A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cross-border cooperation between the Lai Chau Economic Zone Management Board and the administration of Jinping district, China’s Yunnan province, was signed in the northern province of Lai Chau on July 30.

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MANILA: The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) aims to empower local government units (LGUs) and engage civil society organizations (CSOs) to contribute to good local governance through a five-year roadmap, an official said Tuesday…

MANILA: Kiyomi Watanabe suffered another first-round exit in the women’s 63-kilogram judo event at the Paris Olympics after losing to China’s Tang Jing at the Champ-De-Mars Arena in the French capital on Tuesday.

Tang needed just 51 seconds to submit…

MANILA: An assessment is underway to determine if there are families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have been affected by the recent massive floods that hit Metro Manila and nearby areas, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) sai…

LAOAG: When 34-year-old John Lei Ganiron opted to follow his dad’s footsteps as a farmer in the city of Batac instead of pushing a career in electrical and communications engineering, little did he know that more than five years later, he would become…

MANILA: Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel on Tuesday bared plans to assist fisherfolks in areas affected by the oil spill from the sunken motor tanker (MT) Terra Nova off Limay town, Bataan province.

In an ambush interview…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held talks with Josep Borrell Fontelles, Vice-President of the European Commission and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in Hanoi on July 30. The EC official is on an official vi…

MANILA: The producer price index (PPI) for manufacturing continued to decline in June this year but at a slower pace than the recorded contraction in May, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.

Data released by the PSA on Tuesday showed the …