Latest in Metro ManilaQuezon City considers itself the green lung of Metro Manila, and with reason. La Mesa watershed alone accounts for nearly one quarter of the city’s total land area, complemented by the expansive UP Diliman campus and Quezon Memorial Circle at its center. This forms a continuous green mass that…
The fundamental reason Metro Manila floods is not engineering failure or government neglect alone — it is that generations of Filipinos built their homes, roads, and commercial centers directly in the valleys, river deltas, and natural drainage paths that nature designed specifically to carry…
Because rainfall impacts in Metro Manila vary drastically from one city to another during the same weather event, blanket class and work suspension announcements from the national government may no longer be the most appropriate response, and local government units or LGUs should be empowered to…
Mindanao’s agriculture is more modern and more productive than Luzon’s, and life on the island is more peaceful, more affordable, and full of more opportunity than Metro Manila, making it the better place to live and work for any Filipino willing to go back, former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel…
Metro Manila has never had a master plan—not 30 years ago, not 50 years ago, and not today—and that absence of vision is at the root of every crisis the capital region now faces, from chronic flooding to gridlock to a garbage problem with no solution in sight, Caloocan City 2nd District…
Metro Manila ranks 103rd in global livability, far behind Bangkok at 93rd and Tokyo at 3rd. Caloocan City 2nd District Representative Edgar “Egay” Erice describred this as a humbling fall for a capital region that in the 1960s was considered one of Asia’s most modern cities and whose country had…
Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso has ordered the inspection of all schools, old buildings, and government structures in the city as part of efforts to strengthen earthquake and disaster preparedness in the nation’s capital. The directive was issued to Manila City Engineer Armando…
The Department of Education (DepEd) is sending teachers on house-to-house visits to encourage parents to enroll their children ahead of the opening of classes on June 8, as nationwide enrollment figures dipped slightly from previous years. DepEd Assistant Secretary Joyce Andaya, who also serves as…
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has hit a record-low net satisfaction rating of -15 in the First Quarter 2026 Social Weather Stations survey conducted March 24-31, 2026—his worst since taking office in June 2022, when he started at +63. The rating marks a sharp decline from -3 in November 2025 and…
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is ensuring Filipino rice farmers have a steady and guaranteed market by requiring local government units to source the supply of his administration’s free rice program directly from local producers, bypassing traders and middlemen under the government’s Sagip…
Ilocos Norte Vice Governor Matthew Marcos Manotoc disclosed Monday, May 4, that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. personally praised Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso during a meeting the day before. According to the Ilocos Norte Vice Governor, the President described the Mayor as…
The food that reaches a Filipino consumer’s table has passed through as many as seven to eight hands before getting there, and each transfer comes with a markup—a problem deeply embedded in how Philippine agriculture works, and one that an economist says is compounding the damage of the current…
Low-income households in Metro Manila could see their savings erased even under a conservative 5 percent inflation scenario driven by the ongoing oil crisis, an economist warned. University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) School of Economics Dean Dr. Peter Lee U put the numbers plainly during a…
Metro Manila fell below the national growth rate in 2025, posting a gross regional domestic product expansion of 4.35 percent against the country’s 4.4 percent, even as the region continued to lead the Philippine services sector with the largest share at 40.9 percent, data from the Philippine…
Thousands of transport workers who were left out of the government’s cash assistance list will still receive their ₱5,000 cash aid through a special payout to be held after the Holy Week break, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Saturday, March 29. In an interview on DZRH…
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