STOCKHOLM — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow is a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Ramsdell is a scientific adviser for Sonoma...
The Quezon City government launched on Monday, Oct. 6, a new initiative to strengthen and advance its road safety programs. The initiative is a collaboration with public interest law group ImagineLaw, and forms part of the local government unit 's (LGU) ongoing efforts to make city roads...
The city government of Pasay is offering a range of skills training programs to equip residents with practical knowledge that can help them secure employment or start their own businesses. Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano invites interested residents to join the community-based training by...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has joined forces with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to establish a harmonized and unified data system that will track learners across all levels of education in the Philippines....
The Pasig City government gave due recognition to its barangays and city offices and departments which have displayed outstanding performance in promoting gender equality and development goals and initiatives. In the recently concluded Gender and Development (GAD) Summit 2025 spearheaded by the...
The city government of Las Piñas launched its pet microchipping program to promote responsible pet ownership and a rabies-free city. Las Piñas Mayor April Aguilar said the program, spearheaded by the City Veterinary Services Office (CVSO) last Oct.3, has helped 60 fur parents register their fur...
Former Taguig mayor Lino Cayetano is supporting the call of his brother, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, for elected officials to resign and for the holding of a snap election but said it should start at the local level in the city. “I support this proposal. I agree with my brother Alan and ask that...
QUITO, Ecuador — Protesters both for and against Ecuador ’s President Daniel Noboa rallied in the capital Quito on Sunday after a state of emergency took effect in 10 provinces. Anti-government demonstrations began two weeks ago, organized by the country’s largest Indigenous group, in...
WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what is about to be a six-day shutdown — with President Donald Trump saying that layoffs are occurring. Asked on...
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump has decided not to let the government shutdown interfere with a stop in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to salute the Navy as it celebrates its 250th anniversary. “I believe, ‘THE SHOW MUST GO ON!’” Trump posted Friday night on his social media site, Truth...
President Donald Trump moved to deploy the National Guard in another city Saturday by authorizing 300 troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago, where the government said Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at someone who tried to run them over. White House...
LONDON— British police will get stronger powers to restrict repeated protests, the government said Sunday, after almost 500 people were arrested at a demonstration in support of a banned pro-Palestinian group. The Home Office said police forces will be able to consider the “cumulative impact of...
