SPECIAL REPORT: By the time PAGASA sounded the alarm, Manila’s students were already in schools
A closer look at why the rainfall warning came late, and why classes couldn’t have been suspended sooner There were no rainfall warnings hanging over Metro Manila in the early hours of Wednesday, September 9, even as clouds gathered thick and low across the region overnight. Then, without a single…
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SPECIAL REPORT: By the time PAGASA sounded the alarm, Manila’s students were already in schools
A closer look at why the rainfall warning came late, and why classes couldn’t have been suspended sooner There were no rainfall warnings hanging over Metro Manila in the early hours of Wednesday, September 9, even as clouds gathered thick and low across the region overnight. Then, without a single…
SPECIAL REPORT: Laguna Lake on the verge of becoming the Philippines’ largest septic tank
The Laguna Lake is fast deteriorating into the country’s “biggest septic tank,” Biñan City Rep. Walfredo “Arman” Dimaguila Jr. warned on Saturday, August 2. In an interview on DZRH News’ Special on Saturday, Rep. Dimaguila urged the Marcos Jr. administration to take urgent and science-based action…
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The government wants higher sugar drink taxes and food reformulation, says Filipino food can still taste good with less sugar
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