Brunei News Gazette

Category: General

PBBM returns from successful ASEAN summit in Indonesia

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. arrived in Manila on Thursday following his participation in the successful 42nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Related Summits in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. The plane carrying Marcos and the o…

DSWD helps rescued cyber scam victims in Pampanga

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is now assisting more than 1,000 cyber scam victims rescued by government law enforcers from the Clark Freeport Zone in Mabalacat, Pampanga province on May 4. Of the 1,090 rescued victims, 171 we…

Batangas town launches recycling, livelihood project

The local government unit (LGU) of Cuenca, through the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO), has launched a program that turns used beverage cartons (UBCs) into new and salable materials, such as chairs, tables, mobile phone hold…

NPC receives bomb threat, evacuates staff

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Friday received a bomb threat through its official Facebook page, prompting its employees to vacate office premises at the PICC in Pasay City. NPC commissioner John Henry Naga said they are looking into the cre…

DENR seizes P8.6-M hot logs from Jan.-April in Caraga

The intensified campaigns against illegal logging in the Caraga region netted a total volume of 214,121.35 board feet of hot logs from January to April, with a total value of PHP8,609,253. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 13 (Car…

DA memo on biofertilizer use to prevent new fertilizer scam

Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian on Friday assured that the recent memorandum on the use of biofertilizers was issued to prevent a repeat of the 2004 fertilizer fund scam. In a press briefing in Malacañang, Sebastian sa…

C. Visayas LPG players without registration, license warned

An official of the Department of Energy on Thursday urged Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) players in Central Visayas to legalize their business operation by securing registration and license to operate (LTO). Lawyer Rino Abad, director of the Department…

PSEi slightly up on positive Q1 GDP report, peso ends sideways

Better-than-expected expansion of the Philippine economy in the first quarter of 2023 lifted further the local bourse’s main index on Thursday but the peso ended sideways against the United States dollar. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ros…

At least 25 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to 25, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Thursday. Another 76 Palestinians have been injured in the air attacks, according to the ministry. Early on Thursday, the Al-Quds Brigades, …