BAGUIO CITY: Health services, counselling and even vegetables were given for free on Tuesday at the culmination of an 18-day inter-agency caravan aimed at helping end violence against women (VAW).
Among the free services provided at the St. Vincent G…
MANILA: The measure seeking to impose a motor vehicle road user’s tax (MVRUT) to help finance the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program (PUVMP) hurdled final reading at the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
A total of 247 lawma…
DAVAO: The City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) has targeted around 170,000 senior citizens here to qualify for the annual subsidy.
In a radio interview Tuesday, CSWDO Finance Section head Julieta Vigil said those qualified will receive…
DUMAGUETE: The Philippine Army in Negros Oriental has intensified border security in the province to avert possible terror attacks similar to the Dec. 3 bombing of Mindanao State University in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur.
In a press briefing on
BACOLOD CITY: This city’s MassKara Festival, one of the Philippines’ most colorful festivities, goes worldwide with the scheduled appearances of its street dance performers in various festivals abroad in 2024. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said on M…
LAOAG CITY: The Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative is gifting consumers with an early Christmas present as it announced a further decline in power rates this December. Residential consumers can expect a reduction of PHP0.6390 per kilowatt hour (kWh) t…
MANILA: Oil companies will slash pump prices by more than PHP1 per liter starting 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. In separate advisories, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Jetti Petro Gazz, Phoenix Petroleum, PTT, Seaoil and Shell announced a gasoline price rollback by PHP1.60…
Hanoi: After a period of stagnation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many farm produce of Vietnam have recorded speedy growth in export to China so far this year and the shipments are predicted to keep increasing in the time ahead.
