(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) “Right now it’s official, we are in a surge dito sa (here in the) National Capital Region (NCR).” OCTA Research fellow Prof. Ranjit Rye made this assessment on Tuesday, July 27, as the independent research group reported that the average number of new...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. and British Foreign Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs Dominic Raab spoke over the phone to discuss the prospects of enhanced cooperation in time for the celebration of this year’s 75 th anniversary of the...
DAVAO CITY – In a bid to contain the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, Region 13 (Caraga region) has established border checkpoints and required travelers from Region 10 (Northern Mindanao) to show some documents to be granted entry to the region. The Department of Health (DOH) had...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has forged partnership with the local government unit (LGU) of Ilagan City to fabricate the Hybrid Electric Road Train (HERT). (DOST Region II Facebook page) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said the partnership between DOST-II and...
Illustration of coronavirus / File Photo One of the new Delta variant cases reported earlier was not a local case in the Bicol region, the Department of Health (DOH)-Bicol clarified on Thursday, July 22. The DOH announced 12 new cases of Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) virus,...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has logged “significant improvement” on farmers’ agriculture and aquaculture-based enterprises in Central Luzon following the implementation of its Consultancy on Agricultural Productivity Enhancement (CAPE) program. (Photo from DOST-Mimaropa) A...
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces uses a megaphone to remind shoppers to practice social distancing during a government imposed enhanced quarantine as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Manila....
Aside from being the country's "salad bowl," the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is also a model against climate change. (Photo courtesy of the DA) Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar said the region up north is indeed a strategic region that serves as a model in averting...
France has assured the Philippines that as a permanent member and president of the United Nations Security Council, it will perform its role to ensure that international law, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and sovereignty of its regional partners are...
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque explained that the National Capital Region (NCR) was placed under the normal general community quarantine (GCQ) because of the local government units' (LGUs') improvement in responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Manila Bulletin File Photo Roque made the...
President Duterte has approved placing the National Capital Region (NCR) back to the normal general community quarantine (GCQ) until the end of the month, along with 29 other areas in the country as their existing coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine classification expired on July 15. In a video...
Malacañang said the recommendation of the government's pandemic task force was ready and that they were only waiting for the appeal of the metropolis's local chief executives. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement days before the existing general community...
