Army, OPAMINE vow to sustain Davao insurgency-free status

DAVAO: The 10th Infantry Division (I0ID) and the Presidential Assistant for Eastern Mindanao (OPAMINE) have vowed to further strengthen efforts in sustaining the peace gains of being an insurgency-free Davao region.

Maj. Mark Anthony Tito, the 10ID s…

Lunar New Year celebration for overseas Vietnamese slated for February 1-2

HCM City: The annual ‘Xuan Que Huong’ (Homeland Spring) programme – the biggest cultural event held for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) on the occasion of the Lunar New Year – will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on February 1-2, or the 22nd-23rd day of the …

Solon vows support to foreign investors in energy

MANILA: Senator Raffy Tulfo has promised to support foreign investors who want to invest in the field of energy in the Philippines.

Tulfo, who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy, made this promise in a dinner meeting with Singaporean business exec…

11-month remittances rise to $33.6B

MANILA: Personal remittances of overseas Filipinos (OFs) from January to November 2023 climbed to USD33.6 billion, almost 3 percent higher than the USD32.6 billion in the same period in 2022, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said Monday.

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SSS-Bicol: Pensioners 80 and up must show up for verification by March

LEGAZPI: Pensioners of the Social Security System (SSS) who are 80 years old and above will soon be required to do the annual confirmation in person.

In an interview on Monday, SSS-Bicol spokesperson Jeanette Mapa said starting March this year, a tot…

Wild pangolin handed over to forest rangers

Ba Ria: A resident in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on January 15 handed over a Java pangolin, also known as the Sunda pangolin, weighing 2.5kg, to the forest ranger office in Chau Duc- Ba Ria, Ba Ria city.

Le Nhat Hoang, a member of a for…

Signal shutdown mulled at Dinagyang festival

ILOILO: Citing security reasons, the Police Regional Office-Western Visayas (PRO-6) asked the Iloilo City government anew to consider a signal shutdown of telecommunications network during the major events of the Dinagyang Festival.

Brig. Gen. Sidney…