BAGUIO CITY: The Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Baguio has expanded voter registration efforts for next year’s midterm elections by bringing it to various schools and communities here.
John Paul Martin, the city election officer, said the voter re…
Nine rural banks and a bank consortium in the Philippines will receive grants from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) amounting to USD655,000 to implement digital transformation solutions to better service underserved and unbanked sectors.
In a statem…
MANILA: The Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC), which governs the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), will likely make its first investment in the renewable energy sector by the end of the year.
“I can only talk about sectors because we’ve got non-d…
The Department of Health on Monday warned the public anew against online advertisements of commercial products, including milk and other supplements, claiming to be endorsed by the department.
In a statement, the agency reiterated that the endorseme…
MANILA: Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda on Monday said workers in the private sector deserve the proposed PHP100 minimum wage increase as the last legislated national wage hike was 35 years ago.
Legarda said the last legislated national wa…
Two persons died in a fire that hit a residential and six boarding houses Sunday afternoon in Barangay San Nicolas in La Paz district, leaving 173 others homeless.
The fire that started at 4:15 p.m. gutted seven houses, the
