A “powerhouse wedding” was how Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño described the renewal of marriage vows of Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla” and Cavite Rep. Lani Mercado yesterday afternoon in Pasay City. “I hope they serve as an inspiration to us all. They’re a great couple both in politics and in show biz,” said Casiño, who [...] ...

A warehouse that served as a garage of carnapped vehicles was pinned down yesterday in Taguig City after one of the stolen trucks kept there had a tracking device that gave away the location to the police. A 10-wheeler truck was found in Anlud Metal Recycling Corp. on Daang Manunuso St., Barangay (village) Tipas, Taguig [...] ...

The floodwatch monitoring arm of Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) reported slight floods hitting some areas due to yesterday’s downpour caused by the southwest monsoon and which beset Metro Manila. The floods recorded in some streets in the northern part of Metro subsided before noon but the rain dumped on southern metro did not result [...] ...

Due to the preference of witness Alfred Mendiola to leave the safehouse, the Witness Protection Security and Benefit Program has asked a Quezon City court to relieve it of responsibilities on his security. In a two-page manifestation and motion, the WPSBP sought a court order noting that Mendiola, one of the accused in the Venson [...] ...

DIONISIO Batalla Valbuena could only sympathize with the younger generation of weather forecasters in the predicament they figure in every year as the public’s whipping boys for “erratic” typhoon advisories. As early as some seven decades ago, people pinned the blame on him whenever a raging storm ravaged town without warning from him, recalled Dionisio, [...] ...

A REAL ESTATE development project in Quezon City has apparently gotten local officials of three cities in Metro Manila and four Rizal towns worried. Armed with photographs, Marikina City officials have claimed that the project, Circulo Verde, had encroached on a portion of Marikina River and which could have an adverse effect on flooding in [...] ...

MANILA, Philippines—Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) rounded up at noon yesterday eight foreign nationals suspected of being involved in cyber crimes at a house in a posh village in Pasig City. Carrying a search warrant,  NBI National Capital Region agents swooped down on the house on Coconut Street  inside  Valle Verde IV [...] ...