aaaMARAWI CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday declared Marawi “liberated from terrorist influence,” and it was time to heal the wounded and rebuild the city of 200,000. This comes a day after the top two leaders of the terror group were killed, - Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf bandit group who was said to be the “emir,” ...
aaaA 19-year-old passenger bound for Tacloban on Monday died at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 4 owing to suspected heatstroke. An attending physician pronounced the victim dead on Monday afternoon. Public Affairs Division chief Connie Bungag of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) identified the victim as Edgel Ayo...
aaaBALITANG PH (Manila) : On Thursday, Hsu Kong-yung , the spokesman of Taiwan’s executive cabinet, said that Filipinos can travel to Taiwan visa-free as part of its government's effort to promote its New Southbound Policy. Premier Lai Ching-te said the Executive cabinet approved the plan on Wednesday to issue 14-day visa-free status to citizens of ...
aaa CUSTOMS officials at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 on Sunday held the check-in-luggage of a lady passenger who arrived from Singapore for containing undeclared assorted jewelry weighing least a kilo. Customs collector-on-duty Paul Urrea identified the passenger as A. S. Flores, a resident of Pasay City and resid...
aaaSOME 130 Filipinos living in Puerto Rico who were severely affected by Hurricane Irma were repatriated and arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 before midnight on Wednesday. The 132 Filipino victims of Hurricane Irma, which slammed the US territory on Sept. 6, arrived on board Philippine Airlines chartered flight after av...
aaaAIRPORT policemen at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 arrested a lady security guard of Cebu Pacific for keeping a missing pouch containing assorted foreign currencies in her locker left by a passenger who arrived from Malaysia on Wednesday. NAIA Terminal 3 airport police officer-in-charge Capt. Bing Jose identified the lady gua...
aaaBALITANG PH : Father Teresito “Chito” Soganub and another hostage, a teacher, were rescued by government forces from the Maute group in Marawi City on Saturday ( Sept 16 ) after more than 100 days of being taken captives by the Islamic State group-aligned captors in the southern Philippines. Father Soganub, 51, the vicar-general of the prelate ...
aaaMANILA : The body of Horacio Tomas Topacio Castillo III of San Lorenzo Village in Makati was found at the corner of H. Lopez Blvd. and Infanta Street in Balut, Tondo at around 7:50 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Manila Police District, Philippine Star reports. The 22-year-old law student, who had hoped to become a senator, was clad in a white...
aaaTHE Philippine National Police (PNP) Aviation Security Group and the airport police department at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) recovered a World War II vintage bomb unearthed by construction workers who were digging the improvement of the drainage system along MIA road near the old Nayong Pilipino on Thursday afternoon. Manila I...
aaaAs Tropical Storm Maring moves away from Luzon, it has left many low-lying areas flooded in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, prompting landslide and flash floods. A number of households were forced to evacuate as floodwaters rose in a number of regions. Many commuters were stranded, classes were cancelled and government work was suspended in Metr...
