In line with Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte's advocacy to achieve food security, the city government has implemented a simplified procedure for the tax exemption of idle land being utilized for urban farming. Belmonte approved City Ordinance SP-2972 S-2020 in 2020 that gives tax payment exemption...
CAVITE – A 42-year-old man was arrested for stalking and making advances toward a 14-year-old girl in Naic on Sunday, Jan. 21. Naic Municipal Police Station (MPS) chief Lt. Col. Chester Noel R. Borlongan said the suspect, a tricycle driver operating around the victim’s school, reportedly gave a...
The arrested suspect (Photo courtesy of Las Piñas police) A man wanted for acts of lasciviousness was arrested by members of the Las Piñas City police Station and Intelligence Section (SIS) on Monday, Jan 22. The Southern Police District (SPD) said the suspect,...
Recovered evidence from the arrested suspects. (Photo from Pasay City police) A 35-year-old Chinese businesswoman was rescued from four men who tried to kidnap her by members of the Pasay City police Substation-1 on Monday, Jan. 22. Col. Mario Mayames, Pasay City police chief,...
Las Piñas City Mayor Imelda Aguilar gave her full support to the LGBTQIA+ community during the group’s oath taking ceremony on Jan 18. Aguilar gave her support to the newly elected officers of the Hope in Rainbow Alliance for Young and Adults (Hiraya) who took their oath of office...
(Photo courtesy of Parañaque PIO) Parañaque City Mayor Eric Olivarez advised residents in Barangay San Dionisio to be prepared for a power interruption that will be implemented by the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) on Jan. 26 to 27. Olivarez said the power interruption...
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry on Sunday said the death toll in the war-torn Palestinian territory breached 25,000 as Israel pushed its southward offensive and renewed bombardment in the north. Israel is pressing its push against Hamas in southern Gaza as it seeks to...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's top diplomat said her country is "ready to greet" Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media reported Sunday, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two authoritarian states. Traditional allies Russia and North Korea have recently boosted ties, with...
ANKARA, Turkey - Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh has held a meeting with the Turkish foreign minister, diplomatic sources said Sunday, in the first official contact between the two for more than three months. Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh (AFP/KARIM JAAFAR) Foreign Minister...
YANSHANPU, China - Authorities in central China's Henan Province were on Sunday looking into the cause of a night-time fire that killed 13 schoolchildren as they slept in a dormitory. Police stand outside a school where 13 people died in a fire in Yanshanpu, in China’s central Henan province on...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Russian plane believed to be carrying six people has crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport agency Rosaviatsia announced Sunday. The Falcon 10 "disappeared from the radar" and communication was lost on Saturday evening, the federal agency said....
MOSCOW, Russia - A Ukrainian strike on a market in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine left at least 18 people dead and 13 more wounded on Sunday, said the head of the Russian-controlledregion. Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed Donetsk region leader, said on Telegram that "at present, there are 18 dead...
