Supermarket bagger jailed over P60 chocolate bars
By Erika SaulerWas it worth it? For allegedly stealing two chocolate bars worth P60, a grocery “bagger” was arrested and charged with qualified theft in a Manila regional trial court.
Was it worth it? For allegedly stealing two chocolate bars worth P60, a grocery “bagger” was arrested and charged with qualified theft in a Manila regional trial court.
Shopping mall giant, SM, is planting 330 new trees to replace 11 trees that had been sick since April.
A local court dismissed an environmental lawsuit that stopped the earth balling of at least 182 pine and alnus trees by a shopping mall here for an expansion project, ending for now a standoff that had affected all tree-cutting applications in the summer capital.
In response to the needs of flood victims in evacuation centers, SM City Novaliches in coordination with SM Foundation gathered truckloads of groceries for thousands of families who needed food and other relief goods.
SM Supermalls will join the whole nation in commemorating the Philippine independence on June 12.
The sea in Cebu City’s east coast will provide a backdrop for the country’s Nov. 30 national celebration of the canonization of Visayan martyr Pedro Calungsod.
BAGUIO CITY—Shopping mall giant SM on Wednesday allowed protesting Baguio residents to inspect a section of Luneta Hill where it transplanted 41 trees from an expansion site of SM City Baguio. The transfer of these trees is the subject of a civil case filed by the Cordillera Global Network (CGN), a group composed of residents, [...]
Shopping mall giant SM will allow Wednesday environmental groups, church leaders and city officials to enter a restricted area at the SM City Baguio compound to see for themselves whether mall management had transplanted 40 alnus trees and a pine tree on April 9.
The controversy over the fate of 182 trees, which a shopping mall intends to uproot and transfer, has provided the government with a laboratory to help it design a mechanism for transplanting Baguio’s pine trees.
Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo on Thursday said Malacañang will gather officials of the shopping mall giant SM and the city government and representatives of environmental groups on April 16 to settle their dispute over the displacement of 182 trees from Luneta Hill to make way for the mall’s expansion.
Foresters of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) supervised the earth balling (transfer) of trees in a shopping mall compound that have become the subjects of a 72-hour temporary environmental protection order (Tepo) issued by a local court, a DENR official said Wednesday.
People who were born, raised and have decided to live in Baguio City will always fight for the survival of the pine tree, which has set apart the summer capital from the rest of the country for more than 100 years.
Seven construction workers at the SM City-Gensan sustained varying degrees of injuries when the platform they were using collapsed Wednesday afternoon.
