Local government agencies in Tagum held a fund-raising campaign to support the supplementary feeding programs of day care centers in the city.
Amidst the sea territorial tension between the Philippines and China, a labor group wants 16 Chinese experts working at the country’s National Grid Corporation of the Philippines be replaced by Filipino experts.
On the second month of the factory fire that claimed the lives of almost 100 workers, labor organizations said they want “war against contractualization.”
The Armed Forces has installed Lieutenant General Hernando Delfin Carmelo Iriberri as its new commanding general in a ceremony in Camp General Emillio Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Friday.
A network advocating children’s rights and administrators of tribal schools in Davao region held a dialogue on Thursday with the Commission on Human Rights to discuss the alleged military attacks on lumad schools and communities who are tagged as “NPA schools” by the Army.
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.
