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MANILA, Philippines – Heavy rains brought by the southwest monsoon, or habagat, continued to affect parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila on Monday, triggering flooding in several areas and prompting local governments and Malacañang to suspend classes and adopt alternative work arrangements. The state weather bureau said Metro Manila and several provinces could experience heavy

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Hundreds of seedlings were planted in identified reforestation areas in Barangay Busay, Moalboal, Cebu, on Saturday morning, August 15, as local officials, students and environmental groups joined a community tree-planting activity. The activity, dubbed “Green Legacy Busay,” brought together the Municipal Government of Moalboal, JCI Moalboal Katropa, student leaders and faculty

SR&T Industrial Supply drew first blood over Boysen Paints, 88-73, in Game 1 of their best-of-three finals series in the Cebu Architects Basketball Club (CABC) 8th Corporate Cup on Sunday, August 16, at Game Changer in Mandaue City.

AGNO, Pangasinan — For 31-year-old Robin Bondol Trinidad, drifting alone in a small motorized fishing boat beneath storm-darkened skies and blinding rain for three days and two nights was nothing short of a miracle. Trinidad was adrift from Aug. 13 until he reached land on Sunday, Aug. 16. He had set out from the coast

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Mark Villar has filed a bill that seeks to extend the validity of the Professional Identification Cards (PICs) issued by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) to five years. Senate Bill No. 2391, or the “PRC ID 5-year Validity Act,” filed by Sen. Mark Villar on Aug. 11, proposes to add two

SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — The municipal government of Masinloc in this province placed the town under a state of calamity on Monday, Aug. 17. The Sangguniang Bayan approved Resolution No. 217-26 during a special session on Monday, citing the continuing rains brought by the southwest monsoon and successive weather disturbances affecting the province. The resolution

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — Classes at all levels in public and private schools in the Occidental Mindoro towns of Magsaysay and San Jose have been suspended on Tuesday (Aug. 18). The suspensions covers face-to-face classes in all public and private schools in their respective municipalities.  READ: LPA to prolong habagat rains across Luzon, Visayas

MANILA, Philippines — A man was killed while another was wounded in a shooting in Taguig City on Monday morning, police said. The shooting occurred around 5:50 a.m. on Aug. 17 along Pulong Kendi Street in Barangay Santa Ana, according to a police report. It identified the victim who was killed as a 40-year-old family

A ONE Championship Muay Thai fighter was hit by a passenger van while out on a training run along a road in Pathum Thani, preventing him from entering the ring for an upcoming fight on August 21. Sam Khok police were called to the accident scene on the road in Chiang Rak Noi subdistrict, Sam …

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A foreigner lost a tooth and suffered a mouth injury after a Thai homeless man punched him while he was smoking on the roadside in Pattaya on August 6. CCTV footage of the incident has since circulated on Thai social media. The footage timestamp indicates that the incident occurred at around 6.30pm on August 6 …

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