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THE P3.14 billion Land Transportation Management System (LTMS) of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) remains incomplete and is still not fully utilized by the agency due to functionality issues even as payments for core applications and at least 15 contracts have been made.
Ex-president Rody Duterte’s admission of wanton killings during his Davao City mayoralty dented his daughter VP Sara’s political stature.
MANILA, Philippines – The camp of Olympic pole vaulter EJ Obiena reiterated on Thursday that he has never doped, and that he has polygraph and even eye behavior-related lie detector test results to prove it.
MANILA, Philippines — Halos kalahati ang iniangat ng bilang ng influenza-like illnesses na naitala sa bansa sa ngayon kumpara parehong panahon noong isang taon.
COTABATO CITY — Residents of nine more areas shall soon get electronically connected to their local government units via a “digitalization project” of the United Nations Development Programme and the Bangsamoro local government ministry.
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA) has called out the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Social Security System (SSS) over lapses in the implementation of the P51-billion Small Business Wage Subsidy (SBWS) Program, resulting in failure to assist 41 percent or 717,442 target employees who were unable work due to strict community lockdowns at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
CHANDIGARH: Pharma major Venus Remedies on Monday said it has received marketing approval from the Philippines for six key chemotherapy drugs. The approved drugs include bortezomib, cisplatin, doxorubicin, docetaxel, fluorouracil, and paclitaxel, which are crucial for cancer treatment, according to a company statement. With this, Venus Remedies has secured 525 marketing approvals for its oncology products across 76 countries, it said. This achievement marks a significant step towards achieving the company's goal of emerging as the top oncology medicine supplier from India in Southeast Asia, said Saransh Chaudhary, chief executive officer, Venus Medicine Research Centre. "While oncology drugs account for 157 of our 205 marketing authorisations in the ASEAN region, we are banking on these product registrations from the Philippines to pave the way for faster approval of these drugs in other Southeast Asian countries as well," Chaudhary added.
ACHIEVING rice self-sufficiency will have to take a while as population growth continues to outpace productivity improvements, an Agriculture department official said on Monday.