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ALLOWANCE HIKE. Baguio City Vice Mayor Faustino Olowan, shown in this undated photo, wants the stipend under the city's educational assistant grant for poor but deserving students to be increased to PHP10,000 from PHP6,000 per semester so they could cope with the higher cost of living and education. He said Tuesday (July 26, 2022) an additional PHP20 million would be added to the 2023 fund if his proposal gets approved. (PNA file photo) BAGUIO CITY - Vice Mayor Faustino Olowan said Tuesday t...

ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Department of Agriculture in Zamboanga Peninsula (DA-9) and the Office of the City Veterinarian (OCVet) have tapped the assistance of the Barangay Information Officer Network (BION) to help contain the spread of the African swine fever (ASF) here. Dr. Amanel Manalo, of the Animal Health and Welfare Division Bureau of Animal Industry central office, reminded villages on the importance of reporting hog deaths so that authorities can confirm and institute needed protocols. &quo...

ISLAMABAD - A powerful earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and injured 610 in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Maulvi Sharafuddin Muslim, deputy minister of state for disaster management, said 1,000 people have so far been killed and over 610 wounded in the earthquake, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency quoted him as saying during a press conference in the capital Kabul. "At least 218 people have been killed and more than 300 injured in an earthquake in #Paktika's Gi...

INSPECTION. Lt. Virgilio Pagaduan Jr., chief of police of Meycauayan City Police Station, inspects the deployed personnel in different polling precincts on Wednesday night (May 4, 2022). The move was to ensure the security of vote counting machines and other election paraphernalia. (Photo courtesy of Maycauayan City PNP) MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan - The Commission of Elections (Comelec) provincial office here is ready for the upcoming national and local elections on Monday following the simultaneous ...