The four-year partnership between the United States and the Philippines to combat online sexual exploitation and child labor trafficking has resulted in the arrests of 97 perpetrators and successful identification of 312 victims, a joint US and Philippines report said Thursday, April 29. Department...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday urged the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to “assume a friendly approach” to community pantries instead threatening to halt their activities. De Lima said the DILG should put to task barangay officials to ensure the proper...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. is still hoping that the United States, one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, will be able to spare the Philippines and other countries with its excess coronavirus vaccines. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. (DFA) Locsin made...
After enduring years of intense scrutiny under the Duterte administration, the mining sector is now at the receiving end of a series of surprisingly positive policy decisions and considerations. The government is now considering lifting the ban on open-pit mining method more than two...
An administrative order implementing the Local Government Reform Project (LGRP) has been signed by President Duterte. President Duterte with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III (File photo: Malacañang) In Administrative Order No. 40, the President created an Interagency Governing Board (IGB)...
Motorists may get to use the much -awaited Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge this coming July, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) bared. OPENING SOON-- The Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge that links the cities of Mandaluyong and Makati is set for completion in July 2021. (Photo courtesy of DPWH)...
If Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade would have his way, he would instantly suspend agency personnel caught red-handed in activities of corruption. DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (Photo courtesy of DOTr Facebook Page) But as a government agency, the DOTr still has to follow...
Requiring workers to get a coronavirus vaccine could be a possibility in case of a low turnout in the immunization drive, according to a government adviser. (Photo by Martin BUREAU / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has appealed, however, to the...
A traceability system that will enforce the strict accreditation of livestock and poultry traders and retailers in the country will be established in an attempt to curb potential price manipulation in the meat and poultry sectors, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said. (Photo courtesy of the...
The numbers of recommended vaccine doses administered to children dropped across the Philippines, which health experts fear could lead to an outbreak of other diseases amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (Pixabay) According to Dr. Kim Patrick Tejano, Program Manager of the National...
United States President Joseph Biden has nominated Filipino-American Gina Ortiz Jones for undersecretary of the Air Force at the Department of Defense, the White House announced on Wednesday (Tuesday in Washington, D.C.) on the eve of the Biden administration’s first 100 days in office....
The Department of Health (DOH) and Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) should create guidelines for an automatic travel ban to and from countries with high coronavirus (COVID-19) infections or new variants. This way, Senator Risa Hontiveros said, the Philippine government could thwart the potential...
