A South Korean national, who disguised himself as a Filipino by presenting a 'fake' birth certificate, was arrested by operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in Davao City. In a statement, the BI identified the arrested foreigner as Kim Jinkoon, 58, a fugitive from South Korea whose passport...
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Ted Herbosa (MANILA BULLETIN) Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Ted Herbosa has told congressmen that the Covid-19 bivalent vaccines donated by Lithuania to the Philippine are nearly used up. Herbosa made this...
Bagong Henerasyon Party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera (Rep. Herrera's office) A ranking solon from the House minority bloc has expressed frustration over the Department of Health's (DOH) failure to get private sector partners in healthcare, mostly due to...
BUTUAN CITY – A magnitude-5.1 earthquake rocked Davao Occidental province before dawn on Friday morning, September 8. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the tremor was recorded at 3:20 a.m. and its epicenter was 280 kilometers (kms) southeast of...
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Ted Herbosa Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Ted Herbosa says he is "embarrassed as a Filipino" whenever he compares Philippine health statistics to that of the country’s neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian...
(MANILA BULLETIN) ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro is prodding the Department of Health (DOH) to fill the 4,000 vacant plantilla positions for nurses in government-run hospitals with the over 13,000 contractual nurses in the country. DOH Secretary Ted...
BUTUAN CITY – A magnitude-4.4 earthquake rocked Davao Occidental province on Wednesday morning, September 6. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the tremor was recorded at 8:07 a.m. and its epicenter was 320 kilometers (kms) southeast of Balut Island,...
DAVAO CITY – Office of the Presidential Assistant for Mindanao-Eastern (OPAMINE) Leo Tereso A. Magno vowed to enhance progress and peace and order and security in the Davao region. OPAMINE Magno (center). (FB) Among the appointed Cabinet Officers for Regional Development and Security...
DAVAO CITY (PNA) – A total of 47,637 aspirants for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in the Davao region filed their Certificates of Candidacy from August 28 to September 2. In a press briefing on Monday, Gay Enumerables, Commission on Elections-Davao region (Comelec-11) assistant...
BUTUAN CITY – A magnitude-4.7 earthquake rocked Davao Occidental before dawn on Monday, September 4. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the tremor was recorded at 2:15 a.m. and its epicenter was 72 kilometers (kms) southeast of Balut Island, municipality...
DAVAO CITY – The city government marked on September 1, Friday, the seventh anniversary of the Roxas Night Market bombing on Roxas Ave. here in 2016. Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte led the commemoration for the victims and their families and survivors. Fifteen persons were killed and...
The silent surge of electricity will get charged up into the transport fleets of the power distribution business units of Aboitiz Power Corporation, as the conglomerate lines up the electric vehicle (EV) shift of about 400 of its service cars and motorcycles. Anton Mari Perdices, chief operating...