MANILA: The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) urged private distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) to tap the “Anti-Bill Shock” Lending Program of the Land Bank of the Philippines.
In a news r…
MANILA: Senator Jinggoy Estrada has called for a new round of salary increase spread over four years for approximately 1.9 million government employees.
Estrada recently filed a bill for Salary Standardization Law (SSL) VI, outlined under Senate Bill…
Officials from various government agencies committed assistance to the 72 farmers who graduated on Friday from the 14-week organic agriculture training provided by a major mall.
The farmers are from Camp 4 Tuba, Benguet; Bayabas Sablan, Benguet; an…
Red tide has remained in two bays in Samar provinces this week, largely due to changing weather patterns, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said Friday.
The BFAR regional office said in its latest advisory that the
Pro-Palestinian protests on US college campuses continue, with over 2,000 arrests in the past three weeks, with prominent universities like Columbia, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and Yale, according to media reports.
Amid nationwi…
MANILA: The Philippines has a huge potential to be a bigger player in the global horticulture market, Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said on Friday, noting that the government will ramp up efforts to increase product…
