DBM assures health workers of gov’t support, release of allowance

MANILA: The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has met with members of the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) to discuss the grievances and concerns of healthcare workers to provide update about the release of their remaining emergency allowance….

4 MILF members slain in Maguindanao Sur ambush

SHARIFF AGUAK: Maguindanao del Sur – Four members of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were killed in an ambush Sunday by unidentified gunmen in Barangay Satan here, police said.

In an interview Monday, Lt. Colonel Reggie Albellera, municipal acti…

Cops intercept van carrying P13.3-B shabu in Batangas checkpoint

MANILA: Police officers intercepted a vehicle carrying some PHP13.3 billion worth of shabu in Batangas on Monday morning.

Initial reports reaching Camp Crame in Quezon City said the contraband was found in a silver van bearing plate number CBM 5060, …

S. Korea to extend fuel tax cut through June amid Middle East tensions

SEOUL: The government will extend the tax cut on fuel consumption by an additional two months amid growing tensions in the Middle East, Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok said Monday.

South Korea has applied a 25 percent discount on the consumption of ga…

FLOODS: ALL THREE RELIEF CENTRES IN MELAKA CLOSED

MELAKA, Three temporary flood relief centres in the state were closed in stages today after all evacuees were allowed to return to their homes.

State Disaster Management Committee secretariat Lt Col (PA) Kamarulsyah Muslim said that in Alor Gajah, t…

S’WAK DEPUTY MINISTER’S HOUSE IN REMOTE BARIO DESTROYED BY FIRE

KUCHING, A house belonging to a Sarawak deputy minister in Pa’ Umor, Bario, a highland area in the northern interior of the state, was razed by fire yesterday.

Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) director Datuk Khirudin Drahman said the house,…

AFP, PNP loyal to Charter; reject calls to withdraw support for PBBM

MANILA: The military and the police assured their full loyalty to the Constitution and the chain of command, shrugging off calls for them to withdraw their support for President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.

In a statement Monday, Armed Forces of the Phili…