The Manila Police District (MPD) reported on Tuesday, Nov. 21, the arrest of a construction worker after he allegedly tried to attack a man using a butcher knife in Malate, Manila on Sunday night, Nov. 19. Photo from MPD/MANILA BULLETIN The Manila Police District-Malate Police Station (MPD-PS-9)...
Fifteen drug suspects, seven wanted persons, and four illegal gamblers were arrested by the Bulacan Police in several anti-criminality operations conducted in the province on Monday, Nov. 20. According to the reports submitted to Col. Relly B. Arnedo, Bulacan police director, buy-bust...
A total of 144 newly-elected village officials in Navotas City were sworn in to officially start their terms as public servants at the Navotas Sports Complex on Monday, Nov. 20. The officials from the city's 18 barangays took their oath before Navotas City Mayor John Reynald "John Rey"...
TACLOBAN CITY - The shear line-induced heavy rains have caused flooding in Northern and Eastern Samar provinces on Tuesday, Nov. 21. A source from the local government unit said all 55 barangays in the municipality of Catarman, the capital of Northern Samar, remained flooded as of this...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the city of Mandaluyong after the city government launched the return of its annual "Paskuhan sa Tiger City" Christmas fair at the City Hall grounds on Monday, Nov. 20. (Photo from Mandaluyong LGU) Mandaluyong City Mayor Ben Abalos spearheaded the...
CAVITE – The local government unit of Bacoor City broke ground for a new housing project in Zapote I on Monday, Nov. 20. Screenshot from Mayor Strike B. Revilla's Facebook video The site will be called Strike Towers, a mid-rise housing project with nine buildings and 1,890...
Residents and their farm animals wade in floodwater in Masbate. LEGAZPI CITY, Albay - A total of 175 families or 489 persons from six villages in Masbate province were evacuated due to flooding brought by incessant rains triggered by the shear line, the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD)...
A total of 2,527 Mandaluyong City Hall employees have already received their 13th month pay, Mandaluyong City Mayor Ben Abalos said on Monday, Nov. 20. Aside from the 13th month pay, the 836 regular and 1,691 casual employees of the City Hall have also received their cash incentives as an early...
TOKYO, Japan - North Korea has issued formal notice of a satellite launch as early as Wednesday, defying warnings from South Korea and multiple UN resolutions banning Pyongyang from using ballistic missile technology. This handout photo taken and released on November 20, 2023 by the South...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - A global fund under which wealthier nations would help emerging economies cope with climate change should not be based on divisions from three decades ago, an EU climate chief said Monday. "We cannot base this kind of funding simply on an economic division between developed...
BEIJING, China- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday the world must "act urgently" to calm the Israel-Hamas war as he hosted diplomats from Arab and Muslim-majority nations in Beijing. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi A delegation of foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority,...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The Red Cross said Monday that its president had travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh "to advance humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza". President Mirjana Spoljaric "President Mirjana Spoljaric met with (Ismail)...
