Palace tells LGUs: Ensure buildings are up to code following Myanmar quake

Manila Bulletin

As part of disaster preparedness efforts, Malacañang has called on local government units (LGUs) to ensure that buildings comply with safety standards following the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar that left over 1,600 people dead and four Filipinos unaccounted for. (Video courtesy of RTVM)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/3/31/ensure-buildings-up-to-code  Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5664f6TkaeHgwBly50DWZQ/join  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00Q. Regarding Lindo in Myanmar and Thailand, concerned government agencies are taking steps

00:13to check on our fellow Filipinos in the two countries. Any directive straight from the

00:19President for assistance to our fellow Filipinos?

00:22A. Yes. There was an inter-agency meeting and the President and Secretary Gilberto Chedoro

00:28Jr. said that they will mobilize the resources so that we can help our fellow Filipinos immediately.

00:36Tomorrow is the tentative travel date for deployment of our troops. The grand total

00:44is 114 personnel that we will send tomorrow. That is the tentative date. It will come from

00:50agencies such as DOH, Urban Search and Rescue Team, Bureau of Fire Protection, Armed Forces

01:00of the Philippines, MMDA, and Apex Mining Corporation of First-Gen Energy Development.

01:10So that is our tentative date tomorrow so that the Philippines can help our fellow Filipinos

01:18and citizens here in the countries that are experiencing crisis due to the aforementioned

01:27Lindo.

01:28Q. Joseph, is the President here?

01:31A. Yes. That is the order of the President to our agencies to immediately help our fellow

01:39Filipinos.

01:40Q. How prepared is our government for this kind of disaster?

02:09A. Yes. We are prepared. We are ready to help our fellow Filipinos. We are ready to help

02:25our fellow Filipinos.

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