ILOILO CITY: The National Food Authority (NFA), whose function is to procure palay (unmilled rice) locally and maintain the optimal level of buffer stock, has become an importation entity, Sen. Maria Imelda Josefa Imee Marcos said on Friday, March 8.
MALOLOS CITY: Sen. Maria Imelda Josefa Imee Marcos, together with Mayor Christian Natividad and staff from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and City Social Welfare and Development Office in Central Luzon, distributed cash assistance to 2,000 beneficiaries here on Wednesday, February 28.
THE National Housing Authority (NHA) has distributed some P11 million worth of financial aid to 1,692 families whose houses were damaged by Typhoon Paeng in October 2022 in Laguna.
(UPDATE) THE United States embassy in the Philippines on Thursday confirmed the transfer of clean fuel from the US military facility in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii to a commercial storage facility in Subic Bay, Zambales.
FIVE hundred fifty families whose houses were totally damaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013 have been awarded with new places of shelter by the National Housing Authority (NHA) in Antique province.
THE Senate concurred with the Philippines ratification of the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention addressing violence and harassment in the workplace.
THE Senate and the House of Representatives ratified on Wednesday the bicameral conference committee report on the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers which reconciled the provisions of Senate Bill (SB) 2221 and House Bill (HB) 7325.
(UPDATE) Nine fighters of the extremist Daulah Islamiyah were killed as the military launched air and ground strikes on the group s suspected base in Maguindanao Friday.