Incoming Department of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol vowed to improve Samar province’s productivity and turn it to a model for the government’s intensified intervention to aid poor provinces.
Incumbent Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said that businessman, Carlos Dominguez, best fits the post as the incoming secretary of finance.
Police here arrested more violators of the tobacco ban here, as the task force on anti-smoking said there would be no letup in the vigilance to enforce it.
The country’s economy grew by 6.9 percent in the first quarter of 2016, the fastest in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and outpacing China for the first time in 27 years, the Department of Finance announced on Thursday, May 19.
The Department of Health (DOH) is targeting to vaccinate 84,167 senior citizens here as it launched its nationwide free vaccine against pneumonia on Wednesday, May 18.
Peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is now reminding president-elect Rodrigo Duterte of his promise to push for land reform.
Barangays that declared state of calamity here can already use their quick response fund (QRF) even if the city have not declared a state of calamity yet, the Davao City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DCDRRMO) said.
A year after the fire incident that killed over 72 workers in a slipper factory in Valenzuela City, labor activists reminded President-elect Rodrigo Duterte of his pronouncement on scrapping contractualization and voluntary labor law compliance of companies.
The camp of presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte presented its eight-point economic agenda on Thursday, May 12.
The City Health Office (CHO) reported a rapid increase in cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which lead to the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the city as of the first quarter of this year.
