BIG LOCAL and foreign conglomerates are taking a closer look at a massive railway line linking key cities in Mindanao, a “high priority” project of the Duterte administration, despite scant details released so far. Top officials of…
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – The Bureau of Customs seized, on Wednesday, five container vans containing imported luxury vehicles and spoiled pork meat inside the Mindanao Container Terminal in nearby Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. Alvin Enciso, chief…
Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa will teach Vhon Martin Tanto, the man who shot dead a biker after losing in a fistfight, how to throw a punch properly when the toughie…
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will start constructing next year a total of 20 pumping stations once the World Bank (WB) approves a loan for the P22-billion project that is seen to alleviate recurring floods in…
The Department of Transportation is now accepting unsolicited proposals for ambitious new railway projects, including a so-called Mindanao rail project. DOTr spokesperson Cherie Mercado told reporters in a briefing Tuesday that new rail and mass transit projects,…
A transportation group expressed support for the Duterte administration’s plan to revive the country’s cargo railway industry, which will help ease road congestion in Metro Manila and other urban centers. Michael Salalima, executive director at the Transport…
The police and the Army are looking for Vhon Tanto, allegedly the pistol-packing motorist who shot a man dead after engaging him in a fistfight Monday night in Quiapo, Manila. The Manila Police District (MPD) identified Tanto,…
Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday vowed to fast-track the passage of a measure that would grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers to address the traffic problem in the country that she said has already “paralyzed our economy…
Manuel V. Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. finally bagged an elevated “connector road” expressway project that will link the northern and southern portions of Metro Manila following delays that spanned an entire administration, a government official said.…
A SUPERBODY under the direct supervision of President Duterte is one of the responses of his administration to the road and air traffic congestion in Metro Manila and Cebu province that it says has become a “national…
