Many residents of the Visayas and Mindanao woke up to a wet and windy Christmas after a low pressure area in the Pacific ocean developed into a tropical depression then intensified into a storm on Tuesday.
The Christmas Eve celebrations in the country were “generally peaceful” except for a few untoward incidents monitored by the police, Philippine National Police Chief Director General Alan Purisima told Radyo Inquirer 990AM on Tuesday.
A new low pressure area (LPA) entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) Monday morning and was seen to bring moderate to heavy rains in Eastern Visayas and northeastern Mindanao, the state weather bureau said.
A new low pressure area (LPA) entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) Monday morning and was seen to bring moderate to heavy rains in Eastern Visayas and Northeastern Mindanao, the state weather bureau said.
Fire hit a commercial building near the New Divisoria Mall early Monday morning and injured at least three people, according to radio reports.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday stood by its decision to postpone the plebiscite for the ratification of Cabanatuan City’s conversion into a highly urbanized city (HUC) and re-set it to an unspecified date after the May 2013 polls.
A constitutionalist and former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman on Wednesday joined Malacañang officials in saying that there was no need to amend the Constitution to accommodate the preliminary peace deal for Mindanao, saying that what was needed was a new “organic law” on the autonomous region.
Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson on Wednesday said that the P350 billion flood control master plan could benefit more than a million Filipinos.
MANILA, Philippines — Hundreds of families living near the Marikina River were evacuated Tuesday in various schools and gyms in the city after local authorities raised the fourth alarm. In a statement posted on the Ateneo De Manila facebook website and in a tweet posted on the INQUIRER.net weather live tweets, the following were [...]
Former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada ruled out the supercoalition proposed between the Liberal Party and the United Nationalist Alliance.
Batangas Representative Mark Llandro Mendoza has called on agriculture producers to abandon their threat of declaring a five-day market holiday, saying this would greatly affect the sector.
The fight against a “rotten judiciary” is the new battleground for democracy in the country, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said Tuesday during the country’s 114th Independence Day anniversary.
Vice President Jejomar Binay on Tuesday called on Filipinos to remain united in the fight for better life.
