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“Walang gutom”  —  no one hungry  —  is the name of this new food stamp program introduced by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) that aims to provide nutritious food access to one million food-poor Filipinos across the country. This program’s pilot and full implementation garnered the approval …

Image Credit: orfonline.org EVER since the signing of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, one of that global accord’s most important provisions, the funding of the climate adaptation needs of vulnerable countries by the developed world responsible for the greatest part of planet-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has proven …

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, …

Orders Cabinet to scramble budget, avoid depleting quick response funds of LGUs LEGAZPI CITY—President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday ordered national agencies to cover 90 days of relief assistance to evacuees of the areas around restive Mayon Volcano to unburden local government units (LGUs) responding to the disaster. Three months, …

SOCIAL Welfare and Development Assistant Secretary Romel Lopez said on Wednesday that Mayon Volcano’s unrest has forced more than 15,000 people to live in evacuation centers in Albay. Lopez said that 37,927 people or 9,688 families were displaced and their livelihoods disrupted due to Mayon’s restive state. The 22 evacuation …

Mayon Volcano could have a “violent or more vigorous” eruption that can build up in just a matter of hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said Wednesday. More than 37,000 residents or 9,500 families have been affected by the ongoing volcanic unrest, the National Disaster Risk Reduction …

At a Glance Based on the PNP data, there are around 2.1 million registered firearms in the Philippines Of the 2.1 million registered firearms, around 539,000 of them have expired licenses Securing LTOPF and gun registration are available in CSG offices and satellite offices in SM malls across the country …