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Ilocos Norte sustains 99% employment rate

LAOAG CITY: Ilocos Norte continues to maintain a 99 percent employment rate, placing the Provincial Employment Service Office (PESO) as the best performer in Region

Marcos thumbs down illegal parking fine increase

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has revoked a provision in a Metro Manila Council (MMC) resolution seeking to increase the fine for illegal parking in the metropolis from PHP1,000 up to PHP4,000.

In a short video message posted on social me…

PLDT expands deployment of forest monitoring system in Palawan

MANILA: Telecommunications firm PLDT has joined stakeholders in the government and private sectors in the deployment of a monitoring system in the forests of Taytay, Palawan to identify illegal activities in the area such as illegal logging.

In a sta…

Australian-American sex offender barred from entering PH

MANILA: An Australian-American national wanted by authorities in the United States for various sex offenses was intercepted and barred from entering the country, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported on Wednesday.

In a statement, BI Commissioner No…

MOHAMMAD AMIRULFARIS PLANNED TO BUY A HOUSE – FRIEND

SEREMBAN, Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM) Lt Commander Mohammad Amirulfaris Mohamad Marzukhi, who perished in the helicopter crash at the TLDM Lumut Base yesterday morning, had intended to buy a house in Perak for his family.

His good friend, Lt Command…

National awards honour 84 technical innovations

Hanoi: Eighty-four works were honoured with the 17th National Technical Innovation Awards at a ceremony held in Hanoi on April 23.

Phan Xuan Dung, President of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA) and Chairman of the Vietn…

Completed legal framework helps better manage virtual assets

Hanoi: Vietnam needs to complete a legal framework to better manage virtual assets (VAs) as well as virtual asset service providers (VASPs), experts said at an annual forum on Blockchain and AI held by the Vietnam Blockchain Association in Hanoi on Ap…