MANILA: The Philippines won its first medal in the Eastern Asia Juniors and Girls Chess Championships, courtesy of a bronze from Christian Gian Karlo Arca in the Open rapid category in Karawaci-Tangerang, Indonesia on Thursday night.
The 15-year-old …
ILOILO CITY: Western Visayas recorded a 7.2 percent drop in crime incidence from January to May this year compared to the same period in 2023.
Police Regional Office (PRO) 6 (Western Visayas) Director, Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky, on Friday attributed the …
MANILA: Construction for the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) is expected to speed up with the arrival of two more tunnel boring machines (TBM) by yearend, for a total of six so far.
At the Pre-SONA (State of the Nation Address) Special over state-…
BUTUAN CITY: Two moderately strong earthquakes jolted parts of the Caraga Region on Friday.
A bulletin issued by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the first earthquake on Friday was recorded around 2:19 a.m. with …
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday held mock elections in Tawi-Tawi province, the country’s southernmost frontier, to test the new technologies to be used in the May 2025 midterm polls.
Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia, to…
TACLOBAN CITY: Farmers in the town of Biliran, Biliran, have been selling rice at only PHP20 per kilogram as a way of giving back to communities after receiving several aids from the government.
Biliran municipal agriculture officer Lemuel Antonio sa…