MANILA: Officials of the Clark International Airport Corp. and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) recently signed a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of the state lottery’s back-up draw court facility.
The 4,000-square-meter…
MANILA: The Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Monday that there are no expected price spikes in pork despite the resurgence of African swine fever (ASF) cases in Batangas.
The DA made the statement after the Batangas Provincial Veterinary Office…
MANILA: The Department of National Defense (DND) is allocating some PHP11.7 billion to buy ballistic helmets and military body armors for some 115,000 Philippine Army (PA) soldiers.
In a bid bulletin posted at its website, the DND said the ballistic …
The Paris 2024 Olympics are expected to boost France’s GDP in the third quarter (Q3) by 0.3 percentage points, raising the growth rate during the period up to 0.5 percent, according to France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (I…
ILOILO CITY: A former barangay chairperson was shot dead in La Paz district here Monday.
Ernie Poral, 63, former chair of Barangay Ingore, La Paz, was shot in the head by a gunman in Barangay Baldoza at 7:12 a.m.
Police said Poral was buying feeds w…
MANILA: The Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) is mourning the death of Philippine cinema icon Lily Yu-Chu Monteverde, fondly called “Mother Lily” in the movie industry.
Monteverde, who died on Aug. 4, wa…
MANILA: Six resolutions were filed in the Senate on Monday seeking to award Carlos Yulo an official commendation and the Senate Medal of Excellence for bagging two gold medals in the ongoing Paris Olympics.
Senate Resolution Nos. (SRN) 1102 and 1106 …
MANILA: Communities should prepare for moderate to strong aftershocks following the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that jolted Surigao del Sur last Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said Monday.
Phivolcs has so far…
MANILA: Senator Grace Poe called on “program masterminds” of the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP) to stop “terrorizing drivers” with franchise revocation, arbitrary deadlines, and loss of investment if the program review will push through…