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AN official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) urged Filipinos waging Asia’s longest insurgency to lay down their arms. In a statement released by the Palace over the weekend, NTF-ELCAC Director Jose Descallar said that the 55 years of communist rebellion “only brought hardship,…

Hanna exits PAR but continuously enhances habagat

2 dead due to twin-typhoons enhancing habagat

PSA: Domestic trade in Philippines grows in volume but declines in value

The death toll from days of torrential rain spawned by typhoons Goring and Hanna that enhanced the southwest monsoon has climbed to two, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Sunday. One was reported missing.

THE average farmgate price of palay (unmilled rice) went up by 9.4 percent to P19.23 per kilogram (kg) in June, the government said.

The global illegal wildlife trade has been threatening the already endangered wildlife that may lead to their extinction. Palawan hornbill Closer to home, law enforcers are having a hard time catching the bad guys, who are openly offering online the illegally caught wildlife. With the use of the Internet, smartphones…

NEARLY half a million individuals have been displaced and almost half a billion pesos of agricultural products damaged due to the southwest monsoon enhanced by typhoons Goring and Hanna, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Saturday.

At least one person was killed, over 100,000 families affected and about P500 million worth of crops and infrastructure were damaged across seven regions in the country due to strong rains, according to the governments disaster agency.

THE National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Friday said it has received reports that one person was killed in Western Visayas as a result of the effects of the southwest monsoon enhanced by two weather disturbances, Tropical Cyclones Goring and Hanna.