MANILA: Senators on Monday condemned the China Coast Guard (CCG) for its seizure and dumping of food supplies meant for Philippine soldiers in Ayungin Shoal, as well as preventing a medical evacuation of injured soldiers in separate incidents in the W…
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Students on school vacation start work at Occidental Mindoro LGU
MAMBURAO: Some 38 students participating in the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) began their work at different offices of the provincial government here on Monday.
In an online post, the Pr…
Quakes rock Negros provinces
DUMAGUETE CITY: A series of earthquakes rocked the southern towns of Basay in Negros Oriental and Hinobaan in Negros Occidental early afternoon Monday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
The latest was a magnitude…
Ilocos Region takes part in DICT’s nat’l fiber backbone project
LINGAYEN: Ilocos Region provinces are part of Phase 1 of the National Fiber Backbone (NFB) of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), aimed to enhance internet reliability.
DICT Ilocos Region officer-in-charge and chief of…
Israel arrests another Palestinian journalist in West Bank
RAMALLAH: A Palestinian woman journalist was detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to local media.
Rasha Herzallah, from the northern city of Nablus, was summoned by Israeli intelligence agents for questioning at a…
Altiche pockets men’s singles title in Isabela tennis tourney
MANILA: Top seed John Mari Altiche lived up to his billing, beating John Jeric Accion, 6-3, 6-3, to win the men’s singles Open title in the Mayor Doc Totep Calderon National Tennis Championships at the Lado Del Rio Resort court in Roxas, Isabela last …
DA bats for 20.44M MT rice output despite El Niño, ‘Aghon’
MANILA: The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday remained hopeful in meeting its target of 20.44 million metric tons (MT) of local rice production for the year.
In an interview, DA Undersecretary for Rice Industry Development Christopher Morales …
Power rate in Bacolod, adjacent LGUs seen to drop by P3-P4 next month
BACOLOD CITY: The residential power rate in this highly urbanized city and its five neighboring local government units (LGUs) is expected to go down by PHP3 to PHP4 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the next billing cycle.
Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez sai…
Ombudsman suspends Guo, 2 others over graft cases filed by DILG
MANILA: The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the suspension of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and two others for up to six months in connection with the graft charges filed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
The DILG al…