The National Irrigation Administration in Northern Mindanao (NIA-10) has adopted “green technology” in four areas of the region to help sustain farmers’ productivity. In an interview Thursday, NIA-10 Manager Elpidio Lucernas Jr. said solar pumps have …
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) of Batangas said it is assessing various local government units’ (LGUs) readiness and ability to respond to the effects of the earthquake that struck the province at 10:19 a.m. on T…
The municipality of Hamtic has reported PHP8 million in damage following the death of 906 hogs suspected to be cases of African swine fever (ASF). Hamtic Municipal Agriculture Officer (MAO) Isidro Ramos said in an interview Thursday that 18 out of the…
A proposal seeking to create an inter-agency body that will be tasked to help the government address the imminent water crisis has hurdled committee level at the House of Representatives. The House Committee on Public Works and Highways, chaired by Su…
A female public school teacher died in a grenade blast inside her home in Barangay Ginatilan here at 2 a.m. Thursday, according to Pikit Municipal police chief Lt. Col John Miredel Calinga. Calinga identified the fatality as Marichu Valle Cabañog, 42,…
Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Benjamin Diokno has urged Singaporean businesses to explore opportunities in the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF). At the Philippine Economic Briefing in Singapore on Thursday, Diokno cited the MIF’s role in the co…
When Marivic Bawalan-Aguirre started planting coconuts and other fruit-bearing trees in their idle lot about 13 years ago, little did she know that one day, she would be transforming a once sleepy rural village into a quaint agro and ecotourism destin…
The Northern Samar provincial government will build residential care for children in conflict with the law (CICL) to be called Bahay Pag-asa (House of Hope). Key officials led by Governor Edwin Ongchuan led the groundbreaking of the special facility f…
Residents and personnel of the Home for the Girls (HFG) here have completed a three-day digital literacy training aimed at In a statement Thursday, the Department of Social Welfare and beneficiaries and residents of the HFG and nine of its staff membe…
At least 21 former New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Tarlac province have received financial assistance as part of the government’s continuing effort to help them start new lives. This is under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-C…