Deaths reach 957, hundreds still missing Tropical storm “Sendong” (international name Washi) is the world’s deadliest storm this year, latest data shows. The storm, which struck Northern Mindanao, the Visayas, and Palawan over the weekend, has now killed at least 957 people, the country’s disaster management chief said Tuesday morning. National Disaster Risk Reduction and [...]
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MANILA, Philippines – A new school year began on Monday for millions of students across the country, many of them returning to face the same old problems: cramped classrooms, too few teachers, and not enough supplies. At the Batasan Hills National High School (BHNHS) in Quezon City, around 13,000 students use 72 classrooms. With such [...]
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MANILA, Philippines – Typhoon Chedeng (international name: Songda) will become stronger as it nears the Philippines, U.S. military weather forecasters warned on Wednesday. The typhoon is already packing maximum sustained winds of 150 kilometers near the center and gustiness of up to 185 kph, according to weather bureau PAGASA, in its 11 p.m. tropical cyclone [...]
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Leviste back in Bilibid MANILA, Philippines – Former Batangas governor Antonio Leviste was finally brought back to the New Bilibid Prison on Thursday, a day after he was arrested by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents in Makati for an unauthorized furlough outside prison. Leviste was seen smiling as he was being escorted back to prison. [...]
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MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Leila de Lima may be among Malacanang’s top picks for the position of Ombudsman, but the justice chief has formally declined her nomination. De Lima transmitted a formal notice to the secretariat of the Judicial and Bar Council(JBC) Friday morning declining the nomination made by Assistant State Prosecutor Romeo Senson [...]
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MANILA, Philippines – Eighteen-year-old actor and model AJ Perez was killed in a highway accident in Tarlac early Sunday morning, according to a report by radio dzMM. Police said Perez was with his father and 4 others aboard an ABS-CBN van that collided with a Partas provincial passenger bus along McArthur Highway in Barangay San [...]
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