Philippine News

Senator Francis Tolentino has emphasized the need for the country to have a more accessible health program as doctor shortage remained as one of the main concerns in the Philippines. In his speech during the 93rd National Assembly of the League of Vice Governors of the Philippines in Baguio city, …

Albay is considering permanently relocating residents who lie within the six-kilometer radius of Mayon Volcano’s permanent danger zone, Gov. Edcel Greco Lagman said Thursday. “This perennial problem has to stop,” Lagman said in Filipino during a televised briefing. “We experience this every three or four years. Permanent resettlement is really …

Over 22,000 cops will be deployed for the upcoming State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in July, the Philippine National Police said Thursday. Maj. Gen. Edgar Alan Okubo, PNP National Capital Region Police Office Director, has been assigned to lead Task Force SONA to secure the …

To strengthen its efforts to integrate technology into learning, the Department of Education (DepEd) will provide e-learning carts to thousands of schools this year. (DepEd / MB Visual Content Group) “We will be giving out e-learning carts to schools this year,” DepEd Undersecretary and Spokesman Michael Poa said in a …

SHOWCASING PH ECONOMY. The economic team, led by Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno (third from left), holds the seventh Philippine Economic Briefing in Singapore on June 15, 2023 at the Fullerton Hotel to showcase the country’s robust growth and new investment opportunities. Other members of the economic team who attended the …

FEELING THE EARTH MOVE. Students and faculty members can be seen evacuating from Araullo High School along UN Avenue in Manila following a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that rocked Calatagan, Batangas, with tremors felt across the capital. Norman Cruz  A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit Calatagan town in Batangas on Thursday morning …

The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Southeast Asia was shot dead while resisting arrest, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reported Wednesday Western Mindanao Command Chief Lt. Gen. Roy Galido said Faharudin Hadji Benito Satar a.k.a. Abu Zacharia was killed in a 10-minute gunfight …

The Department of the Interior and Local Government is looking into the possibility that a powerful syndicate inside the police force was behind the P6.7 billion drug bust in Tondo, Manila eight months ago. DILG secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. said this group could be the reason investigators find it difficult …

At a Glance House Deputy Minority Leader ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro believes that Filipinos’ collective intelligence quotient (IQ) is being lowered by their reliance on influencers and social media for news and information. Castro is a member of the Makabayan bloc. (Unsplash) The reliance of young people on …

A regional trial court (RTC) in Leyte province has granted the petition of self-confessed drug lord Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa and four other co-accused to post bail over charges they engaged in the illegal drug trade. Baybay City RTC Branch 14 Presiding Judge Carlos Arguelles, in an order dated June 13, …