HEADLINES: 3 Pinoys dead in attack on Israel | October 12,2023

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BANNER: 3 Pinoys dead in attack on Israel

TWO Filipinos have been confirmed killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict, Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo said Wednesday. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the Philippine Embassy in Israel is verifying reports of the «likely death of a Filipino woman» earlier reported missing in the attack on a farm. The embassy said it would confirm through D.N.A. evidence if the woman is a Filipino. The embassy's labor attaché and welfare officer are «on the ground to assist the sister of the said Filipina in confirming this with the Israel Police,» D.F.A. spokesman Ma. Teresita Daza said in a statement.

Bautista names LTFRB OIC

TRANSPORTATION Secretary Jaime Bautista has appointed Mercy Jane Paras Leynes as officer in charge of the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board, replacing Teofilo Guadiz 3rd, who was suspended as Board chairman by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday over allegations of corruption. The memorandum and special order dated October 10 declared Leynes as the head of L.T.F.R.B. from October 10 of this year until Oct. 9, 2024. Leynes served as chief transportation regulatory officer at the Land Transportation Office and then as a board member of the L.T.F.R.B.

'Times' gets NHCP marker on 125th anniversary

CELEBRATING 125 years in the service of delivering news to Filipinos, The Manila Times unveiled a historical marker installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines on Wednesday. Established by Thomas Gowan on Oct. 11, 1898, The Manila Times was the first daily English-language broadsheet circulating in the country, which served as the bridge between Filipinos and the colonial government of America. While its first market was the American soldiers who were sent to Manila to fight in the Spanish-American war, it later became an instrument for Filipinos and other nationalities in expressing truth and perspectives. Carmina Arevalo, the