MANILA, Philippines — Rosemarie Magracia remembers the last time she talked with her daughter Precilla before the tragic fire in the slippers factory Kentex four years ago. It was Mother’s Day ...

The owner of the ill-fated Kentex factory has asked Sandiganbayan to order the dismissal of his criminal cases in connection with the May 2015 fire that left over 74 people dead.

The Department of Justice has created a special panel to evaluate various reports on the seven-hour fire that gutted Kentex Manufacturing Corp. and killed 72 people on May 13. July 10, 2022 News ...

The Palace official, however, said that the victims’ families’ decision to settle with Kentex will not affect the government’s ongoing probe on the fire incident, which left over 70 people dead. “Any ...

On Wednesday, 72 employees were killed and many were left injured in a large industrial fire in the Philippines. The Kentex Manufacturing Corporation, a footwear manufacturing plant in Valenzuela ...

Kentex fire: Ombudsman wants charges vs Gatchalian reinstated. Jan 5, 2017 10:38 PM PHT. ... the Fire Code is a national law requiring FSIC compliance before any business permits are issued.

The Kentex factory fire in Valenzuela City that killed 72 people was initially traced to a welder who apparently had no safety measures in place while fixing a gate and allowed welding sparks to ...

All bodies were believed to have been retrieved from the gutted two-story Kentex Manufacturing Corp. rubber slipper factory, a day after the fire raged for over five hours in the outskirts of the ...

The Sandiganbayan has cleared the head of slipper maker Kentex Manufacturing Corporation as well as Valenzuela City fire officials of criminal charges in connection with the May 13, 2015 factory fire ...

Firemen work to put the fire under control at a still-smoldering Kentex rubber slipper factory in Valenzuela city, a suburb of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Bullit Marquez-AP ...

Such irony behind the statistics: the year the Kentex factory fire in Bulacan killed over 70 workers was also the period when almost all Philippine businesses had preventive measures for work ...