BACOLOD: A lawmaker from Negros Occidental asked the national government to buy sugar directly from producers amid the continuing drop in the farmgate price of sugar.
Fifth District Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo, a former board member of the Sugar Regu…
MANILA: About PHP776 million worth of excavators have been distributed to various irrigators’ associations nationwide by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) to intensify local irrigation and agricultural systems.
In a news release Friday, th…
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to hold a second round of bidding for the 2025 poll automation project in January 2024.
Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said the Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) is planning to…
MANILA: Former president Rodrigo R. Duterte said the grave threat charge filed against him by ACT Party-list Rep. France Castro before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office was purely speculative.
In his 12-page counter affidavit sworn before Davao Cit…
MANILA: The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and three other government agencies on Friday signed Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) No.1, Series of 2023 that provides the guidelines on the proper reporting, monitoring, and utilization…
MANILA: Malta and Albania are interested to forge a bilateral labor agreement (BLA) with the Philippines, with talks already in their early stages.
The Philippine Embassy in Italy, which has concurrent jurisdiction over Malta and Albania, said it pla…
MANILA: The Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) has kept the gross domestic product (GDP) growth outlook for this year and revised downward its growth forecast.
In a statement Friday, the DBCC said it maintained the growth projection of …
MANILA: The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the dismissal of an accountant who used the company payroll for the informal savings system called ‘paluwagan.’
In a statement released Friday on a recent decision, the SC said ‘using the company payroll
