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MANILA, Philippines – World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) super bantamweight champion Marlon Tapales is oozing with confidence ahead of his looming unification bout with Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue.
MANILA, Philippines – In-form Kimi Brodeth expects to bump into a set of rivals so pumped up to stop her run as she shoots for another “double” in singles play in the Lapu-Lapu City Juniors Fiesta National Tennis Championships Leg 2, which gets going Friday, October 6, in Cebu City.
Afire at a clothing store in the southern Philippines has killed 17 employees, most of whom were women who were asleep and trapped on the top floor, officials said.The blaze in the three-storey shop in Butuan raged for five hours. Firefighters and police scouring the gutted building found 17 bodies, said city police chief Pedro Obaldo.At least 20 employees, mostly women, were sleeping at the store when the fire broke out, Mr Obaldo said.
All nine people on board a small medical evacuation plane were killed after it crashed into a resort in the Philippines and exploded into flames.The light plane crashed into a resort compound in Pansol village in Laguna province near the foothills of Mount Makiling on Sunday.Rescuers retrieved nine bodies from the wreckage, police said.Two people on the ground were injured and brought to a hospital. Eric Apolonio, a spokesman of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, said the light plane was on a medical evacuation flight from southern Dipolog city in Zamboanga del Norte province.It disappeared from radar for unknown reasons as it flew over Laguna, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) south of the capital, he said.
MANILA, Philippines — Senators leading a probe into an alleged “cult” in Socorro town, Surigao Del Norte lamented the delay in which the Department of Environment and Natural Resources revoked its land agreement with the group despite discovering the area had checkpoints and military training as early as 2019.
The Philippine president said Friday that his country does not want a confrontation but will staunchly defend its waters after its coast guard removed a floating barrier placed by China at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City remains to be the country’s most competitive local government unit (LGU) in the highly urbanized cities (HUC) category of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)’s Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified on Saturday that the PhP3,000 worth of food credits loaded to the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Cards of Food Stamp Program (FSP) beneficiaries are just complementary to their existing sources of income.