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2 weeks ago | 
newsinfo.inquirer.net | Frances Mangosing |Gillian N. Villanueva
MANILA, Philippines — Newly installed Philippine National Police chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III on Monday assured the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that including the number of arrests as a means of assessing the performance of police officers will not lead to abuses. Speaking as the guest of honor at the CHR’s flag-raising ceremony in Quezon City, Torre said he decided to pay a visit to the agency to explain his recent remarks in a press briefing on the day of his appointment as PNP chief.
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2 months ago | 
newsinfo.inquirer.net | Frances Mangosing |Gillian N. Villanueva
MANILA, Philippines — The Quezon City government on Monday advised residents, especially those with respiratory illnesses, to mask up when going out due to the poor air quality index monitored in some parts. Susano Road, Maligaya Elementary School, Kaligayahan Elementary School, Lagro High School and Road Payatas controlled disposal facility were identified by the city government as having “very unhealthy” air quality.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva |Jordeene B. Lagare
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Monday said that it required mining companies to integrate the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations into their social development and management programs (SDMPs).
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
The Philippines, which uses 163 million plastic sachets daily, is stepping up its efforts to tackle this plastic crisis by launching the Philippine National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP), which aims to foster collaboration between various stakeholders. These include the private sector, civil society and development partners that will be part of an NPAP “steering board,” with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) serving as its chair.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
newsinfo.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit Southern Leyte on Thursday morning followed by a magnitude 5.4 quake in Zamboanga del Norte, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit Southern Leyte on Thursday morning followed by a magnitude 5.4 quake in Zamboanga del Norte, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. Phivolcs said the quake in Southern Leyte was recorded 6 kilometers off the municipality of San Francisco in Panaon Island with a depth of 11 km.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
A total of 18 foreigners, 11 of them Chinese and the rest Vietnamese, were arrested last week in Parañaque City for scamming activities. The National Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday that its agents conducted an operation on Jan. 15 at Multinational Village in Parañaque, which led to the arrest of seven Vietnamese and three Chinese nationals. They were found to be engaged in various scamming activities, such as investment fraud, cryptocurrency scam and artificial intelligence scam.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
Metro, News, Only on INQ Plus Members of a fisher’s group held a protest on Monday to criticize the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for the delayed release of a study it commissioned on the impacts of reclamation projects in Manila Bay. According to the Pambansang Lakas nag Kilusang Mamamalakaya nag Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), the DENR in 2023 commissioned the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP MSI) “to conduct a comprehensive study on the cumulative...
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva |Dexter Cabalza
WASHINGTON—On his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and from the World Health Organization (WHO)—an executive action he made during his first term but which his successor, Joe Biden, reversed. Trump’s move taking back the United States’ commitment to the Paris climate accord is seen as a defiant rejection of global efforts to combat planetary warming as catastrophic weather events intensify worldwide.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
plus.inquirer.net | Gillian N. Villanueva
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation have arrested a Chinese national and a Filipino in two separate entrapment operations for sexually exploiting women. In a statement on Tuesday, the NBI said that agents of its Naga District Office arrested Marjohn Lanera Boragay, also known as “Baks” or “Bella,” at an apartelle in Naga, Camarines Sur, on Jan. 14 after placing him under surveillance. They caught Boragay in the act of trading 10 women, two of them minors, for sexual exploitation.
