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MANILA, Philippines — The Marcos administration has earmarked P705 million to provide sustainable and active mobility in the country’s overall transportation system via the Active Transport Bike Share System and Safe Pathways Program.
MANILA, Philippines — Maynilad Water Services Inc. yesterday clarified that the notice of disconnection only covers customers with overdue accounts over the past two months after netizens received a text message that it would implement service cuts starting Oct. 1.
MANILA, Philippines — The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) issued a public alert after glitches were discovered in messaging platform Viber, resulting in failed attempts to send video and file transfers among users.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 26) — The Land Transportation Office (LTO) said on Tuesday that it would take two years before it can clear the backlog for motorcycle license plates.
MANILA, Philippines – Hundreds of students from Tondo, Manila who served as player escorts during the FIBA World Cup were honored during a ceremony that also marked the fourth year of San Miguel Corporation’s Better World Community Center, a food bank and learning institution that caters to over 500 families in the area.
The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea and which Beijing said on Thursday should be viewed rationally and objectively. China released the map on Monday of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90% of the South China Sea, a source of many of the disputes in one of the world's most contested waterways, where more than $3 trillion of trade passes each year. The Philippines called on China on Thursday "to act responsibly and abide by its obligations" under international law and a 2016 arbitral ruling that had declared the line had no legal grounds. Malaysia said it had filed a diplomatic protest over the map.
Authorities in the Philippines are investigating an airport security officer who was caught on video swallowing $300 in bills allegedly stolen from a departing Chinese passenger. According to CNN Philippines, the incident took place in Terminal 1 of Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport on September 8. The Office for Transportation Security (OTS) posted a statement about the incident on its Facebook page on Tuesday. It said that the identity of the security officer involved has been established and the gathering of evidence is already ongoing.
An angry Rodrigo Duterte summoned them to Malacañang during his presidency, although he did not carry out his threat to make them eat paper rolled up like pastillas or local milk pastry. Last week, one of 50 Bureau of Immigration employees accused of facilitating the entry of 143 foreigners, mostly Chinese, between 2017 and 2020 was fined the princely sum of P5,000 by the Sandiganbayan.