INVEST IN WOMEN, PUSH FOR PROGRESS – POE
SENATOR Grace Poe called for opportunities to engage women in various fields of endeavors and leadership, saying their participation is vital to propel the...
Month: March 2024
FDA WORKING WITH BIR TO CUT MEDICINE PRICES FOR SENIORS
THE Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently working with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to bring down prices of medicine for senior...
PBBM SIGNS INTO LAW PH SALT INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT ACT
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has signed into law the “Philippine Salt Industry Development Act” which aims to strengthen and revitalize the salt industry...
MARCOS SIGNS LAW PROHIBITING ‘NO PERMIT, NO EXAM’ POLICY
STUDENTS with unpaid tuition and other school fees could now take periodic and final examinations following President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s signing of Republic...
MAG-INANG BALIKBAYAN GALING JAPAN NATAGPUANG NAKABAON SA QUEZON
NADISKUBRENG nakabaon sa likod bahay ng isang kaanak sa Tayabas City, Quezon nitong Huwebes ang mag-inang balikbayan na una nang napaulat na nawawala. Sa...
AUSSIE SHOOTS 3 IN ANGELES CITY
BY KEVIN GALANG AN Australian national who fired shots at three men, including a minor, on Thursday was shot in the chest at Sitio...
ASSASSINS KILL MAN NEAR MOSQUE IN BULACAN
BY KEVIN GALANG MOTORCYCLE-RIDING men on Thursday shot dead a 51-year-old man near a mosque in Phase 6D, Bgy. Gaya-Gaya, City of San Jose...
MISSING 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOUND DEAD IN SACK
A 7-YEAR-OLD girl reported missing on Sunday was found dead in a sack in General Santos City on Wednesday. Victim Leah, not her real...
CZECH REPUBLIC OPENS DOORS TO MORE FILIPINO SKILLED WORKERS
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Thursday welcomed the government of Czech Republic’s decision to increase the quota for Filipino workers entering their country...
HOUSE WEBSITE ATTACKED HALF A BILLION TIMES IN ONE DAY
THE website of the House of Representatives encountered 541.66 million cyber attacks on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. This was revealed by House Secretary General...
MARCOS GETS CZECH REPUBLIC SUPPORT ON SOUTH CHINA SEA
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has secured Czech Republic’s support on the South China Sea (SCS) issue, which said rules-based order must be respected...
SM CALAMBA CONDUCTS FIRE DRILL
SM City Calamba joins the simultaneous nationwide fire drill. SM City Calamba’s Customer Relations Services, in coordination with the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP),...
PRO3 CELEBRATES WOMEN’S MONTH WITH TREE PLANTING ACTIVITY
BY KEVIN GALANG CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga –Policewomen and female non-uniformed personnel of the Police Regional Office 3 on Tuesday celebrated...
BINAY SLAMS CONSTRUCTION OF RESORTS IN CHOCOLATE HILLS
SENATOR Nancy Binay on Wednesday expressed dismay over the construction of structures in the protected areas of Chocolate Hills in Bohol. “Nakakagalit at nakakadurog...
AMNESTY GRANT FOR FORMER REBELS GETS SENATE’ NOD – JINGGOY
FOLLOWING the Senate’s concurrence with Presidential Proclamation No. 404, some 3,000 former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front...
SENATE RATIFIES MEASURE INCREASING TEACHERS’ ALLOWANCE
THE Senate on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, ratified the harmonized version of a measure doubling the teaching allowance for public school teachers, also referred...
PBBM SECURES $4-B INVESTMENT DEALS IN 3-DAY WORKING VISIT TO GERMANY
AT least USD 4 billion or P220B worth of investment deals were secured by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. from eight different types of...
OVER 800 WORKERS RESCUED IN TARLAC POGO RAID
MORE than 800 suspected victims of human trafficking on Wednesday were rescued in a raid at a POGO compound in Bamban, Tarlac. A report...
