In the Bicol region, the government is looking unprepared not only for tropical cyclones, monsoon-induced rainfall and cataclysmic flooding, but also for Christmas. Specifically, the holiday travel rush. Youd think Christmas happened once in a blue
Last week, the inadequacy of firefighting capability was again highlighted in a fire in Tondokingbet, Manila that raged for nearly two days before it was put out. The fire that razed a four-story warehouse along Guidote street broke out at 7:51 p.m.
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Leni Robredo, in her six years as vice president, survived with a security detail of less than 100. In her final full year in office, Robredo had only 78 security personnel. So people are stunned that Vice President Sara Duterte had 433 security per
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2024-12-17Fourteen years after being arrested and imprisoned in a foreign land for drug trafficking, Mary Jane Veloso will finally be able to celebrate Christmas again with her family in the Philippines. Veloso, convicted and sentenced to death in Indonesia f
From aiming for minimum credible defense capabilityoogbet, the government is now aspiring for a world-class Armed Forces of the Philippines. The AFP can only hope that this objective, announced by President Marcos, will soon go beyond aspiration. Wh
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