MANILA: The government is eyeing to establish an additional 179 medical specialty centers by 2028, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday.

During the launching of the country’s first human lung transplant of the Lung Center of the Philippi…

BACOLOD: Average residential power rates of all three distribution utilities in Negros Occidental increased in January, mainly due to higher generation and transmission charges.

The Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (Noneco), Central Negros Electr…

MANILA: Police authorities arrested two Taiwanese nationals engaged in illegal activities in Makati City, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said on Tuesday.

In a report, NCRPO director Maj. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said the sus…

PRINCESA: The Provincial Health Office (PHO) here said the 16 hospitals managed by the provincial government in various municipalities have served numerous patients in 2023 and aims to further improve the delivery of health services to the people this…

MANILA: Workers in government who have been in the service for at least 10 years and have acquired relevant knowledge and skills but do not possess the appropriate civil service eligibility are encouraged to apply for the Grant of Career Service Eligi…

DUMAGUETE: The National Food Authority (NFA) in Negros Oriental on Tuesday assured the public of sufficient rice buffer stock amid the onset of the dry spell caused by the El Niño phenomenon in the province.

‘As of this time, we have 10,000 bags of b…

NAIROBI: In a groundbreaking move to address the persistent threat of malaria, Cameroon on Monday started the world’s first vaccination campaign against the disease.

At a press briefing, Mohammed Abdulaziz, head of Disease Control at the Africa Centr…

ANTARCTICA: The Bulgarian military research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) has dropped anchor in the western bay of Half Moon Island in Antarctica.

Geologist Kalin Naydenov and mountaineers Doychin Boyanov and Kiril Doskov were able, with t…