Government officials, led by Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo, on Saturday welcomed 17 Filipino evacuees at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The group arrived past 6:30 p.m. at Terminal 3 in Pasay City via Qatar Airw…

The Liga ng mga Barangay (LnB) in Antique will be conducting home visits to convince parents to let their children avail of “Chikiting Ligtas’ or the supplemental immunization for measles and rubella (MR) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) during the entire…

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Saturday said a contingency plan is in place to respond to the looming El Niño that experts forecast to occur in the coming months. DILG Central Office Disaster Information Coordination Cen…

Aside from offering job opportunities, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will put up over 20 ‘Kadiwa ng Pangulo para sa Manggagawa’ outlets to mark Labor Day on May 1. In a statement on Saturday, the DOLE said 21 Kadiwa stalls will be at t…

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is ready to render assistance to returning Overseas Filipinos (OF) from conflict-torn Sudan. The eight Filipinos fled from Khartoum, Sudan and arrived in Greece onboard a Greek military aircraft….

The province of Antique will soon have a PHP970-million three-story government center here to be funded out of the provincial government savings for at least a decade. Antique Governor Rhodora Cadiao credited the provincial government employees’ prude…

The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to transfer generator sets to Occidental Mindoro from Eastern Visayas to help ease the province’s power woes. At a Saturday news forum in Quezon City, DOE Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella said the generator…

Seven New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, two of them already in their 60s, have withdrawn support from the communist group as they surrendered to authorities in Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. The Area Police Command-Western Mindanao (APC-WM) said in a stat…