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STUMP. Only tree stumps remain of the large trees that provided shade to motorists and pedestrians along a section of Quirino Avenue in Malate, Manila, on May 18, 2026. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said tree-cutting and earth-balling permits covering sections of Quirino Avenue were issued to make way for the construction of the Southern Access Link Expressway.
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'I remember the old poets used to write about Manila Bay and freedom. It made me think of what and how we now write of the bay and of Metro Manila, the decaying and expanding dominion of capital.'
On May 11, the day after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced that the fire in the Navotas landfill was already extinguished, government officials and business magnate Ramon Ang trooped to the area in a convoy.








