METRO Manila’s traffic woes can’t be solved overnight, but possibly within two to three years, according to a “Marshall-like” solution being offered to presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte by Filipino consortium Philtrak Inc. Francis Yuseco Jr., who heads…
THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry is set to review the terms of reference for the procurement of services from a third party laboratory, which will conduct full vehicle tests on the Montero model produced by Japanese…
In a project dubbed “Na-HuliCam Ka Ba? (Were you caught on camera?),” the agency will make the information available online via a Google spreadsheet document starting May 3. The uneditable document contains the updated list of no-contact…
After a long delay, the P69.3-billion Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT 7), which will connect Quezon City to Bulacan province, finally broke ground on Wednesday. “These kinds of projects are not like candies you can buy…
WASHINGTON, United States — A diplomatic convoy in Cameroon carrying the visiting US ambassador to the United Nations accidentally struck and killed a young boy on Monday. Samantha Power is in Cameroon with officials from USAID, the…
Within eight hours, more than 200 vehicles were tagged on camera for traffic violations under the “no-contact” apprehension policy relaunched on Friday by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Most of the early violations were for obstruction,…
Seven car thefts, seven robberies, three rapes and three homicides—including a gruesome death that recently shocked the local music industry. The police are pinning all these on Nitro Agustin Ison, a stocky 24-year-old with blond-streaked hair, who…
“Huli ka (Gotcha)! You’re on CCTV camera.” It’s the tagline used by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to underscore the relaunch today of the “no-contact” apprehension policy, wherein hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras will be used…
HANDS down, or faces palmed, the transportation department of this country is a mess, if we base it solely on the innumerable rants from netizens on social media and traditional media consumers who have had to deal…
MALAYSIAN conglomerate MTD Group is considering challenging the Philippine infrastructure unit of Hong Kong’s First Pacific Co. Ltd. for the right to build an elevated connector road project linking the North Luzon Expressway and South Luzon Expressway.…
