Super typhoon “Egay” may have left the country last week but the devastation it left was continuously felt as two more fatalities were reported by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), which brought the death toll to 29 as of Friday, August 4. The NDRRMC said 14...
A lightning strike staged by a truckers' group from Central Luzon at the Anda Circle in Manila with around 30 trucks blocking two lanes of the busy thoroughfare caused a monstrous traffic jam on Friday morning inconveniencing thousands of motorists and commuters. Members of the Central Luzon...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, June 23 urged the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) and the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) management to address the bottlenecks along the expressway. A week since the toll increase in the NLEX took effect, Gatchalian said regular users of the toll road still...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, June 14 said only a temporary restraining order (TRO) can stop the toll rate increase on the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX). But it is also possible for the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) to be morally persuaded to defer the plan. “For now the only way to stop...
The drastic hike in toll rates beginning June 15 must be explained in detail to the motoring public, Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday, June 13, said. Sen. Grace Poe (Senate PRIB Photo) “If these were periodic adjustments from more than a decade ago, the...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Tuesday, June 13 urged the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) and the North Luzon Express (NLEX) Corporation to put on hold the provisional increase in toll rates saying the worsening traffic should be resolved first. This, after the TRB...
SANLIURFA, Türkiye - A major earthquake struck Türkiye and Syria on Monday, killing more than 3,800 people and flattening thousands of buildings as rescuers dug with bare hands for survivors. Residents search for victims and survivors amidst the rubble of a building that collapsed, following...
A PHILIPPINE Coast Guard personnel helps evacuate a child from a flooded area in Zamboanga on Jan. 11. CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PNA) – The two-week rains caused by a low-pressure area (LPA) in Northern Mindanao affected 59,000 individuals, left seven dead, and damaged more than P22-million worth of...
Relatives of a victim of the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino fire in Poipet, Cambodia, mourn at a temple on the Thai side of the border in Aranyaprathet on December 30, 2022. Rescuers scoured the charred ruins of a Cambodian hotel and casino complex on December 30, warning they expected to find...
PARIS, France – The true global death toll of Covid-19 remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected, though experts agree there have been far more fatalities than officially reported. Patient beds in Beijing stadium. China could see over 1 million Covid deaths...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The death toll from a fierce winter storm that gripped much of the United States over Christmas rose to at least 61 on Thursday, officials said. A gigantic snow pile is seen in front of Central Terminal in Buffalo, New York, on December 29, 2022. The death toll from a...
Senior citizens will get a 20 percent discount on the toll fees imposed by expressway and skyway operators if this measure from Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo gets enacted. Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo Rillo penned and filed House Bill (HB) No.5277, which seeks for senior...
