MANILA: Aira Villegas’ Cinderella run in the women’s 50-kilogram boxing division of the Paris Olympics came to an end early Wednesday (Philippine Time) after losing in the semifinals to Turkiye’s Buse Naz Cakiroglu as the entire boxing event shifted t…
MANILA: The Senate inquiry on the massive oil spill caused by the ill-fated MT Terranova will push through on Aug. 13, Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino announced on Wednesday.
Tolentino earlier filed a resolution to investigate the cause of t…
LEGAZPI CITY: The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Bicol (DSWD-5) will include more household beneficiaries for the Walang Gutom Food Stamp Program (FSP) for 2025.
In an interview on Wednesday, DSWD-Bicol Regional Director Norman Lauri…
BACOLOD CITY: This highly urbanized city’s annual budget is set to breach the PHP4-billion mark in 2025, from only PHP3.6 billion this year, estimates as of Wednesday showed.
Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said when he assumed in 2022, the annual bud…
MANILA: The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has greenlighted the release of some PHP579 million in funds for the implementation of projects under the People’s Survival Fund (PSF) aimed at enhancing community resilience and sustainability
In…
MANILA: The number of jobless Filipinos went down to 1.62 million in June this year from 2.33 million a year ago, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.
In a briefing on Wednesday, National Statistician Dennis Mapa said the number of unemplo…