SOUTH KOREAN NABBED FOR KETAMIN, ECSTASY TABLETS IN ANGELES CITY
BY KEVIN GALANG ANTI-ILLEGAL drugs operatives on Saturday arrested a South Korean national in a drug buy-bust operation in Angeles City, Pampanga. Angeles City...
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MMDA TO ADD MORE BOATS FOR PASIG RIVER FERRY SERVICE
THE Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Saturday announced that it is set to acquire additional boats for the Pasig River ferry service fleet...
PCSO TO SHOULDER DOCTOR’S PROFESSIONAL FEE BY OCTOBER – SPEAKER ROMUALDEZ
HOUSE Speaker Martin Romualdez on Wednesday announced that the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has agreed to shoulder the professional fees of doctors treating...
DOJ PROBING BATAAN OIL SPILL AS POSSIBLE OIL SMUGGLING CASE
THE Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking into the possibility of oil smuggling in the Bataan oil spill incident. In a news forum in...
3 CHINESE FUGITIVES ARRESTED IN PARAÑAQUE
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) said its agents arrested three Chinese nationals who are wanted for a string of criminal cases in the Philippines...
VP’S HUSBAND, BROTHER, MICHAEL YANG LINKED TO DRUG SMUGGLING
A FORMER intelligence officer of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Friday linked lawyer Manases Carpio, the husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, her brother...
3 PMA CADETS GET LIFE OVER HAZING DEATH OF DARWIN DORMITORIO
THREE former cadets of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) were found guilty over the death of Cadet Fourth Class Darwin Dormitorio due to hazing in...
BAN TOXICS URGES CAUTION IN USE OF ‘KATOL,’ INSECTICIDES AMID RISING DENGUE CASES
BAN Toxics, an environmental organization, cautioned the public on health hazards posed by mosquito coils and insecticides amid the rising cases of dengue. A...
URGENT CARE, AMBULATORY SERVICE CAN BE AVAILED VIA BUCAS CENTERS – DOH
THE country now has 28 Bagong Urgent Care and Ambulatory Service (BUCAS) centers, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said on Friday. According to Herbosa, BUCAS...
NEGROS LAWMAKER IS NEW TESDA CHIEF
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed Negros Occidental Rep. Jose Francisco “Kiko” Bantug Benitez as the new Director General of the Technical Education...
6 CHINESE NATIONALS ARRESTED IN PAMPANGA OVER ALLEGED CYBER-SCAM
BY KEVIN GALANG SIX Chinese nationals allegedly involved in “cyber-related scams” on Thursday were arrested in a raid in Clarkfield, Pampanga. The National Bureau...
FISH, SHELLFISH FROM CAVITE STILL NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION — BFAR
FISH and shellfish from the coastal areas of Cavite are still unsafe for human consumption following the oil spill, the Bureau of Fisheries and...
PH, SINGAPORE EXCHANGE MOUS ON PROTECTION OF HEALTH WORKERS, ENVIRONMENT
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Thursday witnessed the exchange of two memoranda of understanding aimed at protecting Filipino...
DA TO OPEN 800-1,000 KADIWA STORES
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has revealed it will open Kadiwa franchising to private operators or cooperatives as the agency gears toward establishing more...
ASF HITS 2 CITIES, 1 TOWN IN LAGUNA
THE Laguna Provincial Veterinary Office on Thursday confirmed that two cities and one town in the province have been infected with the African Swine Fever...
PNP FILES MURDER RAPS VS 5 SUSPECTS IN BEAUTY QUEEN, ISRAELI BF SLAY CASE
The Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) has filed murder charges against five individuals allegedly involved in the gruesome killing of Pampanga...
ROMUALDEZ BATS FOR SSS MEMBERSHIP. LIFE INSURANCE, PENSION FOR BARANGAY OFFICIALS
SPEAKER Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez told thousands of barangay officials throughout the country that they may soon become members of the Social Security System...
OBSERVANCE OF NINOY AQUINO DAY MOVED TO AUG. 23
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has issued Proclamation No. 665 moving the observance of the Ninoy Aquino Day from August 21, 2024, Wednesday, to...
