Fear, defiance for kin of drug war dead
Six years after four policemen burst into her Manila slum shack and shot dead her husband and teenage son, Mary Ann Bonifacio fears for her...
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Marawi walls tell of long, urban war
MARAWI—At first glance, the endless rows of devastated buildings could be the aftermath of a great earthquake. But the punctured, bullet-riddled walls tell the true...
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Typhoon survivors get bleak Christmas
CALUMPIT, BULACAN—Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in...
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THE National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) on Monday asked the Department of Energy to step in to prevent...
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The Land Transportation Office said it will go on heightened alert status starting March 31, Friday until April 10, including...
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Newly-appointed Bureau of Corrections chief Gregorio Catapang Jr. said he will reshuffle all personnel in the agency’s prisons and penal...
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Many are hoping that before much longer, even while security authorities have their eyes on the angle of terrorism in...
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Santa Banana, with the refusal of Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. to comply with the House of Representatives’ ultimatum...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.