MANILA: Speaker Martin Romualdez on Tuesday called for the prompt and peaceful resolution to the recent seizure by Iranian authorities of a Portuguese-flagged container ship, which included four Filipino seafarers among its crew.

The MSC Aries was se…

LUNA: The rehabilitation of irrigation canals in Apayao will allow farmers to have a third cropping, increasing rice production in the province by an average of 1.8 million tons per season.

Governor Elias Bulut Jr. on Tuesday said the ongoing rehabil…

MANILA: Singapore warned that the escalation of tensions or military actions in the South China Sea (SCS) would disrupt trade and heavily impact decades worth of growth in the region, specifically among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) m…

ILOILO: The Department of Health (DOH) provided an initial 6,000 vials of the pentavalent vaccines to augment the ongoing pertussis outbreak response immunization of the city government here.

‘The vaccines we received came from Region 12, and they (D…

MANILA: A porter at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) turned over USD10,000 (about PHP570,000) which he found at the Terminal 1 arrival extension in Parañaque City over the weekend.

In a news release on Tuesday, the Manila International A…

ANTIPOLO: The Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO) of San Mateo town in the province of Rizal has assured that a resettlement area in Barangay Silangan has access to clean water through several artesian wells despite the declinin…

MANILA: The Philippines and Singapore are planning to form a working group that will discuss possible cooperation on carbon credit market, visiting Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said Tuesday.

In a joint press conference at Sofitel Ma…

TACLOBAN: The local government of Silago in Southern Leyte is proud of its achievement as the only area in Eastern Visayas recognized in the prestigious Tourism Champions Challenge (TCC) 2024.

Mayor Lemuel Honor said he is overjoyed for their third-p…