Marcos signs law creating new DPWH engineering office
MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos has signed a law creating a new engineering office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Zamboanga City.
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Public reminded of April 15 e-bike ban
MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Manila city government yesterday reminded users of electric bicycles (e-bikes) and tricycles (e-trikes), pushcarts, pedicabs, kuliglig and other light electric vehicles that they are banned from using certain major roads starting next week.
Marijuana courier dies in General Santos road accident
COTABATO CITY— A motorcycle-riding courier out to deliver some P20,000 worth of his illegal merchandise died in a road accident in Barangay Calumpang in General Santos City before dawn Friday.
MMDA to allow 24-hour road works by DPWH until April 11
MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced road reblocking and repairs by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) until next week.
2 dead in 7-vehicle smashup
BOCAUE, Bulacan, Philippines — A couple died when a truck sideswiped their tricycle in a seven-vehicle smash-up in this town on Monday.
Merchant killed in Maguindanao del Sur ambush
COTABATO CITY— A businessman was shot dead in a busy stretch of the Cotabato-Davao Highway in Barangay Galakit in Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur on Tuesday morning.
Barangay chiefs confirm Chocolate Hills’ destruction in 1990s
CARMEN, Bohol, Philippines — Two barangay captains confirmed the destruction of Chocolate Hills in two locations here in the late 1990s.
CLLEx right-of-way row resolved; project to resume Q2 — Zambales guv
IBA, Zambales — The Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEx), which has faced long delays due to right-of-way claims, got a new lease in life after a dialogue between project officials and landowners affected by the project resolved problems besetting the government project.