Category: General

South Korean female author wins 2024 Nobel Prize in literature

Ankara: The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang.

Han was recognized for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Nobel committee announced on…

3.6K Albayanos receive cash aid via DSWD program

Legazpi: A total of 3,605 individuals from Legazpi City and Ligao City, both in Albay province, received financial assistance on Friday through the Ayuda sa Kapos Ang Kita Program (AKAP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development-Bicol (DSWD-…

Loan deal to jump-start key road project in Northern Samar

Tacloban: The Northern Samar provincial government has welcomed the recent loan agreement on the USD111.43 million (about PHP6.34 billion) Samar Pacific Coastal Road 2 (SPCR 2) project between the Philippine government and the Export-Import Bank of Ko…

Elusive POGO kingpin falls in Laguna

Manila: Philippine authorities nabbed a Chinese national tagged as the ‘godfather’ of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), in Laguna province Thursday night.

In a television interview Friday, Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission exec…