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Search on for 14 missing after boat collision
Rescuers from the Philippine Coast Guard on Monday were searching for 14 people who went missing after a local fishing boat collided with a Hong Kong-flagged cargo vessel and sank off the coast of Mamburao town in Occidental ...
- June 30, 2020
Año: Jinggoy Estrada violated 5 ECQ rules
For Interior Secretary Eduardo Año and San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora, former Sen. Jinggoy Estrada violated several protocols under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) when he conducted a relief drive on Sunday in the ...
- May 5, 2020
What China fears is democracy
Last Tuesday, Social Weather Stations released the following findings of its new survey of Filipino public opinion about China (SWS July 3-6, 2020 National Mobile Phone Survey—Report No. 3: “Stratbase ADR Institute sponsors ...
- July 18, 2020
Gov't runs after firm selling land along Laguna lake shores
A developer, earlier called out by Malacañang for misrepresenting President Rodrigo Duterte’s message as a company endorsement, is facing a string of complaints and investigation by different government agencies over a ...
- August 11, 2020
Chinese research ship back in PH
A Chinese ship that was spotted in northern Philippine waters in 2020 was sighted again, this time on the country’s eastern side before it left that area on Monday morning. But according to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), ...
- February 2, 2021
PH company wants to build bigger Navy ships to patrol seas
A local shipbuilder is considering building bigger vessels for territorial defense and patrolling of the country’s waters in the near future. Propmech Corp. said it was “definitely interested” to work with the government ...
- January 18, 2021
Fish canners warn of shutdown: If factories shut down, the entire canning industry will collapse, affecting over 30,000 workers, warns biz group
Eleven fish canneries in the city that supply around 85 percent of the canned sardines found in the country’s supermarket shelves and sari-sari stores could shut down as a result of the community quarantine imposed by the ...
- March 23, 2020
PH protests Chinese ships in WPS
The Philippines has expressed concern that some 220 vessels, believed to be manned by Chinese maritime militia personnel, were spotted on March 7 in the disputed South China Sea, the latest example of tensions in the crucial ...
- March 22, 2021
A white sand beach in Manila Bay?
Who asked for a white sand beach in Manila Bay? Definitely not the 15,000 or so families languishing in poverty, hunger, and joblessness in Baseco, the biggest coastal informal settlement in Manila. Of course, the truckloads ...
- September 20, 2020
US backs PH amid China's new incursion in West PH Sea
The US government reiterated on Monday that it stands by the Philippines amid the latest incursion of China in the West Philippine Sea. “The United States stands with our ally, the Philippines, in the face of the PRC’s ...
- March 30, 2021