BACOLOD CITY: The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has endorsed to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) PHP8,000 in fake peso bills found in a public market here.

A temporary certification issued by the BSP Bacolod Branch on July 22, declaring the …

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Wednesday directed government agencies to focus providing assistance in areas that are isolated as Typhoon Carina and the enhanced southwest monsoon or habagat continue to batter parts of the country with h…

MANILA: The National Capital Region (NCR) was placed under a state of calamity on Wednesday due to the continuous heavy rains and massive flooding caused by the Typhoon Carina-enhanced southwest monsoon.

The Metro Manila Council (MMC) – consisting of…

MANILA: Twenty-four road sections in Metro Manila have been closed and are not passable to all types of vehicles due to floods brought by continuous heavy rains from the Southwest Monsoon and Typhoon Carina.

In an advisory, the Department of Public W…

MANILA: The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is firming up its policies to strengthen the protection of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as it forged more bilateral agreements with countries of destination.

During the Post-SONA (State of the Natio…

MANILA: The Metro Manila Council (MMC) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will meet on Wednesday to decide whether a state of calamity needs to be declared in the National Capital Region (NCR) as Typhoon Carina and the enha…

TACLOBAN CITY: Red tide presence expanded in Biliran Island this week, with seven bays in Samar province still affected by this toxic organism, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said on Wednesday.

In its advisory, the agency said r…