The United States on Wednesday announced $225 million in investments to support emerging democracies in the face of a rise in autocracies around the world. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), were to announce...
Around 20 inmates and their partners were married inside the Mandaluyong City Jail on Wednesday, Sept. 20, marking the city's first mass civilian wedding held inside the city jail. Mandaluyong City Mayor Ben Abalos led the first mass civil wedding in the country inside the city jail. Dubbed as...
Two men were arrested after village watchmen caught them stealing Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) aerial cable wires on Tuesday, September 19, in Las Piñas City . According to the Southern Police District (SPD), the Las Piñas City police identified the suspects as...
Members of the Las Piñas Police Warrant and Subpoena Section (WSS) and the Intelligence Section (IS) arrested a man listed as the sixth wanted person at the district level and third most wanted in the city. The Southern Police District said the suspect identified as Reynaldo Nantes was...
Parañaque Mayor Eric Olivarez supported the launch of the “discipline zone” in Barangay Baclaran on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Atty. Fernando "Ding" Soriano/Photo from Parañaque PIO Olivarez said the “discipline zone” program in Barangay Baclaran was spearheaded by the local police under the...
Parañaque City Mayor Eric Olivarez visited the city’s Center for Children with Special Needs located in Barangay Sto. Nino to join the programs for children marking the 20th Cerebral Palsy Awareness and Protection Week on Monday, Sept. 18. Photo from Parañaque PIO Olivarez...
There will be no water for six hours in some areas in Taytay, Cainta, and Binangonan between Thursday, September 21, up to September 22, Friday, due to Manila Water’s maintenance works. In its advisory, Manila Water announced that some portions of Taytay, particularly areas in Barangay San Isidro...
The Parañaque city government recognized the barangays who won in the “Linis Ligtas Kontra Dengue” program competition in support of “Denguue Awareness Month” last June. Photo from Parañaque PIO The awarding of winners was held on Monday, Sept. 18, at the Parañaque City Hall...
The Caloocan City government has announced that it is offering free cervical cancer screening and detection services for the women in the city throughout the month of September. The free services are part of the city government’s celebration of the Cervical Cancer Awareness month and will be...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- AI is both a threat and an opportunity for journalism, with more than half of those surveyed for a new report saying they had concerns about its ethical implications on their work. While 85 percent of respondents had experimented with generative AI such as ChatGPT or...
US Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) UNITED NATIONS, United States -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set Wednesday to host a climate meeting marred at...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman to two years in prison and handed her a heavy fine after she recited an Islamic prayer before eating pork in a viral TikTok video widely criticised in the Muslim-majority country. Lina Mukherjee, 33, was found guilty of "spreading...
