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The Philippine Department of Health reports its first case of mpox this year in a patient with no international travel history. (GMA Network) Health officials in Tainan City, Taiwan, report that they have confirmed three cases of mpox so far this year. (TVBS Taiwan) Law and crime
The Manor Hotel fire was a fire at the Manor Hotel in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on August 18, 2001. With a death toll of 74, it is considered to be the second worst structural fire in Philippine history, tied with the 2015 Kentex slipper factory fire and only behind the Ozone Disco fire in 1996.
Automatic weapons fire / Grenade: A vehicle carrying rubber plantation workers was ambushed by Abu Sayyaf militants. [120] 10 October Cagayan de Oro: 2 2 Improvised Explosive Device A bomb detonated outside a hotel. A second explosive was found underneath a parked news vehicle. [121]
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Interyor at Pamahalaang Lokal), abbreviated as DILG, is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for promoting peace and order, ensuring public safety and strengthening local government capability aimed towards the effective delivery of basic services to the citizenry.
Philippine National Police boat on the Iloilo River, Iloilo City Maritime Group (MG) – responsible for performing all police functions over Philippine territorial waters, lakes, and rivers and along coastal areas, including ports, harbors, and small islands for the security and the safety of the maritime environment. [37]
Laguna Copperplate Inscription (c. 900 AD) The region of Tondo has been settled by humans for over 1,100 years. Historically, Tondo already existed in the year 900 AD according to the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, [6] a legal document that is the earliest document in the Philippines, written in Kawi script now housed in the National Museum of Anthropology.
The province is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines with an area of only 251,778 hectares (622,160 acres), or about 0.8% of the total Philippine land area. [2] As of 1995, the population of the Ifugaos was counted to be 131,635.
Anna Lee Fisher (born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician and former NASA astronaut who was the first mother to fly in space. Fisher became an astronaut candidate with NASA Astronaut Group 8 and joined the Astronaut Office for the development of the Canadarm and the testing of payload bay door contingency spacewalk procedures.