LEGAZPI CITY: To provide sustainable livelihood to a farmers’ group in Albay, the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Bicol (DSWD-5), through its Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP), on Thursday gave a seed capital of PHP300,000 for its g…
MALASIQUI: Six boatmen associations in Alaminos City, Pangasinan have each received a motorized wooden boat from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) under its Integrated Livelihood Program.
Alaminos City Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office …
MANILA: The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Thursday attributed the low unemployment rate of 3.1 percent in June to the robust economic growth.
Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma said the government has provided more jobs in several sec…
MANILA: Seventeen Chinese nationals who were arrested in a suspected cyber scam den in Iloilo City have pleaded guilty to violation of Republic 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
In a statement on Thursday, Cybercrime Investigation and C…
MANILA: Acting Trade Secretary Maria Cristina Roque has created a hotline that will enable consumers to have a direct communication with and report their concerns to her.
The public may reach her by sending an electronic mail to [email protected], Roque…
MANILA: As the government reported a 6.3-percent economic growth for the second quarter of the year, both the local stock market and the currency closed trading in the green territory.
The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ended 0.22 p…
CEBU CITY: Residents in isolated and far-flung communities in the 16 Visayas provinces will soon be reached and served by the state-of-the-art mobile clinics, a health official said on Thursday.
Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Glenn Mathew …
MANILA: The Department of Education (DepEd) and the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) have joined hands to augment the government’s thrust in solving the jobs and skills mismatch problem in the country, coming up with an ‘enhanced work immersion’…
BACOLOD CITY: The Sugar Regulatory (SRA) is working to determine the actual volume of sugar-based products or ‘other sugars’ entering the country, believed to be affecting the demand for domestic sugar.
‘The first thing we will do is we will try to r…
BACOLOD CITY: The Sugar Regulatory (SRA) is working to determine the actual volume of sugar-based products or ‘other sugars’ entering the country, believed to be affecting the demand for domestic sugar.
‘The first thing we will do is we will try to r…