More than 50 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) groups strutted their colorful and festive Carnival and Mardi Gras outfits during the Metro Manila Pride March in Makati City on Saturday afternoon.
A national alliance of gay groups and a United Nations (UN) official on Saturday called on President Aquino and his Cabinet to voluntarily take an HIV-AIDS test to help dispel the stigma associated with routine testing for this disease.
With just five days to go before the proposed implementation of a modified truck ban, Metro mayors and truck operators have yet to agree on the guidelines for the scheme which is aimed at easing traffic during the holiday season.
A two-year-old child sustained serious injuries after she was stabbed thrice by her own father inside their residence in Princecourt Town Homes II, Better Living, Barangay (village) Don Bosco, Parañaque City, on Monday afternoon.
More than 100 shanties were razed in a fire that hit a slum area in Las Piñas City before noon Monday.
About 3,000 tobacco farmers, cigarette-factory workers and street vendors demonstrated in front of the Senate building in Pasay City on Tuesday to protest the proposed “sin tax” bill which would raise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol products to raise P40-billion in additional government revenue.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima ordered the relief of New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Superintendent Ramon Reyes and other senior jail officers in a surprise ocular inspection at last week’s grenade blast site in the NBP’s maximum security compound in Muntinlupa City on Monday morning.
An Agusan del Sur representative was injured after she lost control of her motorcycle while traversing the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) near the area of Bicutan, Taguig City, early Sunday.
Consider it the happy culmination of a two-year-long campaign for cleaner air and safer streets.
A four-hour fire destroyed more than 200 shanties in a crowded residential area next to the tracks of the Philippine National Railways (PNR) in Muntinlupa City Saturday evening.
Since the start of the year, the bones of more than 200 people buried at the Manila North Cemetery have been dug up and removed from their resting place after their next of kin failed to pay the annual fee or the “lease contract” for the use of the grave expired, according to the cemetery administrator.
A businessman and his daughter were killed by armed robbers who barged into their store in Manila while a Chinese woman trader lost around P1 million in cash to four men who broke into her house in Quezon City.
A body of a man whose head was wrapped in a rice sack was found along Elcano Street, Binondo, Manila, early Sunday morning.
