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CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur — A Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company has offered hundreds of job opportunities for residents in Northern Luzon following the opening last week its first connection hub in the country at the extension building of the Stern Mall here.

ILOCOS SUR – A 65-year old coffee grower in this province was adjudged grand champion for second straight year in the Philippine Coffee Quality Competition.

DAGUPAN CITY – Some 123 candidates in the Ilocos region have voluntarily surrendered 149 firearms as of Feb. 24 since the election period started last month.

CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac City — The Ilocos Region has been declared as the first region in the country to be in a state of stable internal peace and security or insurgency-free.

DAGUPAN CITY — The Department of Education (DepEd) in Region 1 said that 77 public schools in the region have started to participate in the expanded phase of face-to-face classes on Monday, Feb. 21.

After receiving a formal complaint alleging sexual harassment that involves one of the faculty members, the Philippine Science High School-Ilocos Region Campus (PSHS-IRC) assured that it has been taking “appropriate actions” to ensure that justice will be “swiftly and properly” served.

More than 1,500 kilometers (km) of roads and a total of 354 bridges have either been built or improved in the Ilocos region over the last five years, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said.

The Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCIEERD) bared Wednesday, June 23, the establishment of the country’s first coastal engineering and management research and development center in Ilocos Region.

Dreaming of dried dinuguang pancit.

A total of 165 scholar-graduates of the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) are expected to be deployed to public schools in Ilocos region as the Department of Education (DepEd) has allocated teaching positions for them for School Year 2021-2022.

Pasuquin Bakery’s bread and biscocho have to be experienced when going to Ilocos.

From Vigan to the northernmost town of Ilocos Norte, Pagudpud

Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is pushing for technology-based innovations in garlic production as the Philippines still imports 90 percent of the country’s demand for this particular farm commodity.

Many people practice gardening not only as a hobby, but as a form of therapy, too. This is the same rationale of Adrian Vincent Alipio, 31, a medical doctor and diplomate of Philippine College of Physicians, who started tending plants in 2015 to pursue a therapeutic hobby. 

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Farmers in the Ilocos region are transforming into Agri-entrepreneurs amid the COVID-19 pandemic through the Innovative Family Enterprise Development (IFED) program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Region 1.

LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte -The provincial government of Ilocos Norte had launched the buy-farmer products program to help the farmers sell their products amid the COVID-19 pandemic.