Alleged members of a loan shark syndicate were cleared of charges for the kidnapping and serious illegal detention of Singaporean national Wu Yan, 48. Of the 44 foreign nationals– Chinese and Malaysians – charged, 30 were cleared when the Department of Justice ruled on July 20 that there was no probable cause against them. They […]
The Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL, or The Writers Union of the Philippines) celebrated National Literature Month on April 29. The theme of the congress, “Ang Panitikan sa Panahon ng Tokhang (Literature During the Bloody War on Drugs),” featured a keynote lecture by Dr. Jose “Butch” Dalisay Jr., a professor of creative writing […]
Former Philippine Economic Zone Authority director-general Lilia de Lima and Philippine Educational Theater Association are two of six awardees of this year’s prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award. As PEZA’s first director-general, De Lima was tasked to promote and regulate foreign investments in the country’s economic zones in 1995. De Lima was recognized for “her unstinting, sustained […]
Around 200 St. John’s Institute student volunteers in Bacolod City helped pack fortified rice meals for displaced families in Marawi City. In total, 250 boxes were packed, each containing 36 rice meals, which will be sent to Mindanao for the evacuees. SJI student council president Angela Terese Yu said this is how they show their […]
The Abu Sayyaf group executed three of its remaining Vietnamese captives in a Sulu village. Troops recovered the bullet-riddled body of Tran Khac Dung, alias Tran Viet Van, in Buhanginan village, Patikul, Sulu on July 8. The Abu Sayyaf group on July 5 beheaded Vietnamese nationals Hoang Trung Thong and Hoang Va Hai in Barangay […]
Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order pledges its full support to the Anti-kidnapping Group in the nuisance habeas corpus case filed against them by kidnap-murder suspect, former Bulacan mayor and current barangay captain Apolinario Policarpio Marcelo Jr. of Angat. “We at MRPO will give our full support to the AKG officers and help them […]
Homegrown Jollibee fastfood chain now ranks third best among places to go for fried chicken in the United States. Food writer Constantine Spyrou rated only two other fastfood joints higher than Jollibee: Chick-fil-A and Popeye’s. “What makes it stand out beyond the rest, however, is a gravy packed with flavors of onion and celery that […]
The Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc., led by newly elected president Domingo H. Yap, and The Manila Times, led by chairman emeritus Dr. Dante A. Ang and president Dante Francis ‘Klink’ Ang II, discussed a partnership to support FFCCCII’s socio-civic, medical, education causes and economic advocacies. The Tsinoy business federation […]
Police have arrested Apolonio Policarpio Marcelo Jr., ex-mayor and now barangay captain of Angat, Bulacan who allegedly masterminded the kidnapping and murder of a Chinese-Filipino businesswoman and her driver in Sta. Maria, Bulacan last March. The suspect’s alleged cohorts, Ariel Sorospe, Oliver Elfa, Antonio Posos, and one alias Rommel, remain at large. Marcelo was arrested […]
Police have promised to step up patrols and other crime prevention measures in response to reports that petty crimes are rising in Manila’s Binondo district. The Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order, through its founding chairperson Teresita Ang See, received several complaints of rising criminality in Binondo. Ang See immediately brought this to the […]