Remember the couple who left their 1-year-old toddler inside a car parked in a Pasig mall in July 2018 while they went about their business? That parental neglect—coupled with the lack of a booster seat for the child as seen in the video that went viral—now constitutes a crime under Republic Act No. 11229, or the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act, which was signed into law last month. The highlight of RA 11229 is the
In 1991, Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon suffered long daily power outages (aka brownouts) because demand had well outstripped generation capacity. Five years before, the government decided not to operate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, plagued from the beginning by safety and corruption issues. The disastrous April 1986
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