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The Manila Electric Company has joined in the preparations for the much anticipated Black Nazarene procession on Jan. 9. Nazareno 2024 (Photo courtesy of the Quiapo Church) With less than two weeks before the traslacion procession of the revered Poong Hesus Nazareno, Meralco responded to the request of the Manila …

Juan Luna MPD PCP commander PMajor Bernardino Diaz Venturina shows the illegal firecrackers they confiscated from sellers in Divisoria, Manila on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. According to the Department of Health (DOH), fireworks victims have reached 52 and five were reported to have amputated their finger. (Video Noel B. Pabalate) …

The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden's bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously non-aligned Nordic country closer to membership in the Western military alliance. Approval needed in Turkish parliament's general assembly, as Hungary still stalling The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee gave its …

The Quebec government has reached tentative agreements on working conditions with all the unions that are part of a labour alliance called the common front. Negotiations around salaries and benefits are still ongoing. Negotiations around salaries continue The Quebec government has reached tentative agreements on working conditions with all the …

ILOILO CITY – The Alliance for Peace, Environment, and Sustainability (APES-Metro Iloilo) and Sentrong Alyansa ng mga Mamamayan para sa Bayan (Sambayanan-Panay) called for peace as the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) celebrated its 55th founding anniversary on Tuesday, December 26. FORMER communist rebels hold a rally in Iloilo …

The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) has recorded 15,679fire incidents in the country from Jan. 1 to Dec. 26 this year, which represented a 20.7-percent increase compared to the 12,000 fire incidents in the same period in 2022. In a news briefing on Tuesday, Dec. 26, BFP Spokesperson Supt. Analee …

(PCSO) Lotto players have the chance to win an estimated P545 million in the Ultra Lotto 6/58 draw on Tuesday evening, Dec. 26, said the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). The jackpot estimate increased to P545 million after there was no grand prize winner in the Dec. 24 draw with …

A man involved in manufacturing illegal firecrackers was arrested by the police in Bocaue, Bulacan on Sunday, Dec. 24. Based on the report submitted to Bulacan Police Director Col. Relly B. Arnedo, a 38-year-old man from Sitio Bihonan, Barangay Biñang 1st, Bocaue, Bulacan was arrested in the act of making …

(Photo from Pixabay) Christmas celebrations resulted in 16 new cases of fireworks-related injuries in the country, bringing the total number of cases this holiday season to 28, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, Dec. 25. The injured individuals ranged in age from six to 35, based on DOH’s …

ILOILO CITY – An Ati Indigenous Peoples (IPs) tribe here received Christmas gifts from this city’s sole power distributor MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) of the Razon Group. “We chose the Aeta tribe because there are many children who really need help. This year and the coming years, …