MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to start negotiations next week with South Korean firm Miru Systems Co. Ltd. (Miru) on the PHP18 billion contract for its 2025 poll automation project.
In an interview on Friday, Comelec chairp…
MANILA: Around 24 drug manufacturers have expressed readiness to produce anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs, while one pharmaceutical firm has expressed willingness to manufacture human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) medicines.
This was reported to Presiden…
MANILA: Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. stressed the need for the Philippines to reaffirm its alliances with like-minded nations if it wants to uphold the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) amid security challenges in the …
MANILA: More than 500 volunteers from the Philippine College of Criminology (PCCR) organized a coastal cleanup at Baseco Beach in Port Area, Manila on Friday to join the Marcos administration’s “Kalinisan sa Bagong Pilipinas (Cleanliness in the New Ph…
MANILA: At least 41 college students from Agusan del Norte province received a PHP25,000 financial grant each under the Student Monetary Assistance for Recovery and Transition (SMART) program of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
The grant, t…
MANILA: Nineteen new barangays in Northern Mindanao have been declared drug-cleared this month, as PHP3.1 million worth of illegal drugs were seized during police operations this week.
In a statement on Friday, Brig. Gen. Ricardo Layug Jr., Police Re…