MANILA: The universal social pension for senior citizens and the enhanced cybersecurity and data privacy measures for all government agencies receive the highest approval ratings among all national issues, a survey conducted by PUBLiCUS Asia Inc. rele…

BACOLOD CITY: The Negros Occidental provincial government is providing basic mobile phone units to barangay violence against women (BVAW) desk officers in all 601 villages of the province to boost response and referral of cases.

The first batch of re…

TACLOBAN CITY: The Northern Samar provincial government will be honored at the Presidential Awards for Outstanding MSMEs 2024 at Malacañang Palace in Manila on July 10.

The province will be awarded for being an outstanding development partner in the …

MANILA: The Philippines and Japan on Monday signed the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) that would facilitate mutual visits between Filipino and Japanese armed forces for training and joint exercises.

Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko and Defe…

MANILA: The Philippine National Police (PNP) has identified two dismissed police officers as the alleged masterminds in the killing of beauty pageant candidate Geneva Lopez and her Israeli boyfriend Yitzhak Cohen.

Ranking police officials and Departm…

MANILA: The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has turned down a tax claim for PHP165.25 million filed by an infotech company for being appealed out of time.

In a decision dated July 2, 2024 the tax court’s First division said HP PPS Philippines Inc. failed …

ANKARA: Lewis Hamilton beat Dutch Max Verstappen at the British Grand Prix, Round 12 of the 2024 Formula One World Championship, on Sunday to achieve his first F1 win after 945 days.

The 39-year-old Brit broke a new record by winning for the ninth ti…

MANILA: The Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden, commonly known as Manila Zoo, is not transferring elsewhere, city officials said Monday.

In a statement, Mayor Honey Lacuna said the city government has plans to make the facility at par with its So…