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January 6 – Importer Lilia Cruz also known as Leah Cruz, Bureau of Plant Industry Director Clarito Barron, and 119 other persons are charged by the National Bureau of Investigation of direct bribery and violation of the Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act at the Office of the Ombudsman in connection with the alleged garlic cartel last year.
In early August 2023, a series of wildfires broke out in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui.The wind-driven fires prompted evacuations and caused widespread damage, killing at least 102 people and leaving two persons missing in the town of Lahaina on Maui's northwest coast.
An electrical fire razed the Star City amusement park and the adjacent Manila Broadcasting Company building in Pasay. [128] 21-23 May 2023 - The Manila Central Post Office was gutted by a fire that started from a leaking car battery. [129] 31 August 2023 - A fire at a house doubling as a t-shirt factory in Quezon City killed 15. [130]
The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company has been lauded for preserving many of the various traditional folk dances found throughout the Philippines. They are famed for their iconic performances of Philippine dances such as the tinikling and singkil that both feature clashing bamboo poles. [44]
The Philippines was a Commonwealth of the United States, a country known for its cultural pride of gun ownership and gun rights. Since the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, the U.S. allowed gun ownership and gun rights among the Filipino populace, with some exceptions. Gun control was a small issue in the Philippines.
The Philippine defense continued until the final surrender of U.S.-Philippine forces on the Bataan Peninsula on April 10, 1942, and on Corregidor on May 6, 1942. [10] Quezon and Osmeña had accompanied the troops to Corregidor and later left for the United States, where they set up a government-in-exile . [ 11 ]
Six fishermen are killed and one is critically injured after a boat's engine exploded and caught the wooden hull on fire off the coast of Naga in the Philippines. (AP) One person is killed and more than 100 others are injured after two trams collide in Kemerovo , Russia .
Bureau of Fire Protection National headquarters along Senator Miriam P. Defensor-Santiago Avenue (formerly Agham Road) in Quezon City. The BFP was formed from the units of the Integrated National Police's Office of Fire Protection Service on January 29, 1991 through Republic Act No. 6975, which created the present Interior Department and placed the provision of fire services under its control.