News Roundup

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:53:03 +0000

By JHON ALDRIN CASINAS At least 100 runners wearing stilettos raced along the stretch of Shoe Avenue in Marikina City for this year’s “Tour De Takong” or stiletto race on Saturday. Among the runners were members of the Philippine Army who proudly wore their high-heeled shoes and dashed the 550-meter race track towards the finish […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 09:51:59 +0000

A masked robber raped a 19-year-old woman inside a house at an exclusive subdivision in Parañaque City and made off with more than P2 million worth of valuables on Thursday morning, police reported Friday. Police Corporal Mary Ellen Ramos, case investigator, said the burglar managed to enter the house by destroying the padlock of the gate […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:11:16 +0000

The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has acquired two units of high-end combat Bell AH-1S “Cobra” helicopters, one of the most powerful attack helicopters in the world, from a donation by the government of Jordan. Defense spokesperson Arsenio Andolong said on Thursday that the two Cobra helicopters are set to be formally added to the PAF’s […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:02:10 +0000

Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Jaime Morente ordered yesterday immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and other ports to rigidly screen Filipinos traveling to Dubai to stop them from going and working in Iraq which is subject of deployment ban due peace and order problem there. Morente said syndicates are using Dubai […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 03:57:03 +0000

  Police arrested Thursday six persons who were allegedly producing fake senior citizens’ identification cards in Manila. Police identified the suspects as Rizaldy Sayana, Carlo Magno, Carlito Ibarra, Chris Alonzo, Joshua Flores, and Angelica Aranda. Investigation showed the Manila Police District Special Mayor’s Reaction Team (MPD Smart) and the Bureau of Permits and Licenses Office […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 06:07:32 +0000

Days after causing alarm with an unscheduled trip to the hospital, President Donald Trump tweeted a photo-shopped image of himself Wednesday as a rippling, bare-chested boxer. The president is furious over media speculation following his sudden trip to a government hospital outside Washington last Saturday and the startling tweet was his latest attempt to put […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 04:50:09 +0000

  Bureau of Immigration (BI) agents have arrested 17 alien vendors in a raid in Divisoria, Manila. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said most of them were males caught selling imported agricultural produce without immigration visas. The operations arose from complaints of local vendors about losing their livelihood due to competition from illegal aliens. “We were […]