1+ week, 1+ day ago   (235+ words) While Filipinos cried to the heavens above, their pleas seemed to fall on deaf ears. There appeared to be no one capable of rescuing them from that carmageddon, the worst so far this year. Marcos’ critics argued that the government…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (121+ words) MANILA, Philippines — Police officers arrested two Most Wanted Persons on August 29 in Pasay City for violating the Anti-Electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994. Operatives from the Pasay City Police Station led by Major Roque Villaruel Jr. and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (553+ words) The Manila Times I watched the news and learned that the suspects in a kidnapping-for-ransom case were apprehended by police officers. However, the ransom money was never recovered or confiscated by the authorities. Can the suspects still be held criminally…...

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3+ week, 3+ day ago   (360+ words) DASMARIÑAS CITY — An alleged high-value individual was arrested during an anti-illegal drug operation on Wednesday after approximately 1.1 kilograms of shabu valued at around P7.48 million were confiscated from his possession. The buy-bust operation was conducted at 2:29 a.m. in Barangay Paliparan…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (177+ words) MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. directed concerned agencies to come up with other measures to mitigate flooding such as the construction of water cisterns that could store floodwaters and be used during the dry season. The President also raised…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (210+ words) BACOLOD CITY — Law enforcement authorities are conducting a manhunt for a middle-aged Bacolod female resident allegedly behind a network of online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (Osaec). Capt. Wilma Silva, chief of the Women and Children Protection Desk–Negros…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (312+ words) ILOILO CITY — A wanted individual from Cavite was arrested in Aklan behind the Police Regional Office-6’s intensified manhunt operations across the region which also resulted in the arrest and surrender of 151 wanted persons during the first half of August....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (317+ words) PUBLIC Works Secretary Vince Dizon inspected the Remedios Pumping Station along Roxas Boulevard on Wednesday as the government stepped up flood control operations amid relentless monsoon rains. Authorities reported that flooding on Araneta Avenue receded faster than in previous years....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (424+ words) (UPDATE) MANILA, Philippines — Floodwaters subsided in several parts of Metro Manila by midnight Tuesday, but deep flooding remained in portions of Quezon City following heavy rains brought by the southwest monsoon, or Habagat. The Metro Manila Council Management Coordinating and…...