Manila ranked 51st in the Safe Cities Index 2021 list of The Economist Intelligence Unit. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The annual report measures the urban safety of 60 major cities worldwide based on five categories: personal, health, infrastructure, digital, and environmental security. Manila...
We're not yet out of the woods. File photo (Maria Tan/AFP) Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos gave this explanation Monday, August 23, as he justified the retention of the eight-hour curfew in Metro Manila despite the downgrade of restrictions to modified...
Metro Manila will likely continue to record over 3,000 daily coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases until before the end of September due to a slow decrease in the rate of infections in the region, OCTA Research said on Monday, Aug. 23. "Based on the current patterns that we are seeing, which we hope...
Malacañang has assured residents affected by the two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila who have yet to receive the cash aid or "ayuda" that they can still get financial assistance despite the downgrade to less stringent quarantine status. Residents in Manila receive the...
Listed firm Manila Mining Corporation (MMC), an affiliate of Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company, will resume exploration drilling at its mining tenements in Placer, Surigao del Norte, a move that will be funded by planned stock rights offering that targets to raise P519 million. This, according to...
(PIXABAY) Independent research group OCTA on Monday, Aug. 23, said Metro Manila may hit 60,000 active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases by the middle of September. "We should be hitting a peak of about 60,000 active cases and it will happen around the middle of September. And even with a slower...
Ninety-five percent of tourism industry workers in the National Capital Region (NCR) have received their vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said. Workers belonging to the A4 priority group are inoculated with Sputnik V...
A 10-year-old garbage collector who later became the Mayor of the City of Manila. (Manila Public Information Office photo/ File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) "Isipin mo, basurero lang ako, naging Mayor pa ako ng Maynila. Lahat ng masasakit na salita, akusasyon, pandurog ng pagkatao, matitikman (mo)(I...
People flock outside Las Piñas Medical Hospital on Aug. 5, 2021 for a scheduled coronavirus vaccination. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, Aug. 23, that it has “observed” a community transmission of the Delta variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos bared Monday, Aug. 23, that almost 70 percent of people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Metro Manila are unvaccinated, prompting him to call on residents to get the life-saving jab. MMDA Chairman Benhur...
The local field registration centers of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Office for Overseas Voting (OFOV) in Metro Manila will be open during the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). Comelec/MB "We are open during MECQ. Overseas voting registrants can visit any of our local field...
It might be too late to save our planet and ourselves, unless we move right now MANILA DUST, MANILA DUSK In a study in 2019, the Philippines ranks third in air pollution deaths. In photo is the skyline of Manila In the grim novels kids these days like to read, they would often refer to a time...
