Category: General

CEBU CITY: Suspended Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama and his entire slate on Thursday filed their certificates of candidacy at the Commission on Elections” Cebu City south district office. Before submitting his COC seeking a fresh mandate, the suspended mayor and his Barug Team Rama attended Mass at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral and held a mini-rally along Mabini Street in front of the church. The president of the Association of Barangay Councils, Kasambagan Barangay Captain Franklyn Ong, also filed his COC as Rama’s running mate. ‘Join me in the quest to stand for the city. Let’s be together to make

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said Thursday he is monitoring the activity of Taal Volcano after the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) logged a minor phreatomagmatic eruption. ‘What we have to do is to monitor the situation and continue to see where are the areas kasi (because) not every situation is the same,’ Marcos told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Pasig City. ‘So how do we adjust? (We identify) where are the areas that need special attention, where are the areas that (are) okay. So ‘yun ‘yung ginagawa namin ngayon (that’s what we are

DHAKA, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will undertake an official visit to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh tomorrow, following an invitation from Chief Advisor of the Interim Government, Dr Muhammad Yunus. In a statement today, Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry, known as Wisma Putra, said the prime minister is scheduled to engage in a bilateral meeting with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to discuss and strengthen diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Bangladesh, fostering ties of friendship between the nations. ‘The Prime Minister is also expected to pay a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin before departing for Kuala Lumpur later that evening,’

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and Pakistan have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the mutually beneficial diplomatic relations that have been established between the two countries since Malaysia gained independence in 1957. According to the Pakistan Press Information Department (PID), Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif agreed on this during their one-on-one meeting held at the Prime Minister’s house (Shehbaz Sharif) today. In a statement posted on the website of Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, it said both leaders discussed a wide range of bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest, including those

ISLAMABAD, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who is on a three-day state visit to Pakistan, was today awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by the country’s National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). NUST is Pakistan’s multi-campus public research university with its main campus located in Islamabad and other campuses throughout the country, providing tertiary education to more than 10,000 undergraduates and post-graduate students. Arriving in Islamabad last night, Anwar took time off from his busy schedule and visited the university to deliver an address titled ‘Echoes of Iqbal: Charting a Future of Renewal and Progress’ to NUST students