The retail price of imported rice should go down amid the downward trend in the world market as its cost remains high at P60 per kilo in Philippine markets, farmers’ group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura chairman Rosendo So said yesterday.
Amid the worsening impact of climate change, more than 100 barangays in the country were identified by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as most at risk of flooding, a ranking official said.
Developing countries are having difficulty accessing climate financing, President Marcos said as he emphasized the need to act on climate change being felt in the Philippines through frequent and intense disasters.
Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos has urged those running for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections.
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte is urging the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) to remain committed to its legal defense of indigents, lauding public defenders for increasing the fighting chance of vulnerable members of society in safe...
The Commission on Audit has flagged the P3.14-billion Land Transportation Management System project of the Land Transportation Office over delays in the implementation of the program, despite full payments for core applications and at least 15 contrac...
For three consecutive years, Metro Manila's most populous city has secured the top spot on the list, as indicated in previous years' reports and a recent release on Tuesday.
House Committee on Appropriations Vice Chairperson Stella Quimbo said that the panel reached a “unanimous decision” to "remove or realign the controversial confidential funds" in the 2024 budget.
In a statement, the CHR said its office in MIMAROPA has deployed a team to conduct an investigation into the reported abduction of Alia Encela (19), Job Abednego David (29), and Jimby del Monte (29).
Around seven in every 10 Filipinos believe that climate change is dangerous for the environment, the Philippines and their respective families, according to a recent survey by Pulse Asia.
Just like the Commission on Elections poll watchdogs believe that erring barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan post aspirants can be removed from the list of candidates before election day.
In view of the public outcry for more transparency, the rules governing utilization of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) should be “tightened” to prevent politicians from wasting hard-earned taxpayers’ money, a militant lawmaker suggested over...
The Department of Agriculture should not relax its guard amid the projection of a strong drought to occur later this year and likely to continue until the second quarter of 2024, former DA secretary Leonardo Montemayor warned.
The crude oil tanker that collided with a fishing boat in Pangasinan and resulted in the death of three Filipino fishermen is now in Singapore, Philippine Coast Guard Rear Admiral Armand Balilo said yesterday.
More than 70 percent of the population, or seven out of 10 people, support the move to reinstate the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, a nationwide online survey conducted by research and analytics firm Capstone-Intel Corp. fou...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo and Trade Secretary Alfredo Pascual will travel to Australia to preside over the 6th Philippines-Australia Ministerial Meeting.
The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development has agreed to automate land use and human settlement planning to help local government units make communities sustainable.
China’s People’s Liberation Army is no longer in the background, with Beijing increasingly turning to the PLA as an instrument of coercion in trying to achieve its revisionist aims in the East and South China Seas, according to an official of the Unite...
Two months after President Marcos announced the suspension of all reclamation projects in Manila Bay, fishermen witnessed a dredging vessel closely passing their boat off Cavite on Saturday night, fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakay...
The National Privacy Commission has launched an investigation to ascertain the full scope of the data breach involved in the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. ransomware attack, as it discovers over 700 gigabytes extracted from a data dump claimed to b...
Senator Francis Tolentino said he will seek a Senate probe into the deaths of the three Filipino fishermen off the coast of Agno, Pangasinan on Oct. 2.
The latest resupply mission for troops on the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal saw “for the first time” the participation of the People’s Liberation Army in the attempt by the Chinese to block the operation, Philippine Coast Guard spokesman for the W...
Filipinos roared in joy and relief as their men’s basketball team ended decades of heartbreak in winning their first Asian Games gold medal in 61 years.
The Commission on Elections has ordered over 5,000 candidates in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) to explain their alleged violations.
The “small committee” created by the House of Representatives to review the realignment of confidential and intelligence funds in the proposed national budget for 2024 is expected to complete its task next week.
Malacañang has opened a songwriting competition for college students nationwide, which seeks to highlight the youth’s hope for “Bagong Pilipinas” or New Philippines, the Marcos administration’s brand of governance.
Internet freedom sharply declined in the Philippines over the past year after the Duterte and Marcos administrations imposed new controls on online spaces, according to the latest Freedom of the Net report of Washington-based non-profit Freedom House.