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A powerful 6.8 magnitude undersea earthquake rocked the Philippines on Friday, Nov. 17, officials said. The quake occurred in the southern Mindanao region at 4:14 p.m. local time. Although initially logged as having a magnitude of 7.2, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) later downgraded the earthquake to 6.8m, local news reported.
For more than two decades, it has been an unlikely flashpoint in the South China Sea: a rusty, World War II-era ship beached on a tiny reef that has become a symbol of Philippine resistance against Beijing.
MANILA, Philippines — A Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) official was suspended yesterday for claiming that Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla was apprehended for using the EDSA Bus Carousel in Mandaluyong yesterday.
COTABATO CITY — A suspected gun-for-hire shot dead a newly-elected barangay councilor in San Isidro town in Davao del Norte in an attack on Tuesday.
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go strongly refuted allegations linking former president Rodrigo Duterte to destabilization plots. He categorically denied these unfounded rumors, calling it 'malicious fake news' whose intent is to sow hatred between the current administration and the previous president.
GOVERNMENT will not allow itself to be provoked by China into retaliating against its harassment of Philippine vessels in the West Philippine Sea in the South China Sea, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — Exiting beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program can still avail themselves of programs for indigent families other than 4Ps, an official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — Over 400 motorists were apprehended and slapped with hefty fines on the first day of the implementation of stiffer penalties for the illegal use of the EDSA busway yesterday, according to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).