ILOILO CITY: The 2024 Dinagyang Festival is a venue for Iloilo to showcase other major festivals, highlighting its claim as the festival capital of the Philippines.

Eric Divinagracia, artistic director of the festival, said the tribes’ competition on…

MANILA: The northeast monsoon or “amihan” affecting Northern Luzon will continue to bring rain showers across the island on Tuesday, the weather bureau said.

Moderate to heavy rains may be experienced over Cagayan Valley and flash floods or landslide…

MANILA: Both local shares and currency improved on Tuesday’s trading mirroring upbeat United States markets and supported by the rosy outlook of the Philippine business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index…

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has issued Executive Order No. 53 which reactivates and reconstitutes the Task Force El Niño.

In a statement on Monday, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said under EO 53 which was issued on Jan. 1…

LEGAZPI CITY: A total of 127,931 rice farmers in the Bicol region who are tilling up to 2 hectares of land each received PHP5,000 in cash assistance under the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) program of the regional agriculture office in 2023….

MANILA: The Sandiganbayan has cleared former Makati City Mayor Elenita Binay of graft and malversation charges arising from the procurement of PHP9.9 million worth of hospital equipment for the Ospital ng Makati (Osmak) in 2001.

In its decision, the …

MANILA: Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Tuesday categorically denounced allegations of unethical practices in the ongoing gathering of signatures for a People’s Initiative to amend the 1987 Constitution, saying such actions erode democratic foun…

MANILA: Four major groups of retired military generals on Monday said there is no truth to allegations of a destabilization plot against the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.

Twenty-two retired generals also reaffirmed their support t…