Security forces kill seven suspected criminals in Philippines
Philippine security forces have killed seven suspected criminals in a clash in southern Philippines, a military commander said Saturday.
Philippine security forces have killed seven suspected criminals in a clash in southern Philippines, a military commander said Saturday.
A 6.0 magnitude offshore earthquake rocked Leyte province in the central Philippines on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
In the archipelago of the Philippines, where history intertwines with the present, a modern-day Shakespearean drama unfolds.
Around 40 passengers have been rescued while 30 others are feared dead after a small boat capsized in a lake near the Philippine capital on Thursday, Philippine News Agency reported.
In a statement, the PCO said Marcos wants reform in the bureaucracy to curb smuggling, lower logistics costs and ensure ease of doing business as his administration works to prop up investments and business activity in the country, reports Xinhua news agency.
The effect of these unusually quick alignments for leadership in the Senate and the House, normally bitterly contested, is the certainty of incoming President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. having a “supermajority” in Congress.
Ever since she returned to the big screen at age 15 after a brief “retirement” as a child star, Jesusa Purificacion Levy Sonora, known to all and sundry as Susan Roces, proceeded to make a string of popular romantic comedies.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported that 164 died in the central Philippines while three died in the southern Philippines.
The government has evacuated over 7,000 people from 18 villages around the volcano.
Air pollution is a silent killer, and the impact on the Philippines has been grim. Per the report “Aiming Higher: Benchmarking the Philippine Clean Air Act,” approximately 66,000 premature deaths every year in the Filipino populace are linked to PM2.5 and NO2 pollution
