BUTUAN CITY: The Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Caraga Region (DSWD-13) started Tuesday the release of the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens Program (SocPen) this year.

‘Some 3,351 indigent senior citizens from the town…

BOLINAO: More than the usual sightseeing and leisure tourism, the local government of Bolinao is eyeing to offer an environmental awareness and educational tour eyed to promote an island here as a tourism hub while sustaining and protecting the aquama…

MANILA: The Philippine economy grew by 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, bringing the full-year 2023 growth to 5.6 percent.

While the growth did not settle within the government’s 6 to 7 percent target and was lower than the 7.6 percent…

MANILA: The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion for reconsideration filed by three former officials of National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) convicted last October for malversation and graft for the alleged misuse of former South Cotabato Rep. Ar…

BUTUAN CITY: The members of the Cagdianao Farmers and Fisherfolk Marketing Cooperative (CAFFIMACO) had their first bountiful harvest of bangus (milkfish) from their production project on Tuesday seven months after its implementation.

The Dinagat Isla…

MANILA: The chairperson of the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture on Wednesday said the Department of Education’s (DepEd) school-based feeding program would require a whole-of-government approach to be an effective intervention to address …

COTABATO CITY: Two service-oriented offices in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for a PHP72.5 million technology-based data gathering system to ensure accuracy in identifying social…

CEBU CITY: Around 300,000 indigent senior citizens in Central Visayas have benefitted from the PHP1.8 billion monthly social pension program of the national government.

Shalaine Marie Lucero, regional director of the Department of Social Welfare and …