MANILA: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday said children suffer the most in any emergency, bearing the brunt of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.
This was after heavy rains and massive floods devastated the Na…
ILOILO CITY: Five municipalities of Iloilo experienced flooding due to massive rains caused by the southwest monsoon and enhanced by Super Typhoon Carina.
Despite this, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office chief Cornelio Salinas s…
MANILA: Three 44-meter multi-role response vessels (MRRVs) have been deployed to augment the ongoing oil spill response operations in Bataan.
This was after the Philippine-flagged Motor Tanker Terra Nova sank 3.6 nautical miles east of Lamao Point, L…
BACOLOD CITY: Some 8,504 rice farmers in Negros Occidental can avail of technology for fast and efficient land preparation through the 15 brand-new units of floating tiller distributed by the provincial government here.
Data from the Office of the Pr…
BACOLOD CITY: Negros Occidental’s provincial government awarded on Thursday a total of PHP901,000 in cash incentives to its athletes who won medals in the just-concluded 2024 Palarong Pambansa held in Cebu City.
The amount consisted of PHP224,000 for…
After 7 years in operation, the first human milk bank in Vietnam at the Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children in the central city of Da Nang has yielded exciting results. The bank has called on 618 mothers to donate 12,744 litres of human milk, prov…