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Marcos: 3-day maritime, air rounds to boost regional security President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday declared the beginning of joint maritime and air patrols between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the United States Indo-Pacific Command in the West Philippine Sea. In a post on the social media platform X, President Marcos said the […]
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Tacloban City—More than 35,000 people were brought to safer ground as floodwaters engulfed large areas in Northern and Eastern Samar Tuesday, after a shear line–an area where cold and warm air meet—dumped six weeks’ worth of rain in the Eastern Visayas region. Northern Samar Gov. Edwin Ongchuan suspended classes in the province from Nov. 20 […]
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Jacket and sweater weather is finally here, the state weather bureau declared Tuesday, as temperatures dipped to a low 11.3 degrees Celsius station at the Benguet State University in La Trinidad, Benguet yesterday morning. That was the country’s coldest recorded temperature in the “amihan” or northeast monsoon season so far, said the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical […]
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Some 9.8 percent of Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger—being hungry and not having anything to eat – at least once in the past three months, the latest Social Weather Stations survey showed. While the national average was better than the 10.4 percent reported in June, involuntary hunger in Metro Manila went up to 17.3 percent […]
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By Rio N. Araja and Maricel V. Cruz Transport group Manibela will pick up where the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston) will leave off, declaring its own three-day nationwide strike starting today until Nov. 24 to oppose the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). Piston’s members are not joining Manibela’s […]
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Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. on Tuesday threatened to cancel import permits that are not used within a month to buy an additional one million tons of rice to boost local stocks as price increases in the food staple have been noted in public markets. In a TV Patrol report, Bantay Bigas said the […]
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Speaker Martin Romualdez administers the oath of membership to Lakas-CMD party to Reps. Rosemarie Conejos Panotes, Dale B. Corvera, Lordan G. Suan, and Mary Mitzi Cajayon-Uy in Quezon City on Tuesday. Witnessing are Majority Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe ...

The municipality of Glan in Sarangani was placed under a state of calamity following last week’s magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Mindanao. Glan accounted for over half of the earthquake’s death toll, with five out of the nine fatalities recorded. The declaration will allow the release of calamity funds allocated to the local government and control […]
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