A woman was arrested by the Makati City Police after her group led the police on an action movie-like car chase after stealing the cellphone of a sari-sari store owner in Barangay Pio Del Pilar, Makati City, on Sunday, Nov. 30. According to the Southern Police District (SPD), one of the suspects,...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology–Negros Island Region (BJMP-NIR) is investigating how a cellphone was smuggled into the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, after a video allegedly filmed by a Person Deprived of Liberty (PDL) during a...
Eight out of 10 Filipinos are open to the proposal banning the use of mobile phones in schools, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Tuesday, August 6. A Pulse Asia survey commissioned by the Office of Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian shows that 76% of Filipinos support cellphone ban in schools. The...
(Unsplash) Too strict. That's how ACT-Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro described the proposed total ban on the use of mobile phones and other electronic gadgets in classrooms. "Well, parang masyadong, masyado naman yung, ano...
DAVAO CITY – Every day, 38-year-old Angelito Ducosaring wakes up at 4 a.m. to prepare food for his two children before going to school. DUCOSARING at work. (Keith Bacongco) Two hours later, he boards a jeep from Matina District here for a nine-kilometer ride to his mobile phone...
CELLPHONE technician Angelito Ducosaring repairs a mobile phone in his makeshift shop on Magsaysay Ave. in Davao City on Monday, May 6, 2024. The 38-year-old technician has been repairing electronic gadgets for the past 13 years despite his disability. (Keith Bacongco)
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday, April 25 said he is keen on filing a measure that would ban the use of cellular phones and other gadgets during classes. Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, said he would propose the implementation of such policy at the...
PILA, Laguna – A gadgets store in Barangay Bulilan Norte here was robbed of 150 cellphones on Tuesday morning, April 23. MAP of Laguna with the town of Pila highlighted. Police said four men wearing face masks arrived and declared a holdup. They hogtied the owner and five employees and...
LAOAC, Pangasinan – An unattended cellphone sparked a fire that hit a house in Zone 2, Barangay Nanbagatan, this town, on Sunday, April 16. Police said the fire at the residence of Erminia Ramos Daus, 36, started at around 12:36 a.m. The fire spread quickly because the house was made of light...
Ina Raymundo recently thanked a taxi driver for returning her son’s misplaced phone. On Instagram, the latter expressed her gratitude. She wrote: "Maraming salamat, Mike, driver ng RMJJ taxi! My son left his cellphone in his car but he returned it to us." "Nakakatuwa at may mga tao pa talaga na...
SAN MANUEL, Isabela – Don’t text or call while driving or else it might cost you your life. A woman busy with her cellphone cheated death after the Isuzu DMAX she was driving fell into a rice field while avoiding a pedestrian here Monday, July 18. The PNP did not identify the driver....
Designs of cellphone cases have evolved creatively through the years. We saw some imitating cassette tapes, vintage instant cameras, pocketbooks, old school Gameboy, hand mirror, electrical outlet, frying pan, and more. And now, mobile cases that look like deadly weapons are also available....
