Students of the University of the Philippines (UP) are set to stage a systemwide protest next week to oppose the proposed entry of police and military inside state universities, including UP.
A DISASTROUS mess. That, in a nutshell, is the picture painted by field reports obtained by PCIJ from poll watchdogs National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) and Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) regarding the pilot testing of the Voter Registration Verification Machines (VRVMs) during the May 13, 2019 elections.
THE MAY 2019 elections have been declared to be fraud-free by both election officials and watchdogs, but by all indications, its conduct and process were not entirely fault-free.
A group advocating for the rights of persons with disability (PWD) asked the city council to inspect newly constructed buildings in the city that failed to comply in providing accessibility for PWDs.
Banana industry players reiterate their call to create a Philippine Banana Industry Council and Banana Research and Development Center saying it will benefit local growers and boost the region’s banana industry.
Bayan Muna Party-list rejected the proposal of Interior Secretary Eduardo Año to revive the Anti-Subversion Law, saying it will be “a throwback to Marcosian dictatorship.”
The city government is now in its third sisterhood agreement with the People’s Republic of China for possible potential areas of cooperation.
The “Sibol” (Sprout) exhibit last May 2019 led by renowned Mindanao artist Rey Mudjahid “Kublai” Millan gave three teacher artists an opportunity to blossom in the Manila art scene.
The warehouse of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company’s subsidiary PLDT-Philcom Corporation in Barangay Carmen, this City, was gutted by fire last Tuesday. The warehouse stored assorted supplies and devices for its telecommunications operations which cost more than hundred million pesos.
Investigators have considered the possibility that the fire that consumed a portion of the remaining 5,177 metric tons of mostly plastic trash from South Korea that are stored within the premises of a plastic-recycling facility inside the Phividec Industrial Estate in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental on Monday could be due to spontaneous combustion.
