 percent to around 80 to 90 percent, the country's vaccine czar revealed Wednesday, Sept. 8. Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. (File photo / Screenshot from Kapihan sa Manila Bay...
An alleged high value target (HVT) drug suspect was arrested by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) after he yielded P102,000 worth of suspected methampethamine hydrochloride (shabu), a gun, and live ammunition in a buy-bust operation in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan on Thursday night,...
Combined forces of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Manila seized some P3.4 million worth of shabu following the arrest of a suspected drug pusher classified as a high value target in an drug sting in Sta. Ana, Manila. In a report to PDEA Director-General Wilkins M Villanueva,...
