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MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros wants to realign the P10 million allocation for Vice President Sara Duterte’s children’s book “Isang Kaibigan”, saying that it was inappropriate for an official to use public funds to publish a book.
MAJOR players in the Philippine hospitality industry remain optimistic despite challenges in recovering to pre-pandemic levels. This was revealed in the first Philippine Hotel Investment Outlook Survey, an initiative of Leechiu Property Consultants (LPC) and the Philippine Hotel Owners Association Inc. (PHOA).
IBA, Zambales — Some 1,000 farming families and fisherfolk received on Monday a total of P10 million in cash assistance from the provincial government of Zambales for losses they incurred due to the effects of the El Niño phenomenon.
Taiwan showed off its missile firepower on Tuesday, August 20, launching a battery of surface-to-air missiles in front of reporters during a visit to a sensitive test site on a remote part of the island's southeastern coast. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has complained of stepped up Chinese military activity as Beijing seeks to assert its sovereignty claims, and Taipei has been strengthening its deterrence abilities. At the Jiupeng base in Taiwan's Pingtung County, the military test fired both US-made Patriot and Taiwan-made Sky Bow III missiles into the skies as dawn broke, while a warship off the coast fired a RIM-66 Standard missile. Jiupeng is also where the government-run weapons developer National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology tests new missiles, like the longer-range version of the Hsiung Feng which is designed to hit targets deep in China.
THE Department of Education (DepEd) said that it aims to provide expanded health care benefits to public school teachers nationwide once the increased medical allowance for government employees is implemented by 2025.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has notified the Interpol regarding the case of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo.
TIAONG, Quezon—The Department of Agriculture on Saturday concluded a series of consultations in Calabarzon to refine protocols that will govern the movement of healthy hogs amid a resurgence of the dreaded African Swine Fever (ASF), particularly in Batangas.
A statue of the late National Artist Fernando Poe Jr. was unveiled in Batangas on his 85th birth anniversary.