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The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) reported on Monday, Jan. 1, a slight drop of fire incidents in the country in December 2023. From 1,090 in December 2022, the BFP data stated that it went down to 1.024 in December 2023. In a GMA News report, BFP spokesperson Supt. Analee …

The Makati City government has announced that the yellows cards of residents living in the 10 Enlisted Men’s Barrio (EMBO) villages (which are now part of Taguig City based on the Supreme Court ruling) will no longer be valid starting Monday, Jan. 1. The yellow cards were given by the …

No Filipino hurt or killed, PHL gov’t says This aerial photo provided by Jiji Press shows a rescue vehicle (C) parked next to a seven-storey building which fell over in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture on January 2, 2024, a day after a major earthquake struck the Noto region. (Photo by Jiji …

No Filipino hurt or killed, PHL gov’t says A building collapses in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 1, 2024. (Photo by Yusuke Fukuhara / The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP) (Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos on Tuesday, Jan. 2, expressed solidarity with Japan after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Ishikawa prefecture on …

AMLC briefing on Tuesday, Jan. 2./PCO/ (Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has directed the Anti-Money Laundering Council and all concerned agencies to address the strategic deficiencies that would lead to the removal of the Philippines from the global money laundering “gray list” in 2024. This is according to AMLC Executive Director …

FIGHT AGAINST JEEPNEY MODERNIZATION GOES ON. Members of the Transport group PISTON and the No To PUV Phaseout Coalition press their demand for the government to scrap the mandatory franchise consolidation set to end on Dec.31, 2023 as a precondition to the jeepney modernization which they described as ‘flawed, anti-poor, …

BIG TEMBLOR. This map of Japan pinpoints the epicenter of a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 1. Below shows an image taken in Hong Kong that shows a warning message on a screen from a live feed on NHK World, asking people to evacuate from the area after the earthquake hit …

WORTH A SMILE. President Marcos Jr. smiles as he answers questions from the media on the last day of the ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation Commemorative Summit in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday. With Speaker Martin Romualdez (below, seated third from left) and some Cabinet members, Mr. Marcos reported receiving P14.5 billion …

ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), Vice President SaraDuterte (PPAB, Facebook) Constructing 2,201 new classrooms in 2023 is nothing to brag about if the actual classroom shortage in the country is nearly 75 times the figure. Thus, said House Deputy Minority leader ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro, who …

President Marcos has urged Filipinos to embody the spirit of kindness and compassion while reminding them that they could become catalysts of the country’s meaningful transformation this coming New Year. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) Marcos said this as Filipinos bid goodbye to 2023 on Sunday, Dec. 31 …