This was how Makati Medical Center (MMC) Foundation chair Manny V. Pangilinan described the premier hospital’s public-private partnership with the Armed Forces of the Philippines under a memorandum of agreement signed on Wednesday.
Flash floods in southwestern France killed an elderly woman as the inundated grotto at the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes remained closed for a second day on Wednesday.
The city government of Makati will deploy 49 monitoring teams to check if establishments across the city are complying with the city’s plastic ban order, which will begin to take effect on Thursday (June 20).
A group of residents on Tuesday went to the city’s post office to send postcards, the traditional way, to President Benigno Aquino III and the postmaster general of the Philippine Postal Corp. (PhilPost).
A tornado left a trail of devastation in three coastal villages in Minglanilla town and the adjacent city of Talisay, southern Cebu, on Tuesday.
Adopt a college scholar among the youths of the Agta in the Sierra Madre mountains and help secure the future of the whole indigenous people.
How many times has he been to Sibuyan Island in Romblon? Delfin Clemente has lost count. The 53-year-old man has been there since Day One of the search operations and witnessed how the death toll grew. The hull of a capsized ship, bobbing out of the waters, had drawn international attention until it was finally towed away.
Singapore’s smog crisis from Indonesian forest fires worsened Wednesday as air pollution levels reached a 16-year high, triggering a run on medical masks and angry complaints from foreign tourists and locals.
State prosecutors are opposing a request by a member of the Ampatuan clan who has been charged with multiple murder in the Maguindanao massacre case to be examined at a government hospital on grounds he has not shown proof of his claim to be a diabetic and that the logistics for his transfer from a suburban Manila jail would be “troublesome.”
It’s that time of year again of massive flooding and traffic jams, and in the midst of it all President Aquino called an emergency meeting on Tuesday to assess yet again Metro Manila’s preparedness to deal with the monumental mess during a heavy rain.
The Pampanga River Basin (PRB), the main drainer of northern and Central Luzon, was not in the list of P351-billion worth of flood control projects that the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) approved in September 2012.
Philex Gold Philippines Inc. has put on hold its mining exploration in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, following a raid on its facility by suspected New People’s Army rebels in May.
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid program.
