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PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. yesterday directed the Department of Education (DepEd) to exert more efforts to improve the “low ranking and below the minimum level performance” of Filipino students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. and Indonesian President Joko Widodo yesterday agreed to continue to strengthen cooperation between the Philippines and Indonesia in several areas such as defense and security amid regional challenges, including territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. is willing to sit down with his predecessor, former President Rodrigo Duterte, to discuss the issues surrounding the Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI), Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil said yesterday.
PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. and Indonesian President Joko Widodo are set to discuss progress in relations between the Philippines and Indonesia relations next week during the latter’s three-day official visit to the country, Malacañang said yesterday.
OVER 2.7 million children, between ages two and five years old, benefitted from the different community and school-based supplementary feeding programs (SFPs) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and its partners in 2023.
THE Marcos government seized around P10.41 billion worth of illegal drugs from January to December 2023 and cleared more than 27,000 barangays of illegal drugs, a PNP report to President Marcos Jr. revealed.
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will scale up the implementation of its “Walang Gutom 2027” food assistance program and increase the number of its beneficiaries to 300,000 poor families by May of this year.
DROUGHT and dry spell in parts of the country due to the El Niño phenomenon will peak in April 2024, or a month earlier than initially predicted, Science and Technology Secretary Renato Solidum said yesterday.