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The Jalaur River Multi-Purpose Project (JRMP II), one of the biggest agricultural infrastructure projects to be completed within President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s term, is pivotal in realizing the government’s efforts to strengthen food security and curb inflation.
MANILA, Philippines — It was during the term of former president Rodrigo Duterte that the confidential and intelligence expenses of the Office of the President (OP) skyrocketed to billions of pesos, based on figures from the Commission on Audit (COA).
MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos led a rice distribution event in Capiz yesterday with “longtime friend,” opposition Liberal Party stalwart and former senator Mar Roxas, triggering speculation about the latter’s possible return to public service under the current administration.
Muslim rebels and the Philippine government have signed a preliminary peace pact in a bid to end a 40-year conflict that has cost 120,000 lives.The deal, signed in Manila’s Malacanang presidential palace by government negotiator Marvic Leonen and his counterpart from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Mohagher Iqbal, grants Muslims an autonomous region called Bangsamoro in the south.It is the area of the largely Catholic country where Muslims are in the majority.The framework agreement is intended to lead to a final peace settlement by 2016.
More than 100 people are thought to have died in in the Philippines in Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded. Hundreds have been injured and hundreds of thousands displaced and forced to flee their homes.With communications and roads still cut off, Captain John Andrews, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority, said he had received «reliable information»from his staff that more than 100 bodies were lying in the streets of the city of Tacloban on the hardest-hit Leyte Island.
MANILA, Philippines — Work in all offices under the executive branch will be suspended from 3 p.m. today to encourage Filipinos to celebrate the 31st National Family Week.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — In 2012, the Department of Education (DepEd) launched the K-12 Basic Education Program.