TACLOBAN: The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is conducting an assessment of at least 20,306 poor families in Eastern Visayas (Region 8) classified as ‘not found’ in the Listahanan 3 database.
The Listahanan or the National Househ…
MANILA: Senators on Thursday called on the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to sit down and plan for a seamless transition for senior high school (SHS) students who could be affected by the discontinuation …
ROME: Pope Francis on Wednesday described war as “madness” as he reiterated his appeal for peace in Ukraine and Gaza and other areas of the world afflicted by conflict.
“Let us not forget the peoples who are at war,” the Pope said during his weekly g…
MANILA: Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi is visiting the Philippines next week to discuss with his counterpart regional issues and ways to take the two nations’ bilateral cooperation to a higher level, the Department of Foreign Affair…
MANILA: The Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC) Board, which serves as the governing body of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), held its inaugural meeting on Wednesday.
In a statement posted on the Presidential Communications Office, the MIC Boa…
MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Thursday advised his fellow Filipinos to plan their vacations ahead, given the long weekends in 2024.
In a Facebook post, Marcos shared the 2024 holiday calendar which shows that there will be at least fou…
ANKARA: At least four people were injured in a stabbing incident on a train in the Japanese capital city late Wednesday, according to local media.
Public broadcaster NHK reported that a woman was wielding a knife on a train that had stopped at JR Aki…