SINGAPORE PRESIDENT IN PH FOR 3-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and First Lady Louise Araneta-Marcos welcomed Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his spouse, Mrs. Jane Ittogi Shanmugaratnam at Malacañan...
MARCOS SIGNS LAW CREATING MORE SHARI’A JUDICIAL DISTRICTS, CIRCUIT COURTS
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. signed into law Republic Act (RA) No. 12018, creating three additional Shari’a Judicial Districts and 12 circuit courts across the...
FEMALE KAGAWAD SHOT DEAD IN FRONT OF SON IN QUIAPO
A FEMALE village councilor was killed in front of her 11-year-old son in Quiapo, Manila. Victim Stella Sky Lim was walking home with her...
ASF VACCINE ROLLOUT NEXT WEEK – DA
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is targeting to roll out vaccines for African Swine Fever (ASF) on Tuesday next week, according to Agriculture Secretary...
CAYETANO PUSHES FOR STREAMLINED ‘AYUDA’ DISTRIBUTION
SENATOR Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday pushed for a more efficient approach to distributing government aid, saying administrative costs are eating up on the...
BACOLOR COP SACKED FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT
BY KEVIN GALANG A MEMBER of the Bacolor police in Pampanga on Wednesday was relieved from his post over alleged lascivious acts on a...
MISSING 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOUND DEAD IN SUGARCANE PLANTATION IN NEGROS OCC.
A FEMALE teenager who had been missing since July 29 was found dead on Wednesday in a sugarcane plantation in La Carlota City, Negros...
TODDLER SIBLINGS DIE IN BOHOL FIRE
TWO young siblings on Wednesday night died after they were trapped in their burning house in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. The victims, a 3-year-old girl,...
OMBUDSMAN ORDERS DISMISSAL FROM SERVICE OF ALICE GUO
SUSPENDED Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo was ordered dismissed from the service by the Office of the Ombudsman for grave misconduct. In an order...
POLICE CHIEF, 6 OTHERS HURT IN PAMPANGA PORTABLE STOVE BLAST
BY KEVIN GALANG A POLICE chief and six others were injured when a portable stove they were using to cook food on Tuesday exploded...
VILLAGE CHIEF GUNNED DOWN INSIDE BARANGAY HALL IN PAMPANGA
BY KEVIN GALANG CAR-RIDING assassins on Sunday shot dead a barangay chairman inside a village hall in Arayat, Pampanga. In a report to Police...
MANILA MAYOR AWARDS P500,000 CASH INCENTIVE TO OLYMPIAN POLE VAULTER EJ OBIENA
MANILA Mayor Dr. Honey Lacuna-Pangan on Wednesday afternoon awarded P500,000 in cash incentives to Olympian pole vaulter Ernest John “EJ” Obiena held at the...
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ONLINE SELLER, VENDOR BUSTED IN CABANATUAN
BY KEVIN GALANG POLICE on Monday arrested two persons in a drug buy-bust operation in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija. Nueva Ecija police director Col....
PBBM HONORS PINOY OLYMPIANS, GRANTS P50-M CASH, MEDAL OF MERIT, PRESIDENTIAL CITATIONS
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Tuesday honored 22 Filipino Olympians in a solemn ceremony at Malacañan Palace, where he awarded a total of...
MANILA TO DESIGNATE AUG. 4 AS ‘CARLOS YULO DAY’
THE City of Manila will officially designate August 4 as “Carlos Yulo Day” to celebrate the day the Olympic star won his first gold...
CACHE OF GUNS, BULLETS FOUND IN HOUSE OF ROB-HOMICIDE SUSPECT IN NUEVA ECIJA 
P4.5-M TAMPERED LPG TANKS CONFISCATED IN BATAAN 
LACSON CONFIRMS ‘MILITARY-BACKED PEOPLE POWER’ PLOT 
IMEE FILES BILL POSTPONING BARANGAY, SK ELECTIONS TO OCTOBER 2027