A partylist lawmaker is urging the officials of the Department of Transportation and Communication and the Philippine Atmospheric and Geographical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) to immediately sign the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the Free Mobile Disaster Alerts Act.
A 35-year-old man who was believed to have a mental illness killed his mother and grandmother on Monday morning.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development hired 200 workers to encode the Listahanan Survey, a database of poor households to identify beneficiaries of social protection services.
Lawyers handling the case of overseas Filipino worker Mary Jane Veloso said there is still no development on her indefinite reprieve.
Urban poor groups in Manila and relatives of victims will commemorate on Friday the 15th year of the landslide in Payatas landfill that claimed more than 300 lives of the urban poor in July 10, 2000.