ILOILO CITY: The City Health Office (CHO) here urged the public on Monday to be on high alert and intensify the conduct of preventive measures against dengue following the death of a 69-year-old woman, the first fatality of the year.
At a press confe…
LEGAZPI CITY: The Department of Agriculture (DA) has started distributing different agricultural interventions to rice farmers in the Bicol Region for the wet cropping season to ensure enough rice supply ahead of the forecasted La Niña.
In an intervi…
TACLOBAN CITY: Since her teenage years, Marites Solonia, 44, has been engaged in fishing in the island town of Limasawa in Southern Leyte, but she said it was only during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., that the fishing sector go…
Leaders and staff members of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) expressed their respect for and great grief over the passing of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at a commemoration held on July 22. The event at the VNA headquarters in Hanoi was con…
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to conduct a plebiscite in Caloocan City next month for the division of Barangay Bagong Silang, the country’s most populous barangay in the country.
In Comelec Resolution 11007 made public on Monda…
MANILA: The country’s poverty rate fell to 15.5 percent in 2023 from 18.1 percent in 2021, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Monday.
The poverty incidence during the period surpassed the government’s 16 percent to 16.4 percent target …