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President Noynoy Aquino leaves for Malaysia for a two-day state visit, where he will meet the Malaysia’s King Abdul Halim and Prime Minister Najib Razak. Highlight of the visit is the pushing through of the peace process with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, wherein Malaysia serves as third party facilitator.
Alleged pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim-Napoles is safely back in her detention cell in Fort Santo Domingo, Sta Rosa Laguna after undergoing a medical check-up at the Philippine National Police General Hospital this morning (February 26). According to PNP Health Service Director Chief Supt. Alejandro Advincula Jr., her vital signs are stable and she is physically fit. PNP physicians in Camp Crame said her illness was not life-threatening and that she did not need […]
A fire in Barangay Nova Proper, Novaliches, Quezon City earlier this morning reached Task Force Alpha and left 100 families homeless. The fire burned a total of 35 houses.
Manila Electric Company or Meralco clarified that it cannot collect the additional sum reflected in the February bills of some of its customers due to the injunction issued by the Supreme Court. Meralco customers are also not required to pay the additional sum.
According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit the southeastern part of Calatagan, Batangas. Meanwhile, intensity earthquakes hit the islands of Looc and Lubang, Occidental Mindoro. No injuries were recorded.
The northeast monsoon affects Luzon and Visayas while trough of low pressure area affects eastern Mindanao. The whole country will experience fair weather with partly cloudy and cloudy skies with some areas experiencing isolated rain and thunderstorms.
To give inspiration and hope to the victims of typhoon Yolanda, armless Filipino-American pilot Jessica Cox visited the country, saying that she is proud of the resilience of the Filipino people and that she believes that the Yolanda victims can recover from the calamity.
By Michaela Del Callar MANILA, Feb. 25 (PNA) -– The Philippines on Tuesday strongly protested several cases of harassment allegedly committed by Chinese authorities on Filipino fishermen in the Scarborough Shoal off Manila’s northwestern coast, including last month’s water cannon assault on two Philippine fishing vessels in the area. Foreign Affairs acting Assistant Secretary Bernadette Catalla summoned Chinese Embassy Charge d’Affaires Sun Xiangyang to receive Manila’s diplomatic note indicating the government’s “vehement protest” over […]
MANILA, Feb. 25 (PNA) — This year‘s graduation rites in private and public elementary and secondary schools should be kept solemn, simple, prudent and economical, according to Department of Education – DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro who said on Tuesday that such occasion should fall on March 27 or 28. At the same time, Luistro said that schools and regions which have to conduct makeup classes due to calamities last year may schedule their graduation day […]
What was supposed to be a joyful, historic 28th anniversary celebration of the 1986 EDSA revolution is now marred in controversy as various media groups and critics of the Cybercrime Law staged the first-ever ‘Black Tuesday’. Denouncing the Aquino government for “betraying the spirit of EDSA”, sympathizers of the new law, which the linked to as E-Martial Law, called on ‘netizens’ to make their own protests offline. At the same, petitioners against the Cybercrime Law […]
Two holduppers were killed in a violent police encounter in Barangay Tatalon, Quezon City. The suspects declared a hold-up in a passenger jeep not knowing that police were already following the said vehicle. The policemen first noticed the commotion inside the jeep, and tailed the vehicle. The suspects exchange fired with the police, resulting in the death of two of the suspects, while one escaped with some of the belongings taken from the passengers.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines is leaving it up to the Department of Foreign Affairs to handle the recent Panatag shoal incident where Chinese Coast Guards reportedly fired water canons at Filipino fishermen to drive them away from the disputed shoal last January 27. According to AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista, they are avoiding a military confrontation between the two countries. He added that the government prefers to resort to international arbitration […]
