Category: General

MANILA: There is no basis for Beijing to warn Manila that the United States’ deployment of the “Typhon” mid-range missile system to the Philippines would lead to an arms race, Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo said Tuesday. In a joint press conference following the 2+2 Foreign and Defense Ministerial meeting with Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III, Manalo clarified that the system was not meant for any ‘offensive purpose’. ‘All I can really say is that first, these missiles are meant for our own defensive capabilities, our own

BACOLOD: The Philippine Army’s 79th Infantry Battalion (IB) continues to conduct operations to locate more weapons hidden by the New People’s Army (NPA) after the discovery of firearms in two areas in northern Negros in the past two weeks. ‘The intention is to recover the loose firearms of the dismantled Northern Negros Front (NNF) to prevent further use of these weapons to harass the community or create violence,’ First Lt. Dan Carlo Samoza, 79IB civil-military operations officer, said in an interview on Tuesday. On Monday, troops found high-powered firearms buried in a secluded area in Barangay Pinowayan, Don Salvador Benedicto,

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA: The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has completed the payout of PHP20.57 million for the 2,289 beneficiaries of the Risk Resiliency Program (RRP) in Antique. The payout covered expansion sites in the five municipalities of the province, according to Armil Gayorgor, DSWD Project Development Officer II and RRP in-charge in the form of the Local Adaptation to Water Access and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished, in an interview Tuesday. The payout consisted of PHP2.7 million for 301 beneficiaries in Barbaza, PHP1.57 million for 175 beneficiaries in Sebaste, PHP2.95 million for 328

MANILA: Mary Rose Frias of Pangasinan province delivered the first gold medal in the Philippine Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Games Luzon leg after ruling the women’s 1,500m run at the Cavite State University (CvSU) track oval in Indang town on Tuesday. The 19-year-old clocked 5:07.2 to beat teammate Mary Ann Delos Reyes (5:30.3) and Jeralyn Madamecilla of Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (6:19.0). ‘I arrived only last July 28 after competing at the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Games in Legazpi, Albay. I wasn’t sure if I would come because of the typhoon,” said Frias, a

DUMAGUETE: Three teenage girls from this capital are playing for the Philippine team in the prestigious youth football Norway Cup in Oslo, Norway. They are Zara Gabriella Danieles, 16, Kelsy Anub, 15, and Alexis Abestano, 16, all members of the local youth football club here, the Football Kings United (FKU). The three FKU booters were drafted to join the LAOS (Leyte Organization of Organized Sports) Football Club (FC), which is representing the Philippines in the Norway Cup -the largest international youth tournament in the world- from July 27 to Aug. 3. The FKU, in a media release on Tuesday, said