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Mandaue eyes financial aid for Sitio Marna families as relocation site remains unavailable

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The Mandaue City Government is considering providing financial assistance to qualified residents displaced by the demolition in Sitio Marna, Barangay Subangdaku, as it has no available relocation site. City Councilor Atty. Carlo Fortuna said city officials earlier met with Mayor Thadeo “Jonkie” Ouano to discuss the situation in Sitio Marna, with

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Defense objects to use of Waray in Sara Duterte impeachment trial

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A brief exchange over the use of language marked the fourth day of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial on Monday, July 13. A member of the House prosecution panel, lawyer Amando Virgil Ligutan, briefly began conversing with a resource person in Waray, prompting an objection from one of Duterte’s defense

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Add pickleball to Mandaue City school sports, grassroots, Council asks

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Pickleball is being pushed for inclusion in school sports programs and grassroots sports development in Mandaue City through two resolutions the City Council passed during its session on Monday, July 13. Both resolutions, served up by City Councilor Carlo Fortuna, seek to promote pickleball by encouraging the Department of Education (DepEd)

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Lava effusion recorded in Mayon as volcano enters 189th day of unrest

MANILA, Philippines — A lava effusion with minor Strombolian activity was recorded at the Mayon Volcano between 5:17 p.m. and 5:26 p.m. on Monday, July 13, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The said volcanic activity occurred less than two hours after the short-lived lava fountaining that was observed at the volcano’s

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Baguio begins dry run of P10-M smart traffic signals to ease gridlocks

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The Baguio City government is undertaking a dry run of newly installed smart traffic signal lights at three major intersections in the city’s central business district to ease occasionally gridlocked roads.  Part of a P10-million traffic management project, the initial tests cover the U-shaped pedestrian overpass, the Y-shaped overpass, and Lower

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Bam Aquino: If lawyers say there’s no hitman, was Sara Duterte lying?

MANILA, Philippines — If Vice President Sara Duterte’s lawyers deny that she contracted an assassin to kill ranking government officials, does this mean that her statements during a November 2024 online press briefing were mere lies? This was the question posed by Senator-judge Bam Aquino during the resumption of the impeachment trial on Monday, after asking

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