Since its launch in 2023, the Philippine Book Festival (PBF), led by the National Book Development Board, has helped bring Filipino-authored books, educational materials, and creative works closer to the masses. The festival has drawn more than 120,000 visitors and, through its partnership with the...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The first meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Thursday was an early test of whether one of his marquee foreign policy initiatives can gain broad support and advance the shaky ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. Members pledged $7 billion in aid for...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that members of his newly created Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilization and police forces for the territory. The pledges will...
US President Donald Trump has reportedly offered President Marcos for the Philippines to join the Board of Peace. Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel "Babes" Romualdez said Thursday, Feb. 5, that Trump, through the White House, sent Marcos a personal letter, inviting him to join the...
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday inaugurated his Board of Peace to lead efforts at maintaining a ceasefire in Israel 's war with Hamas, insisting “everyone wants to be a part” of the body he said could eventually rival the United Nations — despite many...
Morocco 's King Mohammed VI has accepted US President Donald Trump 's invitation to become one of the founding members of the US-led Peace Board that is committed to peace efforts in the Middle East. Rabat welcomed Trump 's invitation for His Majesty to be part of the Peace Board...
A proposed measure in the Senate seeks to mandate the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by Filipino passengers who were deferred or denied boarding due to unjustified and prolonged pre-departure procedures of the Bureau of Immigration (BI). Senator Raffy Tulfo, who chairs the Senate...
Finance Secretary Frederick D. Go assumed his seat on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) policy-making Monetary Board on Thursday, Jan. 8. Go, who was designated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the Cabinet representative to the board, was sworn in by BSP Governor Eli Remolona Jr. at the...
Executive Secretary Ralph G. Recto is set to recommend his successor as the government’s representative on the powerful seven-member Monetary Board (MB) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), naming newly appointed Finance Secretary Frederick D. Go for the influential post. Recto, who...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) on Monday, November 17, released the full schedule of licensure examinations for Fiscal Year 2026, including the opening and deadline of application filing, examination dates, and the target release of results. In a Facebook post, the PRC reminded...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is expected to deliver a quarter-point interest rate cut next month, but an economist warned the move would not restore lost government credibility or offset the impact of corruption amid expectations of further economic slowdown. Union Bank of the Philippines...
TACURONG CITY – Police are hunting four men who shot Taharuddin Nul Mlok, a former Maguindanao del Sur board member, on a busy street here Monday morning. The Tacurong City police office said the shooting occurred around 10:45 a.m. in front of a convenience store in Barangay New Carmen. Mlok, 51,...
