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DA provides P96-M postharvest facilities to Quirino farmers

MANILA – The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) on Thursday inaugurated a rice processing facility and turned over several machineries worth a total PHP96 million that is …

US donates P11-M disaster response equipment to Cagayan

MANILA – The United States government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), donated PHP11.6 million worth of mobile storage units and mobile energy systems to help strengthen Cagayan province’s disaster risk reduction capacity…

Top Lao leader meets with former Vietnamese Presidents

General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee and State President Thongloun Sisoulith had separate meetings with former Vietnamese Presidents Nguyen Minh Triet and Truong Tan Sang in Ho Chi Minh City on September 12.

S…

Direct Paris-Manila flights favorable for PH tourism

MANILA – Air France’s resumption of its direct Manila-Paris flights after 20 years bodes well for the Philippine travel sector, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said, seeing it as a boost to French inbound arrivals.

It also pins the confidence of oth…

Candidacy filing for BARMM polls reset to November

MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has moved the period for the filing of certificates of candidacy for next year’s Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections.

In Comelec Resolution No. 11051 released…

PM chairs meeting on legislation to spur growth

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting with permanent Government members in Hanoi on September 11 to consider drafting a new law aimed at amending and supplementing seven existing laws to resolve obstacles and pave the way for robust develo…