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Credit to Author: Bernadette Tamayo| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:18:58 +0000

CHINA is ready to help the Philippines bring home overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East to help them escape a full-blown war that could break out between the United States and Iran. The Chinese Embassy has confirmed the information received by The Manila Times that Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian granted President Rodrigo Duterte’s […]

Credit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:18:48 +0000

Several news organizations have obtained video that appears to show a missile being fired into the Tehran sky and striking an object, around the same time that a Ukrainian plane crashed just after taking off from the city’s airport. News of the video came hours after the leaders of Canada and Britain said they had […]

Credit to Author: Darwin Pesco| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:18:30 +0000

This year’s Traslacion finished much earlier than in previous years, but the fervor of the 2 million barefoot devotees who joined the annual procession of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila was at its usual fever pitch. Swarms of the faithful, wearing maroon t-shirts, lined the shortened route of the procession, but the crowd was […]

Credit to Author: Javier J. Ismael| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:16:37 +0000

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a bill providing another salary increase for government workers this year. Duterte, with Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go acting as witness, signed the Salary Standardization Law (SSL) 5 in Malacañang on Wednesday, based on photos released by the Palace. In a statement, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said the new […]

Credit to Author: Bernadette Tamayo| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:15:47 +0000

Only Filipino workers who want to leave Iraq after tensions escalated in the Middle East will be repatriated by the Philippine government. The apparent shift from the previous order of President Rodrigo Duterte for the mandatory evacuation of all 1,640 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Iraq came about as the United States and Iran defused […]

Credit to Author: Darwin Pesco| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:14:25 +0000

TIAONG, Quezon: Three skeletal remains, burnt beyond recognition and believed to be that of a former Batangas congressman and two companions, were found inside a car on Thursday morning in Barangay San Francisco in this town. Residents who saw a burning vehicle on a bridge past midnight alerted police. When the fire died down after […]

Credit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:21:03 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said he had given the go signal to present new contracts to Metro Manila’s two water concessionaires. In his speech during the oath taking of newly appointed government officials in Malacañang, Duterte reiterated his offer to Manila Water Co. Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Inc. to accept the new water […]

Credit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:18:22 +0000

TEHRAN: Iran fired missiles on Wednesday at Iraqi bases housing the United States military, officials in Washington and Tehran said, in the first act of the Islamic republic’s promised revenge for the US killing of a top Iranian general. The Pentagon said it was still “working on initial battle damage assessments” after “Iran launched more […]

Credit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:14:13 +0000

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has reappointed Dr. Dante A. Ang, chairman emeritus of The Manila Times, as special envoy for international public relations. A list of presidential appointees that Malacañang released on Tuesday showed that Ang was appointed on January 2. Ang’s appointment was coursed through the Department of Foreign Affairs. Public relations work is not […]

Credit to Author: Catherine S. Valente, TMT| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:03:10 +0000

Most Filipinos believe that there are “ninja cops” or police officers involved in drug recycling, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released on Tuesday. The nationwide poll, conducted from December 13 to 16 among 1,200 respondents, showed 78 percent of Filipino adults believe that there are ninja cops among members of the […]