Paris promised, so Marrakech must deliver. Oh, maybe Bonn, or Katowice, or Madrid will deliver. Oops, let’s try this again. Paris promised, and Glasgow will deliver. Still, no? Okay, Sharm El-Sheikh will deliver. Okay, maybe this time we’ll get it right; Dubai must deliver. It seems like...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is eyeing to seek assistance from Japan or two other international financial institutions to bankroll three major railways project in Luzon and Mindanao. DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista said Japan, through its Japan International Cooperation Agency...
For over a decade, Project Wheelchair has been helping Filipinos with special health needs live their best lives through its initiative. Its mission continues to this day as it gathers noted Filipino chefs to support its goals through a charity dinner to be held on Nov. 19 at the Champagne Room of...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has awarded the livelihood program that benefited Indigenous Peoples (IP) as the construction of the Iloilo mega dam project is ongoing. CONSTRUCTION ongoing at the Jalaur High Dam, one of the three dams being built in Calinog town,...
San Jose del Monte City lone district Rep. Florida "Rida" Robes (center) (Facebook) A ranking congresswoman is pursuing a measure that would help delinquent beneficiaries of the government’s housing program keep their houses without fear of being ejected. ...
BACOLOD CITY – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will lead the turnover of the socialized housing project dubbed Yuhum Residences here on December 20. MAYOR Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez accompanies Secretary Jose Acuzar of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (DHSUD) during a...
By YVETTE TAN Arnold Abear, 43, from Bagong Silang, Maramag, Bukidnon is a farmer who has found success in planting coffee. Arnold Abear and his daughter. (Nestle Philippines) The former rubber farmer switched crops in 2008, after rubber prices dropped during the financial crisis that same...
The long-time dream of the country to have a single-connected grid nationwide may take a little longer, as one leg of the infrastructure development toward the concretization of the P51.3 billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP) is being impeded by a temporary restraining order (TRO)...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the government is looking to secure funding for P83 billion Mindanao Railway project in the first quarter next year. This came after the country backed out from a financing deal with China to fund the railway project. Further, Finance Secretary Benjamin E....
Climate-vulnerable countries have lost an estimated 525 billion USD over the past two decades due to climate change limiting economic growth, hampering development gains, and making it harder for communities to thrive. This daunting reality is compounded by rising external debt—a total of 686.3...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited on Saturday, Nov. 4, the ongoing construction of the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP), a mega railway system funded by his government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Jaime...
DAVAO CITY – The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) aims to plant and nurture at least three million native tree species and fruit trees near Philippine Eagle nesting sites in three years under its Regenerative Agroforestry for Indigenous Well-Being and Nature or Project RegAIN. THE Philippine...
