This is just an earthquake drill Thursday in Manila, with employees, men and women, of a shopping mall covering their heads along a road, away from the vehicular traffic path—part of a nationwide preparedness exercise following quakes that struck Mindanao last month, with firefighters at the platform of an aerial ladder preparing to enter a window of a building to make a rescue.
A priest blesses different images of the Blessed Virgin Mary during the opening of a Marian exhibit at SM City...
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National Bureau of Investigation head Medardo De Lemos and German Ambassador to the Philippines Andreas Michael Pfaffernoschke sign a Deed...
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The City of Bacoor presents the contestants of the Fashion Day Buntis Congress held at the Strike Gymnasium in Bacoor...
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A sudden heavy downpour forces a couple to step on the bases of a waiting shed’s posts to avoid getting...
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Nine-year-old Mazel Paris ‘Maze’ Alegado, the youngest member of Team Philippines, takes part in the Skateboarding Women’s Park finals of...
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Patrick Tambalque (second from left) holds his medal after securing the overall honors—and a spot in the national finals—in the...
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HANGZHOU, China—Taolu wushu specialist Jones Inso stopped the bleeding for a Team Philippines desperately in need of victories to celebrate...
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The Department of Justice has junked the plea by the leaders and members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI),...
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has certified the Magna Carta for Seafarers bill in Congress as urgent. Senate Majority Leader Joel...
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have forged a partnership to fight vote buying and...
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It is a continuing disaster, as climatologists and analysts tell us. And climate change is endangering humans and natural environments...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.
