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By virtue of Executive Order No. 226, 117 became the official national emergency telephone number of the Philippines on July 14, 2003. [ 7 ] The ₱ 1.4 billion project was completed on August 2, 2003, with the opening of a new 117 call center in Quezon City , serving the entire Metro Manila area. [ 2 ]
Programs previously aired by the Radio Philippines Network and RPTV broadcasts a variety of programming through its VHF terrestrial television station RPN TV-9 Manila. This article also includes shows previously aired by RPN as itself, and other previous incarnations.
Tobacco packaging warning messages on cigarette packs sold in the Philippines prior to March 2016 Graphic warnings from 2016 to 2018 A new warning. All cigarette packaging sold in the Philippines are required to display a government warning label. The warnings include: Government Warning: Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.
GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.S. envoy told Reuters that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's team should stay active at the United Nations Human Rights Council, partly to counter what she described as ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A September power outage at a California facility of SpaceX, the space venture of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, caused a loss of ground control for at least an hour ...
The incident led to about 100 to 240 cancer deaths. [2] [3] [4] May 1962: The Centralia mine fire in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania began due to a fire on the surface accidentally igniting the mine's shallow coal vein, forcing the gradual evacuation of the Centralia borough. The fire continues to burn underneath the abandoned settlement.
A whole floor of a building in New York City was once functioning as an "illegal police station" for the government of the People’s Republic of China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The post office, circa pre-1930 An aerial view of the post office, 1932. Manila's first post office was established in 1767. During the early years of the American occupation, the Philippine Commission created the Bureau of Posts, which later became the Philippine Postal Corporation, through Act No. 462 issued on September 15, 1902.