Laguna bested Team Paralympic, 12-9, for its ninth straight win in the third conference of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) online tournament Wednesday. Grandmaster Banjo Barcenilla powered the Laguna Heroes with victories in the blitz and rapid duels against Asian Para...
SM Supermalls, ARISE Philippines and Korean Embassy celebrate International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction SM Supermalls, in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Philippines and ARISE Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies—Philippines, hosted a webinar...
Intensive care unit (ICU) beds and vaccine cold storage units were donated by the United States (US) to Palawan to help in the province's response against the coronavirus pandemic. TIMELY AID-- The US Indo-Pacific Command has donated intensive care unit (ICU) beds and vaccine cold storage units to...
The Korean Embassy in the Philippines and its partners urged the Philippine government, donor countries, private sectors and international organizations to address the pressing issues in the agriculture sector in the country in the run-up to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the...
The League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) appealed to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) on Wednesday, Oct. 20, to defer the expansion of the alert level system outside Metro Manila due to the supposed lack of preparation of the...
Not even half of the coronavirus vaccine doses funded by the World Bank have arrived in the Philippines, the Washington-based multilateral institution reported on Tuesday, Oct. 19. In a statement, Ndiame Diop, World Bank country director for the Philippines said only 4.73 million doses of vaccines...
The National Museum of the Philippines is hosting the ASEAN Museum Congress 2021, an online international conference of museum professionals and heritage stakeholders, from Oct. 26 to 28, 2021. With the theme, “Museum Interpretation in Times of Disaster: Museum Education, Exhibitions and Public...
Some 150 permanent houses were recently given to residents in Marawi City by the Japan Government in a bid to help the war-torn city recover from the impacts of the deadly 2017 siege. NEW HOMES-- A total of 150 housing units were built in Barangay Kilala, Marawi City for displaced families during...
The Office of the Student Regent (OSR), along with other student bodies and organizations of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), expressed full support to Vice President Leni Robredo on her presidential bid in the 2022 election. Vice President Leni Robredo (ALI VICOY / MANILA...
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III urged workers to report employers that are imposing a "no vaccine, no salary" policy as he reiterated that the practice is illegal. DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III (Photo from DOLE Facebook page) In a virtual media briefing...
A House of Representatives committee has backed a Philippine bar topnotcher in seeking the repeal of an antiquated law on property ownership which the proponent had described to be of “no value.” Rep. Xavier Jesus Romualdo The House Committee on Revision of Laws recommended the passage of House...
More than 500 television script writers and teacher-broadcasters will be trained under a recently-forged pact between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Education (DepEd) to create gender-fair and inclusive educational episodes for DepEd TV. (Photo...
