Despite the exertions of the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) to stop politicians from buying votes, money ruled the day in many parts of the country on Monday as Filipinos voted in midterm elections.
“Every time I close my eyes, I keep seeing my friends and fellow workers who died,” recounted Rodrigo, who said that he had not slept for the past two days.
Thousands of residents in Tacloban City, Leyte and St. Bernard, Southern Leyte were evacuated as a preemptive measure even as heavy rains spawned by Typhoon “Pablo” started pouring in various areas in the Visayas.
More than 1,000 persons in the coastal areas of Talisay City in Cebu and in Iloilo and Negros were evacuated after strong winds and huge waves caused by Tropical Storm “Gener” damaged around 300 houses.
A 24-year-old woman confessed to having killed her two children on Monday in a case that baffles police in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental province.
The two suspects in the killing of a doctor here are being investigated for possible involvement in another killing, this time of a call center agent in September 2011.
A 16-year-old suspect took a video of how he and his companion killed a prominent doctor here inside the victim’s house last week.
Environment officials ordered a mining firm operating in Leyte to pay for losses incurred by owners of fish pens and cages and which had been blamed on the firm’s operations.
Armed men believed to be members of the New People’s Army (NPA) attacked the police station of Can-avid, Eastern Samar, but no one was hurt.
BACOLOD CITY—A Regional Trial Court judge was ambushed and killed by a lone gunman while driving home past 6 p.m. Tuesday in Ilog town, Negros Occidental. Police, however, have yet to determine the motive in the killing of Judge Henry Arles of RTC in Kabankalan City although they didn’t discount the possibility that it was [...]
After the government approved a provisional 50-centavo fare increase in jeepney fares, can higher bus and taxi fares be far behind?
Tayasan, Jimalalud and La Libertad have turned into virtual ghost towns as people refuse to go back to their homes in the coastal villages, shaken by continued aftershocks four days after a strong earthquake struck the province.
Soldiers digging through mounds of loose earth and boulders in a landslide-hit village here found the remains of a victim Thursday day amid fears that chances of finding survivors had become slim.
