VIENTIANE: The Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Department of Livestock and Fisheries recently reported an H5N1 bird flu outbreak in a Vientiane market.

The Lao centre for animal disease research said, of the 65 poultry samples it received …

ILOILO: Iloilo City will celebrate the Chinese New Year as an acknowledgment of the significant contribution of the Filipino-Chinese community on the city’s development.

Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, in a briefing on Monday, said they started the celebratio…

TACLOBAN: Amid rising fuel prices, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will extend PHP42.48 million fuel subsidy to at least 14,162 fisherfolk in the Eastern Visayas region this year.

Christine Gresola, information officer of the BFA…

MANILA: Fair weather and isolated rain showers will prevail across the archipelago, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Wednesday.

“We expect that a huge part of the country will experience a…

MANILA: Speaker Martin Romualdez on Monday called for an immediate congressional briefing from the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on the recent cyberattacks on several Philippine government websites purportedly from Chi…

MANILA: The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday said it has confiscated more than 3,300 loose firearms across the country and dismantled 18 criminal groups in operations from Jan. 1 to Feb. 2 this year.

In a press briefing at Camp Crame, Quezo…

MANILA: The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) called for heightened vigilance against adolescent pregnancies as it closely monitors the movement in numbers among young girls between 2021 and 2022.

In a news release on Monday, CPD executi…

SULTAN KUDARAT: Acting on a tip, police authorities arrested three persons here Sunday afternoon and seized from them a cargo truck loaded with some PHP2.7 million worth of smuggled cigarettes.

Lt. Col. Esmael Madin, municipal police station commande…