Festival of food to honor culinary excellence of Western Visayas

ILOILO CITY: A five-day festival of food in April this year will be a venue to honor the culinary excellence of Western Visayas while serving as a platform to celebrate the victory of this city as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura…

Vietnam an example of dangerous epidemic containment

Hanoi: Vietnam has established itself as one of the leading countries in the fight against emerging diseases in the context of a number of dangerous and fast-spreading epidemics in the world over the past years like COVID-19 and earlier, SARS or MERS-…

PBBM names Jose Moises Salonga as new LWUA head

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. appointed lawyer Jose Moises Salonga on February 19 as the new Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) chief, replacing Homer Revil.

Salonga graduated from Ateneo de Manila University in 1999 with a degre…

Fire-hit market store owners in Iriga City get P1.6-M livelihood aid

LEGAZPI: The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Bicol (DSWD-5) has distributed a total of PHP1.68 million in cash assistance, the third tranche of aid given to 84 fire-affected market store owners in Iriga City.

In an interview on Monday…

DOH-7 partners with PAF to ensure seamless blood service program

CEBU CITY: The Department of Health (DOH) in Central Visayas has partnered with the Philippine Air Force (PAF) to strengthen the blood service program to ensure that blood supply is available anytime in the region.

In a statement, the DOH said the pa…

Updating Constitution to help achieve PDP targets: NEDA

MANILA: National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary Arsenio Balisacan on Monday underscored the importance of updating the economic provisions in the Constitution to attract more foreign direct investments (FDI) and help achieve the P…

Gov’t forces sustain clearing ops in north Negros clash site

BACOLOD: Troops of the Philippine Army continue to conduct clearing operations in the hinterlands of northern Negros Occidental on Monday as classes resumed and some of the displaced residents returned home after a series of armed encounters in Barang…