SHIKA, Japan - The number of people unaccounted for after Japan's New Year's Day earthquake more than tripled on Monday to 323 while the death toll rose to 168, according to local authorities. A heavy dumping of snow meanwhile complicated relief efforts a week after the 7.5-magnitude quake,...
The Manila Police District (MPD) reminded churchgoers of the mandated “single entry-multiple exits” in Quiapo Church for Traslacion 2024. Photo from MPD/MANILA BULLETIN Col. Arnold Thomas Ibay, MPD chief, said on Monday, Jan. 8, that devotees who wish to get inside the church should pass...
Police arrested five suspected drug dealers and two gun law violators in Bulacan on Monday, Jan. 8. Based on reports submitted to Col. Relly B. Arnedo, Bulacan police director, the drug sting conducted by anti-drug operatives of the City of San Jose Del Monte (CSJDM) Police resulted in the...
Navotas City Mayor John Reynald "John Rey" Tiangco announced on Monday, Jan. 8, that Malacañang has declared Jan. 16 a special non-working holiday in the city in observance of its 118th founding anniversary. Under Proclamation No. 435, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Jan. 4, the...
(Photo courtesy of Las Piñas PIO) The Las Piñas City Health Office (CHO) has launched an awareness campaign on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as it recorded more than 1,500 cases of infection in the city. During the “Serbisyo Las Piñero” health edition program of the city government...
(Photo courtesy of Pasay City police) A truck driver posing as a police officer and armed with an unlicensed .38 caliber revolver was arrested by members of the Pasay City police Sub-station 1 on Sunday, Jan. 7. The Southern Police District (SPD) said the suspect, identified as alias Elmer,...
Two motorcycle-riding men died after their bike fell off the Quezon Avenue flyover in Quezon City on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 7. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) District Traffic Enforcement Unit (DTEU) - Traffic Sector 6 identified the backrider of the motorcycle as Peter Paul Zapanta Navarro,...
CAVITE – Authorities seized a total of P3.8 million worth of suspected shabu in separate buy-bust operations in Dasmariñas City on Saturday, Jan. 6. Photo from Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office IV-A (MANILA BULLETIN) Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea was conducting live-fire drills on its western coast, Seoul's military said Sunday, the third consecutive day of military exercises near its contested maritime border with the South. Seoul's military said that North Korea had "conducted artillery fire with over 90...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian politician Charles Michel has announced he will step down as European Council president after running in the European Parliament elections set for June. (FILES) Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel looks on as he addresses the media after the EU leaders struck a deal...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister on Sunday denied Seoul's claims that Pyongyang had fired dozens of artillery rounds near their border a day earlier. People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing,...
KYIV, Ukraine - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said on a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday that Tokyo was "determined" to support Ukraine, as the second anniversary of Moscow's invasion nears. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (R) poses with Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (L)...
