Screengrab from Team Lakay's YouTube Team Lakay recently extended assistance through a rice donation project for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Balacbac, Baguio City. Wearing protective equipment, the Igorot warriors helped in manpower and personally handed bags of rice to the disabled...
From its original request of a P280-billion annual budget for next year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) may only end up with P129 billion for 2021, already including the portion of the stimulus package it has been requesting supposedly for this year. Agriculture Secretary William Dar...
The Bureau of Customs (BoC) was told to speed up its audit of rice import transactions in 2019, as well as the collection of unpaid tariffs and penalties from erring importers, so it could look into more recent cases of undervaluation in rice importation. This was after the agency reported that it...
As the prices of palay sank to as low as P12 per kilogram (/kg) in some areas, Senator Risa Hontiveros agreed there is a need to amend the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) and promised to convince the law's author and fellow senator, Cynthia Villar, about it....
The Philippine government was urged to buy all locally produced palay as farm-gate prices sank to as low as P12.50 per kilogram (/kg), a move that may cost around P152 billion or a whopping 2,000 percent increase from the current budget of the National Food Authority (NFA) for its palay...
Naomi Osaka of Japan walks on the court before her Women's Singles final match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus on Day Thirteen of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 12, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images...
Naomi Osaka of Japan celebrates with the trophy after winning her Women's Singles final match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus on Day Thirteen of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 12, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York City. Al Bello/Getty...
To fully transform the agriculture sector, the Department of Agriculture (DA) must be given a higher budget, ideally more than P100 billion, that is proportional to the sector’s contribution to the country’s total gross domestic product (GDP), a top DA official said. Farm workers thresh rice...
'He's up there with all the shooters,' says Rice For NBA legend Glen Rice, PBA great Allan Caidic, known as 'The Triggerman," ranks in the same group as Larry Bird and Steph Curry in terms of shooting. (PBA Images) NBA legend Glen Rice continues to have high respect for his PBA counterpart Allan...
Kai Sotto’s G-League coach Brian Shaw along with fellow NBA champion Glen Rice will take part in a virtual event dubbed as NBA Republika Playoffs Party on Aug. 17. Kai Sotto's G League coach Brian Shaw (Wikimedia Images) Shaw and Rice, who were part of Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant’s first...
