A SUDDEN downpour on Monday night flooded some parts of Metro Manila, causing traffic jams and stranding passengers rushing home. At past 8 p.m., the state weather agency said a thunderstorm was affecting Metro Manila particularly in Quezon City, Paranaque,…
FROM conducting rescue training for barangay officials to unclogging waterways, everything possible has been done by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to prepare for the coming of the rainy season. “We believe that we are already…
As the rainy season sets in, the foul-smelling floodwaters that have plagued residents and commuters in Mandaluyong City’s Maysilo Circle since 2013 are back. This is despite the promises made in February by the Department of Public…
A REHABILITATED flood control and early warning project which can alert Metro Manila residents to rising levels in waterways will be turned over today to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Funded by the Japan International Cooperation…
A TOTAL of 21 truckloads of garbage—consisting of car spare parts, silt, plastic containers, styrofoam and cable wires—were collected from the Antipolo open canal in Sta. Cruz and Estero de Kabulusan in Tondo, both in Manila, on…
[View the story “IN PHOTOS: Busted Maynilad pipe causes flooding in Manila” on Storify] A damaged pipe of the Maynilad Water Services Inc. has caused flooding in some areas in Sta. Mesa, Manila according to a Radyo…
Businessmen and homeowners who have been inconvenienced over the last two years by stagnant waters blamed on an ongoing flood-control project in Mandaluyong City will have a chance Thursday to air their concerns and be updated on…
OVER the last several months, the eatery on Maysilo Circle in Mandaluyong City where Gloria Fuentes works has seen fewer customers coming in for a meal. According to Fuentes, the decline has nothing to do with their…
FROM being a fitness instrument, the walk-o-meter app gave Leonard Postrado a measurement of his misery Tuesday night. It took Postrado about “16,000 steps”—or 60 percent more than usual—to get home from Manila to Taytay, Rizal province,…
Expect flooding in some portions of Metro Manila and its nearby provinces as the state weather bureau raised yellow warning level in the said areas on Sunday morning. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said…
