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An electrical fire razed the Star City amusement park and the adjacent Manila Broadcasting Company building in Pasay. [129] 21-23 May 2023 - The Manila Central Post Office was gutted by a fire that started from a leaking car battery. [130] 31 August 2023 - A fire at a house doubling as a t-shirt factory in Quezon City killed 15. [131]
As part of the Ayala Center redevelopment, tenants of Glorietta 1 and 2 were given an option to relocate to the newly constructed Glorietta 5; Glorietta 1 and 2 underwent reconstruction, with the addition of two office buildings, Holiday Inn & Suites Makati, and a roof deck called Top of the Glo. Tenants accepted the option, moving them until ...
A huge fire raged at a post office in Manila on Sunday (21 May), destroying the historic building. Footage shows thick smoke pouring from the Manila Central Post Office, which dates back to the 1920s.
A television set containing an 8-pound (3.6 kilograms) TNT bomb exploded in the lower decks of SuperFerry 14 off El Fraile island, [54] starting a fire that engulfed and sank the vessel and caused the deaths of 63 people, while another 53 were reported missing and presumed dead. [55]
MANILA (Reuters) - A massive fire swept through a crowded shanty town near the docks in Manila, destroying houses and leaving 15,000 people homeless, authorities in the Philippine capital said on ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 17 people were killed when their passenger van collided with a cargo truck then burst into flames Monday in the southern Philippines, police said.
The Manila Peninsula siege occurred on November 29, 2007, at The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati, Philippines. Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Brigadier General Danilo Lim, and 25 other Magdalo Group officers walked out of their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny coup attempt and marched through the streets of Makati.
Historical marker installed at the Manila Central Post Office in 1994. The Philippine postal system has a history spanning over 250 years. In 1767, the first post office in the Philippines was established in the city of Manila, which was later organized under a new postal district of Spain. [4]