BOGOTA: At least 99 people have been killed and 1,600 have been left homeless by forest fires in central Chile’s Valparaiso region, authorities said Sunday.
Thirty-two people have been identified, said Chile’s Legal Medical Service, the state coroner…
MANILA: The bill institutionalizing new organizational reforms in the Philippine National Police (PNP) is one step closer to becoming a law after it was unanimously approved by the Senate on Monday.
Voting 23 in favor, zero against and zero abstentio…
MANILA: State-owned Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) said loans to agriculture and rural development recorded double-digit growth in 2023.
In a statement Monday, LandBank said outstanding loans to the entire agricultural value chain amounted t…
VIENTIANE: The Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Department of Livestock and Fisheries recently reported an H5N1 bird flu outbreak in a Vientiane market.
The Lao centre for animal disease research said, of the 65 poultry samples it received …
ILOILO: Iloilo City will celebrate the Chinese New Year as an acknowledgment of the significant contribution of the Filipino-Chinese community on the city’s development.
Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, in a briefing on Monday, said they started the celebratio…
TACLOBAN: Amid rising fuel prices, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will extend PHP42.48 million fuel subsidy to at least 14,162 fisherfolk in the Eastern Visayas region this year.
Christine Gresola, information officer of the BFA…
MANILA: Fair weather with isolated rain showers will prevail across the Philippines on Monday, the weather bureau said.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said in its 4 a.m. bulletin that the nor…