NEW CLARK CITY, Pampanga – The Philippines’ first underground railway system, the Metro Manila Subway Project, has reached ‘significant progress’ in its construction, a senior Department of Transportation (DOTr) official said.
Speaking at the Presid…
MANILA: The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Tuesday lauded the adoption of a United Nations Human Rights Council (UN-HRC) resolution that seeks to protect and promote the human rights of seafarers around the world.
The resolution will allow th…
COTABATO CITY – The Maguindanao del Sur provincial board approved Tuesday a resolution declaring the entire province in a state of calamity due to massive flooding that submerged 17 of 24 municipalities and affected over 60,000 families.
Tim Ambolod…
DUMAGUETE CITY – The provincial government of Negros Oriental has so far distributed rice assistance to about 6,788 farmers who were badly hit by the El Niño-triggered drought to tide them over while recouping their losses.
The latest distribution w…
The number of Korean people still working at 70 and above increased by 150,000 in the first half of this year from a year earlier. It was the largest increase since related statistics began to be compiled in 2018, according to Statistics Korea.
The …
Seoul shares opened higher Tuesday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street buoyed by expectations for Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 6.95 points, or 0.24 percent, to 2,…
A North Korean diplomat who had been stationed in Cuba defected to South Korea last year, a government source said Tuesday, the latest in a growing number of defections by North Koreans in elite groups.
Ri Il-gyu, who had served as the counselor of …