Three Philippine Air Force (PAF) aircraft, including an S-70i Black Hawk utility helicopter, were dispatched to extinguish a huge fire that struck a residential area in Tondo, Manila on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Aside from the Black Hawk, a Huey II and a PZL W-3A Sokol, both utility helicopters, were...
Manuel V. Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) reported a 20 percent increase in net income for the first half of 2025, driven by improved financial and operational performance and strong contributions from its energy, water, and hospital businesses. During a financial briefing,...
In the late 2000s, Philippine business saw an intense corporate war as two of the country 's most aggressive conglomerates, Metro Pacific Investment Corp. (MPIC) of Manuel V. Pangilinan and San Miguel Corp. (SMC) of Ramon S. Ang, went to war for a single asset: Manila Electric Co. (Meralco)....
Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno" Domagoso has publicly criticized the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for announcing the closure of the southbound lane of the Dimasalang Bridge without first securing the necessary permits and coordinating with the local government. Domagoso...
Manuel V. Pangilinan-led Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will source part of its power supply from biogas over a 20-year period as part of its renewable energy (RE) integration. In a statement on Monday, Aug. 4, Meralco said it has secured a power supply agreement (PSA) with First Quezon Biogas Corp....
Northern Luzon is expected to experience rains and cloudy skies on Saturday, August 2, as the southwest monsoon or habagat continues to affect the region, while the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) monitors a tropical depression located outside...
CEBU CITY – A visa consultancy firm here was shut down after it was allegedly caught engaging in illegal recruitment. Officials from the Department of Migrant Workers-Central Visayas-(DMW 7) and Cebu City government served the closure order against Visa to America Manila Inc.-Cebu on Friday,...
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) closed eight branches of a consulting firm across the country on Friday, August 1, after it allegedly engaged in illegal recruitment of teachers and professionals in the hospitality industry, some of whom had paid up to half a million pesos just to be...
Authorities have identified two of the 10 decomposing bodies recently discovered inside an unlicensed funeral home in Sta. Cruz, Manila. One of the victims was confirmed to be Leah Tongol, who was reportedly killed in Malate last April. According to her family, they were unable to retrieve her...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora was re-elected as the Metro Manila Council 's (MMC) president during the joint meeting of the MMC, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Friday, August 1. “I would like to express...
Five suspects, including two minors, were arrested for stealing 32 government-issued and two personal laptops from a faculty room of a school in Sta. Ana, Manila, during the recent typhoons. The Manila Police District (MPD) and Barangay 905 Kagawad Edwin Zambrona said the robbery was only...
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), the country’s largest electric distribution utility, has revised its energy sales growth forecast for the year due to economic concerns. “Typically, the growth in the DU (distribution utility) is close to the real growth of the GDP (gross domestic product)…These...
