Vice Mayor April Aguilar (Photo from Las Piñas PIO) The Las Piñas City government was recognized by the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) as the Top 2 Best Performing Local Government Unit (LGU) in Metro Manila for solid waste management in 2024. Las Piñas City Vice Mayor...
The Philippine Tobacco Institute (PTI) expressed support for a bill filed in Congress to arrest the rising illicit trade of tobacco resulting in declining collections, citing experiences of neighboring countries which suspended annual increases in tobacco excise taxes to stabilize the market. ...
Photo from Pasay PIO The Pasay City government announced that business permit renewal in the city has been extended from Jan. 21 to Jan. 25 to give businesses not able to beat the Jan. 20 deadline to renew their permit. Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano issued the order based on...
Makati City Mayor and senatorial aspirant Abby Binay urged the government to intensify efforts against rice cartels and smugglers, emphasizing the importance of prosecuting and holding offenders accountable to stop price manipulation. Makati City Mayor Abby Binay The mayor made the statement during...
The agency of the security guard involved in the viral “Sampaguita vendor” video said he has apologized for his action but remains employed on off-detail while the investigation into the incident is ongoing. On Monday, Jan. 20, the security guard, together with representatives from his agency,...
QCPD Acting Director Col. Melecio Buslig Jr. There has been a sharp decline of 19.97 percent in Quezon City's eight focus crimes - including physical injuries, theft, robbery, and other violent offenses, while incidents of rape dropped by 32.26 percent, robbery by 28.57 percent, and theft by...
BOSTON (AP) — Residents across the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine are bracing for dangerously low temperatures as tens of millions of residents along the East Coast contend with a thick blanket of snow — and more snowfall in the forecast. A pedestrian crosses First Avenue...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is going to issue a series of orders aimed at remaking America’s immigration policies, ending asylum access, sending troops to the southern border and ending birthright citizenship, an incoming White House official said. A young mother signs a form...
In the past three elections, misinformation usually from social media influencers and trolls were observed to have played a key role in shaping the outcome of local and national polls. And Philippine National Police (PNP) Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil even branded misinformation as more alarming...
A fire broke out at a cold storage facility on Fernando Poe Jr. Avenue Barangay Del Monte, Quezon City on Monday morning, Jan. 20. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the fire was raised to the 1st alarm at around 3:28 p.m. and raised to 2nd alarm at around 5:46 a.m. The blaze...
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. FILE - Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. (AP...
