Pontiff meets Yolanda victims today
TACLOBAN CITY—Despite the threat of a stormy weekend and tight security, thousands of pilgrims have started to arrive in the cities of Palo and Tacloban...
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‘Pray storm won’t hit Tacloban’
TACLOBAN CITY—Palo Archbishop John Du asked the Catholic faithful to recite an oratio imperata, or obligatory prayer, for fair weather after the weather bureau warned...
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The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) on Tuesday said satellite images showed new traces of oil slick in Verde Island Passage,...
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The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines is anticipating two million air travelers going to and from various provinces starting...
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The “Empowering Voices” special series featured tenured female legislators from different regions of the Philippines, including the National Capital Region,...
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Although several hundred miles away from the country’s capital, the regions in Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao Region,...
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Nerves are rising yet again in East Asia after North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast...
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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.