For being a disaster-prone nation visited, on average, by 20 typhoons annually, the government claims to have some changes to its disaster risk reduction and management program by going into high technology.
President Rodrigo Duterte likened the peace process to playing a poker game with the release of the prisoners as his “last card”.
The progressive labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno in the Davao Region protest on Thursday to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III's "win-win solution" to end the practice of contractualization across the country.
Poor nutrition remains prevalent among children in this city, both government statistics and a church group here claimed.
When typhoon Bopha (locally known as Pablo) struck several provinces in Mindanao four years ago and super Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) devastated those in the Visayas three years ago, killing thousands and damaging billions of pesos worth of properties, the country’s disaster mitigation programs and relief efforts was put to a tight spotlight.