VIENNA, Austria – One person died and a dozen were injured when a train derailed Monday outside of Vienna, according to rescue services. 82645 Rescuers rushed to the accident at Muenchendorf, just south of Vienna, according to Andreas Zenker of the Red Cross of Lower Austria. "One person...
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a "firm global response" Friday after a missile strike killed 52 people at a train station in eastern Ukraine where civilians had gathered to flee a feared Russian offensive. "This is another Russian war crime for which...
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Several people died in a train crash in Hungary Tuesday after a van drove onto the rails at a crossing causing the train to derail, Hungarian police said. ''Several were injured in the accident and several died at the scene,'' the police said in a statement, without providing...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade on Friday, March 18, officially unveiled the country's first-ever eight-car Electric Multiple Train Set for the Philippine National Railways (PNR) Clark Phase 1 (Tutuban-Malolos) at the Malanday Depot, Valenzuela City. The 160-meter train...
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno is proposing an excise tax freeze on petroleum products in view of the soaring fuel prices that resulted from the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s campaign team) Diokno, a senatorial aspirant, cited the law allowing the...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday reminded that the Department of Finance (DOF) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has the prerogative to suspend the collection of fuel excise taxes under the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law to cushion the impact of the...
Brad Pitt Getting back on the job is never as easy as you think... especially with the world's deadliest assassins on board. Take a ride with Brad Pitt in the first trailer of Columbia Pictures’ new action-thriller Bullet Train, exclusively in cinemas across the Philippines this July 2022. An...
PASAHERO Party-list has added its voice to the growing clamor of stakeholders who want to suspend excise tax on oil products amid concerns that local pump prices would continue to climb in the coming weeks. (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) According to Allan Yap, the party-list's founder, the proposed...
House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto lll should recommend to Malacañang the conduct of special sessions in Congress to approve bills that would suspend excise taxes on fuel, the prices of which have been skyrocketing as of late. House Speaker Lord Allan...
LRMC and StrEAT Market partner to make commuting more fun in Manila Pinoy street food from Street Grub Always on the go and no time to visit food parks to enjoy a wide variety of food choices? Worry not! LRT-1 private operator Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) brings a one-stop shop to the...
House Deputy Speaker Mikee Romero claimed that the Department of Finance (DOF) can't block the proposed suspension of oil taxes, which he said would give Filipino consumers much-needed relief by way of fuel price cuts. (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Romero, in a statement Wednesday, Feb. 23,...
Filipino motorists may have their first "price rollback relief" next week, but the Department of Energy (DOE) is still stepping up on preparation for contingency measures in case the projected $100 per barrel oil will assault on oil markets this year. International oil prices crashed to the level...
