President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. will not be meeting the Filipino community in China due to the Covid-19 situation in that country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Marcos will leave for China Tuesday, Jan. 3, for his first state visit there. During the...
DAVAO CITY – It is a blissful holiday season for the indigenous people of Sitio Panaga in Barangay Colosas, Paquibato District, here as they finally have access to a basic water system after several years of struggling with water scarcity. Apo Agua Infrastuctura Inc. (Apo Agua) and the Davao City...
Heroes of pandemic. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. meets the Filipino community in Belgium on Dec. 13, 2022. (PH time) He was with First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, House Speaker Martin Romualdez, and Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno. (Malacañang...
Filipino health professionals are in favor of the proposed establishment of Philippine Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, said Dr. Benito Atienza, Vice President 3 of Philippine Federation of Professionals Association. “Noong ako ay Presidente ng Philippine Medical Association...
BAGUIO CITY – The City Social Welfare and Development Office reported that some 648 former drug personalities completed their six-month community-based rehabilitation program that allowed them to be immersed back with the mainstream society and live normal lives. Social Worker Officer Ellen...
“No more hungry Filipinos.” That was what President Marcos told the Filipino community in Thailand when he talked about his response every time he was asked what he was aspiring for. In meeting with the Filipino community after participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has pledged to improve the working conditions in the Philippines so Filipinos would no longer venture abroad to seek better opportunities. President Marcos meets with the Filipino community in Cambodia on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022 before he left for Manila...
It may surprise many people that there is such a day as “World Kindness Day” – and that is today, Nov. 13. In the Filipino culture, kindness is a value that is known by many names, one of them “bayanihan.” Since the Philippines is located on the typhoon belt, where typhoons blow in at...
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels. As the world adapts to the worsening effects of climate change, the agriculture sector is exposed as one of the most vulnerable sectors, if not the most. According to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, damages incurred due to natural disasters totaled P463...
The Philippines' vaccination certificate, VaxCertPH, is now recognized in European countries as proof of inoculation against Covid-19. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), VaxCertPH is now recognized by the European Union Digital Covid-10 Certificate (EU DCC) system to be used...
Before Jocelyn Mamar became a farmer, she was a highly successful palengke (wet market) entrepreneur. Jocelyn Mamar is the owner of John and Marga Nursery Farm, which has farms in Davao del Sur, Cavite, and Bacolod. While the farms grow coconut, mango, coffee, bananas, durian, mangosteen,...
Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte highlighted on Thursday, Aug. 4 the need to establish what he described as a "heightened community-based public awareness campaign about monkeypox". (Unsplash) According to the Mindanao solon, having such information drive on monkeypox will help government...