SENATE LAUDS ATHLETES FOR BAGGING NUMEROUS MEDALS IN 19th ASIAN GAMES
THE Senate adopted a resolution on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, commending and congratulating members of the Philippine team for their exemplary performance in the...
PHILHEALTH TO PROVIDE FREE MAMMOGRAM, ULTRASOUND STARTING JULY — ROMUALDEZ
HOUSE Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Tuesday said that the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) will provide free yearly mammogram and ultrasound services starting...
DSWD, MSU PARTNER TO HELP ORPHANS, ABANDONED CHILDREN IN MARAWI
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Mindanao State University (MSU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to help orphans and...
BI OPENS OFFICE IN SIARGAO TO SERVE MORE FOREIGN TOURISTS
THE Bureau of Immigration on Tuesday opened its new office in the island of Siargao. The BI office located at Purok 1 Poblacion in...
P65-M ILLEGAL VAPE PRODUCTS SEIZED IN LAGUNA
JOINT operatives on Monday night arrested two men and seized some P65 million worth of illegal e-cigarettes in a raid at a warehouse in Bgy....
2 MEN NABBED FOR GUN POSSESSION DURING ANGELES CITY DEMOLITION
BY KEVIN GALANG TWO men were arrested by the police for gun possession and pointing their firearms at five persons during the serving of...
PHIVOLCS NAGPALABAS NG VOG ALERT SA TAAL VOLCANO
NAGPALABAS ng vog alert ang Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) sa Taal Volcano nitong Martes makaraang mabalot ng makapal na smog ang...
FIRE HITS PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL
MORE than a hundred patients were evacuated to safety when a fire on Wednesday hit the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) in Padre Faura St....
HOUSE COMMITTEE CITES QUIBOLOY FOR CONTEMPT
KINGDOM of Jesus Christ (KOJC) founder Pastor Apollo Quiboloy on Tuesday was cited for contempt by the House Committee on Legislative Franchises over his...
11 PINOY SEAFARERS WHO SURVIVED HOUTHI SHIP ATTACK BACK IN PH
ELEVEN Filipino crew members of the MV True Confidence which was attacked by Houthi rebels safely arrived at the NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay...
MAN STABS MOTHER DEAD OVER REFUSAL TO GIVE HIM MONEY
POLICE arrested a 39-year-old man for stabbing his own mother dead in Quezon City. Nabbed was Romeo Opriasa, a resident of Amuslan St., Bgy....
SOLDIER SHOOTS BARRACKS’ ‘INTRUDER’
BY KEVIN GALANG A TROOPER on Tuesday shot a 23-year-old man who barged into his barracks in Nueva Ecija. In a report to Police...
COLLEGE STUDENT RAPED, KILLED, DUMPED IN RIVER
A THIRD YEAR college student on Sunday night was found dead and floating in a river in Lingayen, Pangasinan. Police said the victim was...
GOV’T AGENCIES TO LIMIT DEPLOYMENT OF FILIPINO SEAMEN SAILING THROUGH GLOBAL HOTSPOTS
THE Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), and concerned manning agencies will further limit the deployment of Filipino seamen to ships...
SENATE OKAYS NEGROS ISLAND REGION ACT
THE long-awaited Negros Island Region (NIR) Act, which bring the provinces of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor together under one administrative region, was...
REPORMA SA PROCUREMENT LAW, TUGON SA KORAPSYON SA GOBYERNO — ANGARA
TIWALA si Senator Sonny Angara na ang kanyang isinusulong na pag-amyenda sa umiiral na Government Procurement Reform Act o GPRA ay magbubunga ng positibong...
BULACAN BUSINESSWOMAN ROBBED OF CASH, GOLD PLATES 
PAMPANGA SOLON THANKS PRESIDENT MARCOS, DPWH FOR FUNDING STO. CRISTO FLYOVER 
2 IMPEACH RAPS VS PBBM SUFFICIENT IN FORM — HOUSE JUSTICE PANEL 
LACSON: ‘THREATS’ TO SENATE LEADERSHIP A ‘CONTINUING CRIME’