The Daily Manila Shimbun

 

100 female soldiers, police to be sent to Marawi for rehabilitation efforts

August 22, 2017

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) will send 100   female personnel to support rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery of Marawi City. “An all-female group comprised of (40) enlisted personnel from the Armed Forces

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Dominguez confident on Lapena as incoming Customs chief

August 22, 2017

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III expressed confidence on incoming Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Isidro Lapena. In a forum with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) in Manila, Domingo said the change in the BOC would just be

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Classes start in Mindanao State University

August 22, 2017

Mindanao State University opened its campus and held classes Tuesday in Marawi despite a harassment against a military detachment in Marantao, Lanao del Sur early  in the day. “Opening of classes starts today. Students in buses will be moving from

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Mile Long tenants have option to stay, but rates to go up, DOF chief says

August 22, 2017

Tenants of government-owned Mile Long property in Makati City could stay but they have to pay higher rates, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said on Tuesday. Dominguez said the government will send letters to the 240 tenants of Mile Long

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Dela Rosa says war on drugs to continue despite Caloocan death

August 22, 2017

The Philippine National Police said its war on drugs will continue despite the furor created by the death of a 17-year-old boy in an operation last week in Caloocan City. “We are not lying low,” said PNP Director General Ronald

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Post-earthquake rehab in Bohol, Cebu 90 percent complete : DILG

August 22, 2017

Post-earthquake rehabilitation in the provinces of Bohol and Cebu is now 90% complete, according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Tuesday. DILG Undersecretary for Local Government Austere Panadero said thousands of Boholanos and Cebuanos are

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Turnover ceremony for Japan-funded training center in Naujan held

August 22, 2017

A turnover ceremony for  a project for the construction of training center for the Mangyans in Mindoro was held on August 15 in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, the Embassy of Japan said in a statement Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by Benjamin Abadiano, president,

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Duterte says China assured him no construction on sandbar off Pagasa Island

August 21, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday night China made an assurance they would not construct anything on a sandbar, which is part of the Pagasa Island occupied by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea. “China assured me that they will

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