OPM bands, parties, fireworks to light up New Year countdown in Luneta
By Erika Sauler
A free concert featuring OPM bands, a street party and fireworks display are lined up for the New Year countdown in Luneta Park in Manila.
A free concert featuring OPM bands, a street party and fireworks display are lined up for the New Year countdown in Luneta Park in Manila.
If shopping malls can play Christmas songs all day long, they should have no problem playing the national anthem three times a day.
For children of Dumaguete City, there is no end to Christmas. They are making the most of what remains of their holiday break to enjoy the rides at the carousel, ferris wheel, orbiter and bumper cars, and the crossbow target, water gun and other games at the Christmas Carnival in Freedom Park in Negros Oriental’s capital. They hope to bring home more toys and sweet treats as prizes.
The children of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have been visible of late in the province’s second district, standing in her place while she is on hospital arrest for a plunder case.
There are still a few Filipino children who have never set foot on a shopping mall, which has defined lifestyles for urban and rural families, because they simply can’t afford that kind of life.
For protagonists in the bloody communist insurgency still raging in the country’s rural areas for the past four decades, Christmas is not only one awaited moment to temporarily rest their guns.
At least nine firecracker blast victims on Tuesday were treated in different hospitals in Cebu and Mandaue cities.
Just as the presence of Jesus Christ is God’s gift to all mankind, our presence to loved ones is the best gift this Christmas, Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle said in his homily during the Christmas Eve Mass.
Two men were killed while two of their female relatives were injured after a man went on a shooting spree in a Quezon City neighborhood on Christmas Day.
At least 32 persons, six of them adults, were arrested by the police for violating the city’s firecrackers ban on Christmas Eve.
Makati residents enjoyed an extended performance of Christmas carols from six student choirs that competed in the city’s annual choral competition.
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.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has not monitored any security threats during the yuletide season, but has raised its alert status to ensure the safety of people travelling to and from their provinces.
