The Department of Transportation announced that it aims to install 400 kilometers of Bike Lanes nationwide this year. According to Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista, there are many benefits of cycling to the environment as well as to human health. The secretary made the statement after the groundbreaking ceremony of the expansion of bike lanes in…
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega reported that some Filipinos in Morocco refused to return to their apartments due to fear of aftershocks following the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit the country. In this regard, according to USec. De Vega, sent a group to address the situation of less than 20 Filipinos…
Super Typhoon Saola, which threatens to be the strongest typhoon to hit China’s southern cities in decades, is already approaching. Tens of millions of people in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other southern Chinese megacities have now stayed in their homes. While hundreds of flights were canceled across the region and the start of the school…
The Department of Health reported that more than 200 individuals have died from leptospirosis. Based on the latest data released by the DOH, since Jan. 1 to July 22, 2023, the number of deaths due to the said disease reached 233, which is higher compared to the recorded 201 death toll in the year 2022….
The number of people left dead by typhoon Egay continues to increase in our country. Based on the latest report released by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the number of reported deaths due to the said typhoon has now reached 30. According to the data, 15 of the reported fatalities were from…
Celebrity couple Diego Castro and Angela Lagunzad are married after 20 years of marriage and 10 years of being engaged. The unification of the two breasts was performed on May 12, 2023 at the House of XO in Horsehoe Village in Quezon City. The relatives and friends of the two attended the said ceremony. Also…
Speaker Martin Romualdez is confident that Filipinos will benefit from the good relationship established by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. during his official visit to Malaysia. Speaker Romualdez was part of the delegation of President Marcos and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos who were given a State Welcome Ceremony at the Istana Negara (Malaysia’s National Palace)….
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY FERDINAND R. MARCOS JR. PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES TO THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES [Delivered at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on July 24, 2023] Vice President Sara Z. Duterte; former presidents Joseph Ejercito Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; Senate…
US support for Ukraine has remained steadfast since Russia invaded. This was the message of US President Joe Biden after a personal meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when they both attended the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Lithuania. It added that a country cannot forcibly conquer its neighboring country. It also…
The Philippines marked 7 years since its legal victory against China before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in a territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea. In a statement, Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo described the country’s move to bring China to court as “the path of principle, the rule of law and the…