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The Cavite Extension Project of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) is now more than 50 percent complete and is expected to open for partial operations by the end of 2021, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said.

The student regent and central student council of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) pushed back on the move of a youth party-list representative calling for the termination of an agreement barring State forces in their school.

Student groups from different universities backed the University of the Philippines (UP) and condemned the decision of the Department of National Defense (DND) to scrap an agreement that prohibits state forces from entering UP campuses without notifying school officials.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said on Tuesday that there is no threat of a tsunami in the country following the magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Argentina.

University of the Philippines (UP) President Danilo Concepcion expressed "grave concern" over the unilateral termination of its long-time agreement with the Department of National Defense (DND) which keeps state forces from entering UP campuses.

The Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT 3) has set another record-high number of trains deployed in its rail line history, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) announced on Monday.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is continuously spreading across different regions in the country as the reproduction rate remains above 1, an expert from the OCTA Research Team said.

State-run pension fund Social Security System (SSS) announced on Saturday that it already released the second batch of pensions for January 2021 through its checkless disbursement channels.

Cloudy skies with chances of rain will prevail over Luzon and parts of Visayas this weekend due to the tail-end of a frontal system and the northeast monsoon that continue to affect the country.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has upgraded to magnitude 4.8 the earthquake that hit Calatagan town in Batangas on Saturday morning.

Cold weather is expected to persist in Luzon over the weekend, while rains will likely prevail across the country due to the northeast monsoon and the tail-end of a frontal system, the state weather bureau said.

More students can soon continue their education in college as the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) vowed to increase the number of scholarship beneficiaries in the Indigenous Peoples (IP) communities.

Brace for cooler days ahead as the northeast monsoon or "amihan" continues to persist in the coming months, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said.

The OCTA Research Team urged the government to increase its testing, contact tracing, and isolation efforts to further prevent the spread of the new and more infectious COVID-19 variant that has been detected in the country.

The COVID-19 reproduction rate is still above one in Metro Manila, which means the virus causing the dreaded disease is being actively transmitted in the community, an expert from the OCTA Research Team said Thursday.

The Light Rail Transit Line 2 (LRT-2) is set to resume its Santolan to Anonas run by the first quarter of 2021, more than a year since a fire shut down the operation of the three stations.

More than 54,000 students from private colleges and universities across the country have already received the 5,000 cash assistance under the subsidy program implemented by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), an official said on Wednesday.

The Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) will launch next week its own contact tracing web application to upgrade the railway’s manual contact tracing to a digitized process as part of its efforts to further prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in the rail sector.