Philippine News

Military personnel stand guard while police investigators (background) look for evidence after a bomb attack in a Mindanao State University gymnasium in Marawi, Lanao del Sur on December 3, 2023. (Photo by Merlyn Manos/ AFP) (Eagle News) — One of the suspects in the weekend bombing of the Mindanao State …

Photo released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines shows Jafar Gamo Sultan, alias Jaf/Kurot, who was captured by government troops on Dec. 6, 2023 in relation to the Marawi explosion that left four people dead. The military says Sultan is an accessory in the bomb attack. Government forces arrested …

SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE. Members of the Manila Police District – Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit respond to a report of a suspicious box placed along the northbound lane of the Ayala footbridge near Malacañang Palace in Manila on Dec. 7, 2023. Norman Cruz PNP probes surge in bomb threats circulating via email …

The national unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 percent in October from 4.5 percent in the same month last year, the lowest tally since April 2005, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Thursday. In absolute numbers, the PSA said about 2.09 million Filipinos were unemployed in October this year, down from …

TARGET HARDENING. Manila Police District head Col. Arnold Thomas Ibay inspects the vicinity of Quiapo Church in Manila on Wednesday as the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) gears up for the incoming Simbang Gabi festivities. Norman Cruz Police hardens targets in Metro Manila as 2 suspects in Marawi blast …

TRAGIC CRASH. This handout photo taken on Dec. 5, 2023 and released on Dec. 6 by the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office shows rescue personnel working at the scene where a bus plunged into a ravine in Hamtic town in Antique, leaving at least 17 people dead. …

Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan assured residents that the city government can distribute all of the Christmas food boxes for each family in the city on or before Dec. 12. Photo from Bong Son/MANILA BULLETIN Lacuna-Pangan said during the distribution held in District 3 on Monday, Dec. 4, the city government …

Speaker Martin Romualdez Congress is reviewing the decriminalization of libel and abortion as part of efforts to decongest jails, Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez said Wednesday in an address to the National Jail Decongestion Summit. Romualdez said the House was committed to lending a hand in the collective effort to …

A magnitude 5.7 aftershock jolted Surigao del Sur at 5:42 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 5, following the 6.8-magnitude quake in Cagwait, Surigao del Sur. Phivolcs This is the third aftershock felt at magnitude 5.7 that hit Cagwait, Surigao del Sur in two days since its occurrence. Phivolcs traced its epicenter …

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Tuesday, Dec. 5, said the northeast monsoon or “amihan” will continue to be the “dominant” wind system in the country for the next two to three days. (Photo credit to MB Visual Content Group) Weather specialist Chris Perez said the …