MANILA: A total of PHP7.5 billion has been allocated in the 2024 national budget for the modernization and expansion of the country’s aviation hubs in time for the projected full recovery of global air traffic in 2025, a lawmaker said on Wednesday.
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MANILA: The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released around PHP550 million for the expansion of the outpatient services of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI).
In a statement Wednesday, Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandama…
BACOLOD CITY: The Negros Occidental provincial government is gearing up for focused responses to help farmers cope with the effects of the El Niño phenomenon, seen to last until the second quarter of 2024.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and …
COTABATO CITY: Four contaminated water sources triggered dehydration and eventually led to the death of five persons, four of them minors, after an outbreak of diarrhea in a remote village in Maguindanao del Sur, officials said Wednesday.
Fuad Samola…
WASHINGTON: The US Treasury announced Tuesday that the federal government’s gross national debt has surpassed USD34 trillion, a record high.
The national debt jumped by USD2.6 trillion in the six months through December.
On Oct. 30, the Senate passe…
MANILA: World’s No. 2 pole vaulter Ernest John ‘EJ’ Obiena is busy preparing for the Paris Olympics, the world’s biggest sports event scheduled from July 26 to Aug. 11 this year.
The first Filipino to qualify for the Summer Games continues to bring p…
BACOLOD CITY: Several firms have expressed interest in bidding for the proposed solid waste recycling complex in Bacolod City under a public-public partnership (PPP) scheme.
Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said Tuesday the city government is heading t…