On the strength of 268 affirmative votes, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading a measure that seeks to expand the services of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) and at the same time encourage private sector participation in agricultural insurance. Passed...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte received high approval and trust ratings in the latest survey conducted by RP-Mission and Development Foundation Inc. (RPMD) from Feb. 25 to March 8. Mayors and district representatives from the National Capital Region...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) has moved to May 16 this year the sale of the 165-megawatt Casecnan hydropower facility instead of March 28. According to PSALM President Dennis Edward A. Dela Serna, the asset-seller firm has yet to finalize the Water...
SANTA ANA, Cagayan – The Philippine Coast Guard rescued four crew of a distressed motor banca struck by a dolphin in the sea off Palaui Island here on Monday, March 20. The M/B Kiray was traversing the vicinity waters 20 nautical miles north of Palaui Island enroute to Babuyan Claro when its...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian met with New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines Peter Kell to explore possible partnership opportunities to provide innovative ways to implement social welfare services and development interventions for the public....
It is quite embarrassing for women to openly talk about what’s going on in the most intimate part of their body—the vagina. If we don’t openly talk about it, however, we will never get past the suffering from itchiness, redness, burning sensation, soreness, rash, vaginal discharge, and other...
Acne has always been a struggle for a lot of individuals. Some have it in their teens while others get them well into their adulthood. Aside from enduring physical scars, some individuals with acne experience psychological scars too such as such as low confidence and poor self-esteem. Oral...
When visual artist Al Perez was in first grade, he took a thick pencil and a grade 1 pad paper and decided to draw Barasoain Church, an unusual subject for a six-year-old. Little did he know that his sketch of the historical church would be the first of the thousands of churches he would draw and...
One of the leading men of blockbuster releases in the 1990s such as *George of the Jungle* (1997) and the *Mummy* trilogy (1999 to 2008), Brendan Fraser was absent for nine long years in Hollywood. “I started in this business 30 years ago, and things, they didn’t come easily to me. There was a...
Manila 3rd district Rep. Joel Chua is calling on the government to initiate what he called a private sector-led rehabilitation of the San Sebastian Minor Basilica, or San Sebastian Chuch, which he claims is "crumbling" before our eyes. Chua made this appeal in a privilege speech during plenary...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said on Monday, March 20 that a later date for the filing of Certificates of Candidacy (COC) will seriously be considered by the poll body. Garcia made the statement after Sen. Francis Tolentino appealed to the poll body to postpone the...
Citing the European Commission’s Digital Economy and Society Index in 2022, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) revealed that only 20 percent of information and communications technology professionals and graduates are women. This indicates that lesser women are...
