TACLOBAN CITY – Some 10,752 households in the Eastern Visayas region will be covered in the ongoing July 2023 Labor Force Survey (LFS) and 2023 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) regional office here…
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – An initial 50 families affected by the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project in this city have been relocated to their new homes. The city government, together with the Department of Transp…
UNITED NATIONS – Global public debt increased to US$92 trillion in 2022, according to a new United Nations (UN) report. Cascading crises in recent years triggered a sharp acceleration of this trend, said the UN Conference on Trade and Development in i…
LEGAZPI CITY – More than 9,000 rice farmers from the six provinces of the Bicol Region were able to graduate from the School-On-Air on Smart Rice Agriculture (SOA-SRA) program handled by the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) of the Department of A…
MANILA – Senators have emphasized the importance of integrating water harvesting facilities in new structural development projects to provide a long-term solution to the El Ñino weather phenomenon that constantly hits the country. In a news release Th…
ANKARA – South African 800-meter runner Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, has won an appeal against track and field’s testosterone rules at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Semenya hailed Tuesday’s decision for ending ‘discri…
MANILA – The Jiu-Jitsu Federation of the Philippines is sending 18 athletes to the World Championships scheduled from July 14 to 20 at the Steppe Arena in Ulaabaatar City, Mongolia. Kimberly Anne Custodio, who ruled the women’s -45kg last year in Abu …
MANILA – The green lanes for strategic investments are now running in national government agencies (NGAs) and local government units (LGUs) where securing of licenses and permits for critical investment projects will be expedited. President Ferdinand …