Consumer groups belonging to #StrikeTheHike Network will hold a week-long protest against the plan to increase the fare of the Metro South Commuter Line of the Philippine National Railway (PNR) from P10 to P15 starting Tuesday.
The local government of Tagum City awarded seven individuals and an organization with the “Tagumpay Excellence Awards."
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has already come up with a back-up plan should the Commission on Audit disallow him to give P1 million from the government fund to the families of the 44 Special Action Force commandos killed in the Mamasapano encounter on January 25.
Some 3086 family-survivors of Typhoon Pablo in Compostela Valley received their Certificate of Occupancy as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Provincial Government of Compostela Valley conducted the third turnover of permanent shelters on Thursday.
Hundreds of urban poor held a noise barrage protest outside the ancestral house of President Benigno Aquino, III on Sunday in West Triangle, Quezon City following the growing cases of fire incidents in Metro Manila which the group blamed to the government's failure to provide basic social services.