MANILA: Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco on Tuesday highlighted the need to implement significant upgrades in airports outside Metro Manila.
Frasco said services and facilities in developing such secondary gateways as Ceb…
TACLOBAN: The Northern Samar provincial government will provide services to at least 3,343 poor families in the historic town of Capul in its service caravan on May 17.
The provincial government said the fifth caravan this year would cover all 12 vil…
BUTUAN: At least 30 Sibagat Manobo Dairy Producers (SMDP) members are now enjoying the financial returns from the project they conceptualized and supported by the government in 2023.
The SMDP is a local organization in Barangay Padiay, Sibagat, Agusa…
BAGUIO: The Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-CAR) has distributed about PHP31 million worth of supplies to El Niño-affected farmers.
Aida Pagtan, head of the DA-CAR Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Information Service,…
MANILA: The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the reinstatement of 72 warehouse supervisors of the National Food Authority (NFA) suspended last March.
The group was among the 139 respondent officials and employees placed on a six-month preventive s…
MANILA: The tight power supply in the Luzon grid during the yellow and red alerts in April has pushed electricity rates up in franchise areas of Manila Electric Company (Meralco).
Meralco announced Tuesday that power rates in May increased by PHP0.46…
SEOUL/BEIJING: The top diplomats of South Korea and China agreed Monday to work together for the successful holding of an upcoming trilateral summit also involving Japan widely expected to take place in Seoul later this month.
The two sides reached t…