San Juan City Mayor Francis M. Zamora hands money to elderly women as he leads the first batch of payouts of the ECQ Cash Assistance or ‘ayuda’ at Brgy St. Joseph in San Juan City on Thursday, while a Taguig City worker counts thousand-peso bills for a senior recipient at the Tipas Elementary School in Barangay Ligid Tipas as former House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano oversee the distribution (photo below).
Speaker Martin Romualdez and Ateneo De Manila University president Dr. Roberto Yap seal a memorandum of agreement for a Research...
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The Manila Metropolitan Development Authority’s Task Force Special Operations, the Manila Police District, and the Department of Interior and Local...
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Bureau of Customs (BOC) agents intercepted a parcel with shabu with an estimated street value of P1.743 million at the...
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Newly-appointed Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rex Gatchailan on Tuesday recently went to the DSWD’s Reception and Study...
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Union Bank of the Philippines concludes its P12-billion stock rights offering with the listing of its shares at the Philippine...
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Executives of the Araneta Group and Binibining Pilipinas 2022 queens lead the ceremonial first concrete pouring at Cyberpark 3 on...
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Geneva—Up to 23 million people could be affected by the massive earthquake that has killed thousands in Turkey and Syria,...
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Speaker Martin Romualdez on Tuesday urged “profit-hungry traders” manipulating or hoarding the supply and prices of agricultural products, particularly onions...
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Inflation rose to its highest level in more than 14 years and showed no sign of easing in January, rising...
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At least P88 has been eroded from the P570 minimum wage in Metro Manila due to the continuous rise in...
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The Philippines has confirmed its first case of the coronavirus omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, which experts said causes the most transmissible...
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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.
