Two delivery riders were accosted by authorities after they tried to sneak in packages allegedly containing illegal drugs to two quarantined returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) at an isolation facility in Taguig City, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and Taguig City Police reported Friday, Aug. 20....
The coronavirus vaccines are not yet for sale in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members prior to his talk to the people at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Matina, Davao City...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) District Surigao del Norte has intensified enforcement of strict security coastal and seaborne patrols to deter illegal entries as the province was placed under stricter protocols to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant cases. PCG Surigao del...
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos has appealed to Filipinos on Friday, Aug. 13 not to take a third dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, saying that the so-called "booster" shot is "illegal". MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/...
Joint operatives from the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have arrested a South Korean national wanted in his own country for large scale fraud. (Photo from BI Facebook page) BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said 61-year-old Lee Sanghun was apprehended based on...
The Quezon City government has passed a measure imposing jail time and fine on those who will commit illegal acts related to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. Under Ordinance No. SP-3032 S-2021, penalties await people who will be caught to be behind the fraudulent sale, distribution...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has deported a South Korean fugitive wanted in his own country for operating an illegal online gambling site on the Internet. (Photo by Simon Hattinga Verschure/ Unsplash) BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said that 44-year-old Park Junyoung has been flown to Incheon,...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) apprehended two motorbancas engaged in illegal fishing off Caluya, Antique on Saturday, July 31. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) apprehended two motorbancas engaged in illegal fishing off Caluya, Antique on Saturday, July 31, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the PCG) The...
President Duterte once more defended law enforcement agencies on the killing of drug suspects against human rights advocates, claiming that Filipinos are the ones benefiting from such operations. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his regular address to the nation on August 2, 2021. (PCOO...
Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Monday, August 2, asked why some Chinese nationals are supposedly getting "bolder" in their multi-billion-peso drug operations in the Philippines. Senator Panfilo Lacson (Czar Dancel/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) ‘’How long have they been operating here? Do they have...
A spokesman for the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) praised what he describes as a "tremendous success" of the drug war launched by President Duterte since July 2016. “Yung kritiko they focus on the EJK (extra judicial killings). Ang narrative nila ipakita na it has been a...
Authorities seized over P790,000 worth of illegal hardwood lumbers in Surigao del Norte after the interception of a truck carrying the illegal-cut woods on Sunday, July 18. Authorities seized over P790,000 worth of illegal hardwood lumbers in Surigao del Norte on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Photo...
